Reading Recap, week 6
Some manga, some comics, and two novels
I wrote up a longer review script earlier this week for XENOS, so read it here if you’re interested.
I shall probably write up a longer review of this one for YouTube as well, so stay tuned. Like I said on Twitter, it’s FRICKIN’ weird, but cool.
This will get a quality video on the channel sometime, for now there’s a draft of a longer review at Upstream. I’m stoked to read the rest of this series about Vikings in the year 1,000. Vinland was their name for North America and some of them are planning on making longer excursions across the sea to find it.
Spent some time catching up on the Energon Universe comics, namely with DUKE #1 and #2, and COBRA COMMANDER #1. I thought TRANSFORMERS #5 was supposed to come out last week, but it’s up this week instead.
Duke’s 1st book was cool, the 2nd was much shorter and basically just set up a cliffhanger. The CC book started weird as hell but found its footing later on, and also ended on a cliffhanger connected to the Transformers book. So the pieces continue to stack and I’m enjoying it.
I also read issues 301-303 of “A Real American Hero” but honestly didn’t care for it, so I’m gonna have the LCS stop adding that one to my pull file.
I grabbed this off IndieGogo last fall, it was kind of okay. You can tell Ethan wrote it back in the day before he established the current continuity of CyberFrog. The humor is still really good, overall it’s kind of insubstantial. Weird that he charged as much as Eric July for a book the same size as one of Eric July’s, with more or less the same effort as Eric July, and then he spends a few weeks on YouTube harvesting superchats by bashing on Eric July.
It’s been a very annoying arc from where I’m sitting, especially because he’s late on another CyberFrog book that I backed. So. Yeah.
This week I’m reading Reacher #5, Land & Sea #5, Alatriste #3, and rereading Servants of War. I’m not taking up any new print reading until I finish the Nibley book that I started last year. Dense stuff, but powerfully good.