Defalt

Unique adventure

Surprising quality and amount of details for a black and white comics. Backgrounds are often solid colour but this is compensated by a fantastic range of emotions and gestures from really distinct characters.

It also features an insane swarm of locusts, nasty and fascinating monsters and intriguing villain.

Looking forward to reading the next volume.

Riddle me this: where’s another Zero Year volume?

The art style is still nice with a lot of pink elements, cool panel layout and some scary episodes. Also smoke and rain look amazing.

Riddler proves to be even smarter with every appearance and the riddles get progressively more difficult. Also Gordon's character is very detailed and provides a new point of view from inside the police.

Still very confused about the scenes with a crossbow, though. And some flashbacks are a bit strange.

Sadly there’s no next volume, at least this one is really large compared to most other volumes.

Pink

Panel layout throughout the whole book is insane, especially in the beginning where the truck scene is shown from all possible angles on just two pages! Although the art style is pretty typical for comics and not very detailed.

Overall there are some really interesting features in this origin story, but the first villain is really not threatening, even tells his whole plan at one point.

Looking forward to reading the next volume.

Berserker

Miura's super detailed art really stands out in this edition!

Awesome, large scale battle against trolls where everyone uses some unique weapon and there are a lot of various close ups on troll faces showing all kinds of emotions. Ogre and kelpie look so nasty and weird. Also all kinds of water—rain, flood, river, spirits—look incredible. And the sea is really beautiful.

Again many various, new enemy designs after 25 volumes—crazy looking, animal shaped, extremely weird armour, giants, huge crystal dragon, demon knights, very nice armour with a lot of crescent elements. And there’s the astral world's cave filled with all kinds of eerie, terrifying stuff and a very creepy castle.

And we finally get the Berserker armour with a lot of full page panels and an incredible cape!

Interested to see how the story goes after this one.

Dark and action packed

Incredible, really detailed art featuring reflections in helmets and glasses, a lot of cool close ups on scary faces, amazing issues covers and great two page spreads. Also flashbacks are done in a different, very suitable art style.

And the story has a surprising amount of other DC characters and some cool twists with the villain. The ending is a bit too sudden.

Gotta read more Batman comics!

Fantastic Fantasy

It's just perfect—creative, colourful, hilarious, violent, epic, detailed, well-written, unpredictable, bright!

Can’t wait for the second compendium book!

Murderbot comes to the rescue

Again there are a few reminders about the events of the previous—now three—books, still not a fan of this.

The plot thickens but it's still not too deep or difficult to follow. Although all of the main character's actions are mostly familiar they still feel interesting because of different situations and environments and the action is pretty cool. Also there are a few personal, emotional conversations so I have to rate this one higher even considering the length.

And the ending is really nice!

Still can’t get enough of this series, and the novella size should make it fun to reread.

The duel

Again the art style and the atmosphere are fantastic. And I can’t get enough of one of its great qualities—each soldier's outfit looks different. Also there are a few very beautiful landscapes.

Starts pretty slow, but eventually presents some very brutal action scenes of every kind, especially the long and really intense duel. And we get some more interesting background about Thorffin's father and Thorkell.

But there are a bit too many reaction shots and an unusual philosophy about love, not sure if it is needed here at all.

The ending is nice leading to some big events.

Can't wait to read the next volume!

Where's Guts in this one?

Starts with a cool action scene, but then not a lot happens, too much time is spent on exploring the inquisition and heretics with a lot of horrifying, extremely violent inquisition torture scenes and heretics hunt so it becomes a bit less interesting to take in the art.

Detective Murderbot 2

The intro tells how our murderbot got into a new situation but overall it feels like a direct continuation of the previous book (if we just remove a little recap about some events). Again a lot of exploration in the first third but then the action starts very suddenly.

A few really nice features—the global plot thickens, cool and dangerous detective work, really heart breaking moments here, nice ending with a hint of what to expect next.

Can’t get enough of this series!

Inquisition

The commander character feels so weird after everything we've seen before. Horrifying fight in the night and not many events over all.

There are some more kingdom wide consequences and interesting foreshadowing about the hawk. Great art for some crazy armour and the gang of inquisitors. Guts finally gets some time to think and we get cool blacksmith's philosophy.

Insane boss fight

The black and white forests look really amazing and there are so many various, detailed armour sets, it's still very impressive. And the boss fight with a lot of dangerous and clever moments.

The start of the new chapter about Holy See who seem a bit too cliche.

Mysterious enemies

The fight in the forest against insects is a real horror episode. Beautiful landscapes and really interesting, slowly unraveling story about lost children.

Puck becomes too annoying and we see some consequences in the kingdom from Guts' actions.

Serious PTSD

Cool scene with the new gear and Guts is back in action against cool, unique monsters. Brand of sacrifice proves to be useful in some situations.

The start of the new arc and we see some wider consequences of the eclipse. Yeah, pretty vague, don’t want to write spoilers.

Dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

My first time reading a Lovecraft story and it’s still a good read, though a bit old fashioned—some investigations or written past events can be a bit hard to follow.

The black and white aesthetic and dark atmosphere really suit the story with great two-page panels of The Great Old Ones and their city, some really horrifying scenes and the fantastic looking storm at sea.

Can’t wait to read other adaptations of Gou Tanabe.

Frozen Madness

Really beautiful, mesmerizing snow landscapes and various, giant, frozen equipment and the caves look bizarre and really odd, though faces can look just a bit strange in some places. Fascinating mirages of an ancient city and old fashioned dialogues.

Too much time is spent on the exploration with no interesting results and a few scenes are not very detailed.

Interesting to see where the story goes next and how it ends!

It could be fun but it’s Marvel

The art is mostly nice with some really epic panels and interesting locations, though in some places it looks weird, especially the lightsaber trails in the air, and some fights are hard to follow.

The concept of Vader’s first mission is cool and there’s a nice scene where he makes a red lightsaber, but it’s over very quickly and characters talk too much—telling the reader some information, telling each other very obvious things or their motivation or what they think—, especially during fights.

Another bland project from Marvel.

Getting more hooked by the story

The art is still awesome, maybe even a bit better than in the first volume—great battles and duels, a lot of very nice landscapes.

The story also doesn’t loose the quality presenting Thorkell—super cool and intimidating—, some mystery with the prince and some part of Askelad's past. Overall it’s one dangerous event after another with no flashbacks this time. Also interesting to see what's happening with Thorfinn's family.

Can't wait to see what's next.

The origin of Winter Soldier

The writing by Ed Brubaker is great as usual of course, but the art is just okay with nothing interesting to look at and very hard to follow action scenes. Also it’s interesting to see some characters from the movies with different faces, although the cap looks funny to me.

And, as it usually happens with superhero comics, you need to know some additional characters who are connected to the cap from his earlier adventures.

I guess I'll continue looking for other Brubaker works elsewhere.

Spider mini adventures

A collection of short, fun, sometimes funny, very creative stories featuring a few spiders and a lot of villains (feels like every spider villain and a couple more).

The art is similar to double trouble comics, which suits these light adventures perfectly, and has some really nice scenes.

I should probably check out some other volumes in this series.

Cartoony Thor is kinda funny

The art is pretty nice, especially various and really cool Loki transformations. But the overall story is very simple—even compared to other double trouble comics—with a few fun character moments.

I hope we'll get another double trouble volume.

The Eclipse ends…

This can be traumatizing even for the reader.

Everything that happens during The Eclipse is really building up dread and horror inside. Some scenes are staying in my mind, I hope not for long. And again there's just too much unnecessary violence, especially towards Casca.

The ending has a feeling that no matter what you lost, no matter how hard it's to go on, you still can't give up.

I hope the situation gets a little better, but I need a break from this.

The Eclipse begins…

All the demons are just horrifyingly insane looking and so grotesque it’s hard to pull your eyes away from them. The art can't be better.

The whole Eclipse event is just shocking.

There’s nothing else to say, you just have to see it.

Immediately started the next one!

Demon Action

Finally we get some action against a demon and that fight is just wild, but basically it's just one long action episode with a lot of hints and foreshadowing about The Eclipse.

Of course the art is great, especially how the demon is shown, but some scenes just have too much unnecessary, gratuitous violence, even for Berserk.

Can't wait to see what's next!

Guts is back in action

There’s a lot here—some weird, demon stuff starts happening, interesting legend about the kingdom and the prison, action episodes against dozens of soldiers and a few unique eastern assassins with their unusual weapons, very cool emperor armour with a lot of small, unique details.

Also we learn a bit about Griffith's past and see how Guts thinks about life after some previous events.

So much anticipation for The Eclipse!