Is Goong cancelled?! NOOOOOOO!!! Yen, don't do this to me.
b 13th Boy 12:
Oh, our crazy anthropomorphic, fried-chicken loving cactus may have made the ultimate sacrifice, but that doesn't guarantee a happy ever after for the characters who remain. The characters stayed true to themselves, so I was pleased even as I wanted to kick some of them in the head. The happy ending was earned, and a bonus story shows that some of the other characters may be in for happy endings of their own. Except for the cactus. I cried about the cactus.b Blood+ Kowloon Nights:
Dark Horse, sometimes you really baffle me with the things that you publish. I mean, I'm a big fan of Hagi, and I was pretty curious about what he was doing when Saya slept, but this book didn't really add anything new to his character. Good thing he's a pretty good character anyway. b Dogs: Bullets and Carnage 6: No idea where I last left off this story in volume 5. It's been a long time. Pretty quickly, I don't care because we get some of that clear back-story for Heine, and it's about as brutal as I expected. Wow. Don't make deals with the devil in any of his incarnations, dude. Bad things happen. Now Giovanni makes more sense, too. This series is probably still more focused on style than substance, so it's good that the style it has is enough to keep me reading despite the sword-fights, bullets, and extreme carnage that earn this bad boy its M rating.
b Gon 6: In this volume, Gon helps out some baby birds, helps an ancient elephant make it to his final resting place of choice, and climbs a mountain in a howling blizzard just because it's there, and he's a badass little dinosaur who can do anything he sets his mind to. He does other things, and this wordless comic still amuses me to no end. Oh, Gon, I will be sad when you are over with the next volume, but I will re-read you.
b Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries 1:
This was really a lot of fun for the part of me that likes Sherlock Holmes mysteries and people bucking the class system. He was a street urchin who rose through the ranks to become a famous lawyer and then gave it up to become her butler. She's a woman of noble-birth with a penchant for writing mystery stories and solving real-life mysteries when she can get the chance. They both have ways of obtaining information to help solve cases that the other lacks. He loves her; she still sees him as an annoying childhood friend. It's all rather gruesome (the murder mystery) and delightful (the character interactions).b Sakura Hime
3-4: More bad things happen; some things are made clearer; other things are obscured. Character revelations are made, and they are more than a little horrifying. It reminds me a bit of the anime Strain where by the end I was pretty sure I sided with the folks who just wanted to blow all of humanity away. I am not totally on the side of the poor, beleaguered, butt-kicking non-humans, but I completely understand where their boss is coming from. Good thing Sakura is made of stern shojo stuff.b Toradora 4: Ah, the pool bits. Hilarious and horrifying in equal measures. We get some insight into the minds of boys during pool classes (and their own body-conscious worries). And I did find out what vale tudo is. You can, too, if you Google it.
b A Zoo in Winter by Jiro Taniguchi: Wow. There is something solid and quiet and calm about his art style in this that somehow prevents any of the drama from seeming like melodrama (even when it sort of is). They get away with lines that would induce eye-rolls because they are serious about this stuff, and they probably did talk like that, and it's all kind of fascinating. And then it just sort of . . .stops. It doesn't really end because that implies some sort of wrap-up of some kind. It just stopped, and I wanted to read more.
"Maybe this place is haunted because there's something mysterious that possesses people in places of creation." 66
"Doing what you love for work. Sounds idyllic!"
"They say you can't do this if you don't love it."
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