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dvo

meunierd@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

My wheelhouse is in fiction, especially comics. I enjoy genre fiction, and tend to lean towards horror, weird and science fiction. I enjoy reading about food, socialism, music, religions, and computing.

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started reading The Ring of the Nibelung, Vol. 1 by P. Craig Russell (The Ring of the Nibelung, #1)

P. Craig Russell: The Ring of the Nibelung, Vol. 1 (2002, Dark Horse) 4 stars

A multiple Eisner Award winner, P. Craig Russell's adaptation of the Ring cycle by German …

To anyone that wants to get into the opera, this is the perfect companion. P Craig Russell renders what a staging can only imply. You've got an English text to supplement listening to the opera. It's just such a good use of comics as a medium.

finished reading Brought to Light by Alan Moore

Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz, Martha Honey, Tony Avirgan, Joyce Brabner, Thomas Yeates: Brought to Light (Paperback, 1989, Eclipse Books) 5 stars

30 years of drug smuggling, arms deals and covert operations that robbed America and betrayed …

Sienkiewicz's art for Shadowplay speaks to my sensibilities but I really appreciate the realism of Yeates' contribution for the La Penca Bombing half. Great primer on American foreign interference.

Bernie Wrightson, Nicola Cuti, Bruce Jones, Howard Chaykin: Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson (2011) 5 stars

I'm reading this on Hoopla digitally and while I enjoy it, the digital reproduction of the original images is quite poor. You really want the fidelity for how detailed Wrightson's drawings are.

The stories themselves vary in quality. Nightfall as a twisted version of Little Nemo and Cool Air, adapting Lovecraft are both excellent. Any stories where men exact violence on women are generally weak as stories but still strong graphically.