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subplotkudzu) wrote2009-08-07 11:00 am
subplotkudzu) wrote2009-08-07 11:00 am
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Books 64-66
64) Jack of Fables volume 2: The Los Vegas stroy arc, this was the best of the Jack collections that I've read. The book still suffers from hideous subplot kudzu, however, and I'm not sure this was strong enough for me to keep reading it.
65) The Authority volume 1: I finally own a copy of Warren Ellis 1999 "supers try to change the world" story, and it is as good as I remember. I almost bought volume 2, but I'm torn on it - Ellis only wrote the first of the two arcs in the second volume, the other penned by Mars "everything I touch turns into a festering turd" Millar. But the first volume is pure over the top mad wonderful ideas super-hero wierdness combined with serious thoughts about world changing.
66) The Illiad: Homer's other great epic, I didn't find this one as gripping as the Oddysey. It was much, much bloodier than I had expected, but gave a very good feel for a type of combat that Fantasy games could emulate, but usually don't. It's also clear that the various movie and TV adaptations of the material are written by people who have the level of familiarity that I had before reading it, who then use the story as a framework on which to superimpose their own contemporary biases. In other words, no actual Greek myth was accessed in the making of Wolfgang Peterson's _Troy_.
65) The Authority volume 1: I finally own a copy of Warren Ellis 1999 "supers try to change the world" story, and it is as good as I remember. I almost bought volume 2, but I'm torn on it - Ellis only wrote the first of the two arcs in the second volume, the other penned by Mars "everything I touch turns into a festering turd" Millar. But the first volume is pure over the top mad wonderful ideas super-hero wierdness combined with serious thoughts about world changing.
66) The Illiad: Homer's other great epic, I didn't find this one as gripping as the Oddysey. It was much, much bloodier than I had expected, but gave a very good feel for a type of combat that Fantasy games could emulate, but usually don't. It's also clear that the various movie and TV adaptations of the material are written by people who have the level of familiarity that I had before reading it, who then use the story as a framework on which to superimpose their own contemporary biases. In other words, no actual Greek myth was accessed in the making of Wolfgang Peterson's _Troy_.
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While I never read anything past the first Millar 4 issue arc I did see some of their later advertising, so the low point to me was the cover artwork that made sure you could identify the Engineer's vulva through her nano-skin as she generated clevage by hugging her overlarge breasts. My how the book had falled from the glory days.
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