![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
1. Fear Case by Matt Kindt (author) and Tyler & Hilary Jenkins (artists) - Ok. I did not get to clean my place like I wanted to do. I was all ready to get up and go around my apartment cleaning everything while listening to a GRRM "history of Westeros" book (aka maybe you won't hate me for not finishing Winds of Winter). Just as soon as I took a nap. And then the nap lasted longer and then my cat got really affectionate and I couldn't just disappoint the needy little bastard. Instead I put a bunch of books on eBay and managed to clean up the corner next to my right side on the couch. So that was a few hours of work and it does look less crappy next to me. Definitely, the crappy tableu on my right side is nice to be gone. Sadly there's also a desk/place for random junk in front of me and my damn laundry is all over the place again. Stupid laundry.
I say this as a preamble because...actually there really is no reason. I read this comic book last night. It's about 90 pages. It's about two secret service agents who have one year to find a macguffin, aka a brief case that passes from person to person with a note saying "give it to the person you hate because if you don't give it away in three days it will go to someone you love."
The strange part is that we never really know how the case works. Does owning it kill the people? Or do they have to open the thing. When they do open the thing, the artists have a great time drawing horrible things and tentacles but the story states that opening the case drives people so insane that they kill themselves. This is basically the ending. The one agent gets the case from the guy he's chasing who erroneously thinks that he's immigration and opens it. And shoots himself in the head.
The other agent ends up with the case (because that's the person he loves? I don't really get that these two are anything more than friendly co-workers except for an exchange of gifts including opera tickets and no one else to go to the opera with). He gives it to the agency and they open it with a robot and everyone who witnesses the opening is dead. Trump is in the final montage next to the Nazis which I guess makes sense. Weird how the 2021 publication date feels dated already. I mean granted, maybe Trump is still a threat to democracy and he certainly seemed like a fascist dictator in the making. Yet his coup failed and he may very well end up in jail.
And all the dumbshits who ran on a platform of sucking Trump's dick so hard they can't do math lost. Or most of them lost. Seriously the voters came out to make them lose.
Meanwhile the dumbfuck who smokes pot outside my building believes in so many conspiracy theories that he thinks that George Soros is running all the voting machines. So why vote? Also he's a total dumbfuck. Sadly he wasn't around when I had covid. I would have really wanted to cough on him.
So this is a slight book. Usually with graphic novels, I want to review more substantial graphic novels for this little experiment. At least longer than 4-5 issues of collected newstand comics (like the New Mutants comic I read in which none of the characters changed substantially since the 1980s when I read these things. Even if I had read it this week instead of last week, I wouldn't have reviewed it) but I think this one has enough interesting art and things to talk about to warrant an entry.
Also it's kind of fun to have read the first book by January 3. I don't think I ever did that before. And last time I was reviewing books, I was reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, unabridged, which means that it didn't even get to the Goths and there was a lot of boring shit about Christian in-fighting (and some interesting stuff. Like I didn't know that the Arius followers were originally in charge).
I say this as a preamble because...actually there really is no reason. I read this comic book last night. It's about 90 pages. It's about two secret service agents who have one year to find a macguffin, aka a brief case that passes from person to person with a note saying "give it to the person you hate because if you don't give it away in three days it will go to someone you love."
The strange part is that we never really know how the case works. Does owning it kill the people? Or do they have to open the thing. When they do open the thing, the artists have a great time drawing horrible things and tentacles but the story states that opening the case drives people so insane that they kill themselves. This is basically the ending. The one agent gets the case from the guy he's chasing who erroneously thinks that he's immigration and opens it. And shoots himself in the head.
The other agent ends up with the case (because that's the person he loves? I don't really get that these two are anything more than friendly co-workers except for an exchange of gifts including opera tickets and no one else to go to the opera with). He gives it to the agency and they open it with a robot and everyone who witnesses the opening is dead. Trump is in the final montage next to the Nazis which I guess makes sense. Weird how the 2021 publication date feels dated already. I mean granted, maybe Trump is still a threat to democracy and he certainly seemed like a fascist dictator in the making. Yet his coup failed and he may very well end up in jail.
And all the dumbshits who ran on a platform of sucking Trump's dick so hard they can't do math lost. Or most of them lost. Seriously the voters came out to make them lose.
Meanwhile the dumbfuck who smokes pot outside my building believes in so many conspiracy theories that he thinks that George Soros is running all the voting machines. So why vote? Also he's a total dumbfuck. Sadly he wasn't around when I had covid. I would have really wanted to cough on him.
So this is a slight book. Usually with graphic novels, I want to review more substantial graphic novels for this little experiment. At least longer than 4-5 issues of collected newstand comics (like the New Mutants comic I read in which none of the characters changed substantially since the 1980s when I read these things. Even if I had read it this week instead of last week, I wouldn't have reviewed it) but I think this one has enough interesting art and things to talk about to warrant an entry.
Also it's kind of fun to have read the first book by January 3. I don't think I ever did that before. And last time I was reviewing books, I was reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, unabridged, which means that it didn't even get to the Goths and there was a lot of boring shit about Christian in-fighting (and some interesting stuff. Like I didn't know that the Arius followers were originally in charge).
Tags:
