hello
i have been spending money on books lately, so now i am going to talk about them
also i hate reviews that tell you the whole fucking story of the subject matter TITANIC (1997) it sinks jack dies the water's really cold so i try to avoid this but you know, maybe spoilers a little bit, just a heads-up!!
ARKHAM ASLYUM: A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH
this book is really good, and it is also about the batman so it's also really good
for those of you who don't know anything about the batman, he fights crime with fear and a big cloak and there have been some movies made about him recently that were good. arkham asylum is where the cops send all his enemies because they're all criminally insane and it is a pretty spooky place!
on april 1st, the joker stages a coup and takes over the asylum, releasing the inmates and letting them run wild, making all sorts of crazy demands to the police. their final demand to secure the safety of hostages held within is that the batman enters the asylum. what follows is a really fuggin excellently written pair of stories perfectly interwoven -- batman's descent into near-madness in the asylum as he is forced to face his own inner demons, and simultaneously the origin story of arkham asylum: of its founder amadeus arkham, his conversion of his house into the asylum and his own descent into madness
it's dark, it's gritty, and the claustrophobia of true madness is actually palpable. the art is second to none, featuring pages and pages of beautiful, spooky, and at times photo-realistic paintings by dave mckean. grant morrison succeeds wholly in plotting the dual stories against one another, allowing them to veer into each other's paths and cross over and mirror one another poignantly and oh my goodness. whilst the resolution of the practical side of the story is quite simple, it doesn't hold the story back from being disturbing, compelling and brilliantly gripping. read this book!
WE3
this cover is actually the cover my copy has only the quotes from newspapers on mine are better lol these ones are bad
anyway oh my goodness!
this book is about three former household pets that go missing and are actually experimented on by the government to be cybernetically enhanced crazy military weapons!! woah! but no matter what impression that gave you of this book, it is probably inaccurate
a review on the front of my copy by the observer describes it as "Instantly provocative... Watership Down meets Japanese mecha... as heart-tugging as anything in popfiction.." and those two dots in that ellipsis are like [sic] or whatever why do people do that. anyway i think that's a pretty accurate description, but the whole thing is probably still pretty confusing!!
so these animals escape government land and WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT things don't go very well. in their search for food and home and all those animal things all sorts of shit goes down, and this book will probably break your heart in at least three places. but it is supposed to so that's good
this is grant morrison again, but there is obv a lot less dialogue because this book is about animals and animals can't talk although actually these animals actually can talk a little bit. anyway the way he expertly portrays conflicts of interest and communication and emotion between these three animals with just monosyllabic stunted robospeak is brilliant but it is also v v sad. human dialogue does feature, though i actually think the whole book could have been done with no dialogue at all and it would have been just as powerful maybe
the art is by frank quietly and it is suitably balanced between comic book dynamism and the gritty realism necessary to have the plight of these poor little beasties fuck you up
the book is very short, and my only veryyveryvery slight disappointment is the nature of the ending. i would still recommend you read it though because it is really powerful and masterfully executed and oh man these poor animals you've just gotta read this book
oh also in between segments there are like these adorably written wanted posters for the animals by their previous owners oh my god you have to read this book
OKAY next time i am gonna be reviewing: eight zillion more batman books (frank miller) and also maybe maus maybe because i am gonna do loads of mainstream stuff and then im gonna do some weird stuff
oh here's a quick review of
CIVIL WAR
it wasn't very good
i have been spending money on books lately, so now i am going to talk about them
also i hate reviews that tell you the whole fucking story of the subject matter TITANIC (1997) it sinks jack dies the water's really cold so i try to avoid this but you know, maybe spoilers a little bit, just a heads-up!!
ARKHAM ASLYUM: A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH
this book is really good, and it is also about the batman so it's also really good
for those of you who don't know anything about the batman, he fights crime with fear and a big cloak and there have been some movies made about him recently that were good. arkham asylum is where the cops send all his enemies because they're all criminally insane and it is a pretty spooky place!
on april 1st, the joker stages a coup and takes over the asylum, releasing the inmates and letting them run wild, making all sorts of crazy demands to the police. their final demand to secure the safety of hostages held within is that the batman enters the asylum. what follows is a really fuggin excellently written pair of stories perfectly interwoven -- batman's descent into near-madness in the asylum as he is forced to face his own inner demons, and simultaneously the origin story of arkham asylum: of its founder amadeus arkham, his conversion of his house into the asylum and his own descent into madness
it's dark, it's gritty, and the claustrophobia of true madness is actually palpable. the art is second to none, featuring pages and pages of beautiful, spooky, and at times photo-realistic paintings by dave mckean. grant morrison succeeds wholly in plotting the dual stories against one another, allowing them to veer into each other's paths and cross over and mirror one another poignantly and oh my goodness. whilst the resolution of the practical side of the story is quite simple, it doesn't hold the story back from being disturbing, compelling and brilliantly gripping. read this book!
WE3
this cover is actually the cover my copy has only the quotes from newspapers on mine are better lol these ones are bad
anyway oh my goodness!
this book is about three former household pets that go missing and are actually experimented on by the government to be cybernetically enhanced crazy military weapons!! woah! but no matter what impression that gave you of this book, it is probably inaccurate
a review on the front of my copy by the observer describes it as "Instantly provocative... Watership Down meets Japanese mecha... as heart-tugging as anything in popfiction.." and those two dots in that ellipsis are like [sic] or whatever why do people do that. anyway i think that's a pretty accurate description, but the whole thing is probably still pretty confusing!!
so these animals escape government land and WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT things don't go very well. in their search for food and home and all those animal things all sorts of shit goes down, and this book will probably break your heart in at least three places. but it is supposed to so that's good
this is grant morrison again, but there is obv a lot less dialogue because this book is about animals and animals can't talk although actually these animals actually can talk a little bit. anyway the way he expertly portrays conflicts of interest and communication and emotion between these three animals with just monosyllabic stunted robospeak is brilliant but it is also v v sad. human dialogue does feature, though i actually think the whole book could have been done with no dialogue at all and it would have been just as powerful maybe
the art is by frank quietly and it is suitably balanced between comic book dynamism and the gritty realism necessary to have the plight of these poor little beasties fuck you up
the book is very short, and my only veryyveryvery slight disappointment is the nature of the ending. i would still recommend you read it though because it is really powerful and masterfully executed and oh man these poor animals you've just gotta read this book
oh also in between segments there are like these adorably written wanted posters for the animals by their previous owners oh my god you have to read this book
OKAY next time i am gonna be reviewing: eight zillion more batman books (frank miller) and also maybe maus maybe because i am gonna do loads of mainstream stuff and then im gonna do some weird stuff
oh here's a quick review of
CIVIL WAR
it wasn't very good
