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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are facing off in a cage fight, which I'm sure was in no way designed to distract the casual viewer from the news that Facebook and Instagram are limiting new services to Canada. Can we maybe just lock the cage door behind them and all agree to walk away and perhaps seal the Thunderdome up behind us?
Elton John headlined at Glastonbury, giving his last live concert in Britain as part of his farewell tour. A two hour rock gig with 22 songs at the age of 76 is quite the achievement!Sad news from TV-land, that "Star Trek: Prodigy" is cancelled and will be removed (possibly imminently) from Paramount Plus, along with other shows like "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" in advance of their merger with Showtime. ST:P's ending is especially frustrating that Season 2 is in post-production. One hopes they will shop it to another broadcaster.
On the other hand: "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" had it's most powerful episode yet (and perhaps in any recent Trek), confronting the Federations deep rooted prejudices against genetic modification, as Number One faces court martial for the crime of concealing her identity as an Illyrian, in a story rife with sadly timely parallel's to transphobia, homophobia, misogyny and racism. It was as subtle as a sledgehammer, but it didn't NEED to be subtle, it needed to be strong, and clear, and it was throughout. (And good lord some of the reactions to it from those who predictably, have apparently not realised that Star Trek was "woke" from the moment it featured a black woman and a Russian as a Bridge Officers in the 1960s... sigh).
Horror podcast "Shadows at the Door" has started season 3, and I had one of those moments where I thought "Gosh, this voice actor must be a Doctor Who fan because they are really laying on the Sacha Dawan Master vibes!" only to discover, of course, that it actually WAS Sacha Dawan!
And archaeologists in Germany have found a simply GORGEOUS bronze sword
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Date: 2023-06-27 10:32 am (UTC)What the fuck was the circus on Saturday I do not know, but even threat of civil war will not stop the Russian army from commiting crimes against humanity.
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Date: 2023-06-28 12:08 am (UTC)A moment of silence for the El Muerto movie
Date: 2023-06-27 10:47 am (UTC)Still trying to adjust to the new routine …which is mostly the old routine but slightly more difficult. Also, some very nice ladies beat me up a couple times a week.
(A dominatrix might be cheaper)
As far as current events go, I live in hope of seeing good things happen to good people but I guess I’ll settle for bad things happening to bad people.
Please don’t take this as an endorsement of Zuckerberg but I find it interesting that news of the fight was immediately followed by noted human trafficker, Andrew Tate, running to Musk’s aid. Also, apparently this fight between “self-made billionaires” has been called off by Musk’s mom.
Using AI “art” for the Secret Invasion intro shows a level of confidence in their legal team that seems cocky even for Disney.
(Also, I guess AI “art” is getting exponentially worse because the existing AI garbage has become so ubiquitous that its tainted the training data)
New season of Dragon Prince next month. I hope its better than the last one.
The lost episode of Helluva Boss just dropped. The HB announcement reminded me that I never got around to watching the last episode so this has been a lot of Loona and Blitzo content for the weekend.
I finished Muppets Mayhem and it gets a LOT better from the second episode on. The human POV character exists to bounce off the existing Muppets and not to prop up someone’s Muppet OC so it’s a big improvement over the last couple movies. I think this is the first time I’ve seen Floyd as a character and not as a sarcasm delivery device.
I noticed Hulu had more of the Spy x Family dub so I watched the Bond arc last night. It seems the anime sure … made some choices. I don’t remember the spy dogs looking like human bodybuilders in the manga.
With what seems to be a leading contender for game of the year finally here (hint: I’m not talking about “Everybody 1-2-Switch!”) upon us and little to nothing on the horizon, I was really starting to think this would be the Switch’s last year. Then last week Nintendo announced a ton of first party games for late 2023 and TBD/2024. I’m especially looking forward to the new 2D Mario…though I’m just now finding out there’s a lot of online hostility toward the excellent “New Super Mario” 2D games*. The price tag on the Super Mario RPG remake seems a bit much but, well, that IS Nintendo after all.
*I haven’t been this surprised since I found out the internet hivemind hates Ghostbusters 2.
(Still no mention of Metroid Prime 4.)
I haven’t read much in the past couple weeks but here are some comics I neglected to mention from earlier this month.
The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck vol 1 is every bit as good as its reputation.
Radical: My Year With A Socialist Senator has a cartoonist shadowing a freshman New York lawmaker and her staff.
Cosmoknights is a lesbian mech gladiator series and I feel like that description might grab some of you.
Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble has the pair as Old Couple roommates and is mostly saved by the Gurihiru art.
Speaking of being saved by the art … I feel like I should like Adventureman more than I do. Maybe the story gets better in later volumes.
Marvel Unlimited customer support is awful. Last week they said they fixed the problem that I’ve been trying to get them to fix for a month now. They did not. Yesterday they responded with “Comixology purchases will not be transferring over to MU, but will still be available on their platform” even though their website literally says “Additionally, if your Marvel account is synced to a Comixology account, your synced Comixology/Amazon purchases of Marvel digital comics will be available in your purchase library on Marvel Unlimited by June 9, 2023 as well.”
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/update-on-digital-comics-with-marvel-unlimited?linkId=217956526
RE Snap:
https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/marvel-snap/marvel-snap-introduces-new-stan-lee-card-that-takes-credit-for-everything-your-other-cards-did/
Brutal.
Unlocks:
Classic Beast Variant: Season Pass (free). I think I sort of said everything I wanted to say about Beast as a character when I got the Grey Variant. As a card … well Bounce decks are annoying but Beast seems to be the only card from that archetype they’ve actually tried to nerf.
Pixel Punisher Variant: Season Pass (free). This one is particularly annoying because it’s the first time I ran into a Conquest bug that undoes Season Pass progress…so I had to earn this terrible card twice.
Ghost Spider 2099 Variant: Season Pass (paid). Amazing Bengal art. I’m not really familiar with this version of the character though and all I could find is that the image had been a variant cover from one of Gwen’s solo comics so she might not be an actual character.
Aero Coax Variant – The Festival of Flight Bundle is good. I was starting to wonder if they were allowed to make good bundled that aren’t 20+ bucks (or gold equivalent).
I have enough resources from Conquest to get the “Carnageized” (really, THAT’s what they’re calling it?) Green Goblin Variant but I’m going to see how many medals I have after I use my one Infinity ticket before deciding on the ninth reward. The fact that the game punishes you for playing the ladder on weekends (or completing certain quests there) means I’ve put a lot of time info Conquest even though I still find it a little underwhelming.
The Thursday patch really only nerfed Doom and made some other cards better. Apparently, Victor is the most played six-cost card so I’d surprised it took them this long (even if I’m one of those people that loves Doom).
Most of the buffs seem related to previous nerfs again. Red Skull is almost back to his old self now that they’ve finally dealt with Shuri. Nimrod got a slight boost now that they’ve changed Galactus (though I still question how much of a “nerf” that was).
(Also, RIP another hypothetical Cerebro Five deck. Nimrod is six power and Doombots are only four now)
Nick Fury is cheaper …though still not as interesting as Phil. Still, I could see him working really well in a discard deck if you go “Fury, MODOK, Hela” in the second half of the game.
(Apparently this will be the last patch before the July 11 series drop so there’s unlikely to be any meta shakeups soon unless Spidey 2099 turns out to be at least half as disruptive as Spider-Ham seems to be. Still really hoping for a Summer Variant Rush then. Or at least more than one card entering pool three)
Upcoming changes to Caches/Reserves …
https://www.marvelsnap.com/newsdetail?id=7235832976142015238
…have me wondering if I should open mine now or wait. Broadly speaking, I think it means it will be easier to complete pool 3 and get pool 4-5 cards but harder to get tokens to get specific pool 4-5 cards. And there will be less credits. And no gold.
I was interested in the upcoming Black Panther “Cosmic Wildfire” bundle but that’s 7500 gold. Considering the current system gives you about 20 gold per Reserve, I’d need to open over 90 to get there and I have about 70 currently so that’s cutting it close if I get there at all in two weeks.
Maybe I’ll just try for Miguel this week and stop when I hit 6000 tokens. At least the tokens seem achievable.
I guess it depends on if the “big bads” (the reason I’m trying to get tokens in the first place) are part of the weekly spotlights.
(I do think its super funny that they later clarified that the “Premium Variants” in the new Spotlight Caches could be any variant except for the Pixel ones)
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Date: 2023-06-27 11:44 am (UTC)Re: A moment of silence for the El Muerto movie
Date: 2023-06-27 04:32 pm (UTC)Red One is also Not Good, but it is enjoyable nonsense,
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Date: 2023-06-27 06:05 pm (UTC)I used token to get Spider-Ham. It's not reasonable at all, but I just couldn't wait to have the pleasure to turn Big G into a pig, at least once.
I guess I'll have to wait more for Hit-Monkey, since I'm beginning to save tokens for Dani now. I don't care what she does, any New Mutants card is a top priority.
I wanted to use the conquest mode in order to keep playing without falling too much in the ranking, but I find myself bored very fast when I play the same deck against the same opponent again and again and again. So I snap all the time, but the other player usually doesn't, unless they are likely to win.
I'm still trying to build some deck with Dazzler, Mojo and now Shanna. Not great, but way less terrible than I thought.
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Date: 2023-06-27 10:56 am (UTC)Posting separately because it doesn’t really fit with everything else.
I’ve missed doing dumb gimmick posts (I don’t think I’ve done one since the holiday special commentaries) and inspiration struck me when I saw a RightStuf having a sale on nerd cookbooks last weekend.
The whole “food based on a fictional universe” thing is bizarre to me because I assume a lot of the dishes are literally impossible to make on account of some of the ingredients not being real. Also, if it’s based on an older civilization, I figure spices are harder to get and the food tastes pretty bland.
Anyway, I decided to do some mini commentaries on what I think some of the books are about despite not actually having read them.
Avatar The Last Airbender The Official Cookbook – I assume the Air Nomad food is vegan, the Water Tribe diet is mostly fish-based, and the rest of the book has some really interesting meat combinations inspired by Chinese (Earth) and Japanese (Fire) food. Also, there HAS to be something about tea, right?
My Pokemon Cookbook – Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! What? I’m not going to talk about eating Pokemon … no matter how delicious Vanillite looks.
The Unofficial Ghibli Cookbook – 10/10. Ghibli food looks amazing. I would end up like the parents in Spirited Away.
The Unofficial Zelda Cookbook – I have to say Breath of the Wild really redeemed the idea of Zelda food. Otherwise, I would have dismissed it because of all the squash and fish-based recipes and my previously mentioned concern over the lack of spices in a medieval fantasy setting. Also, any chicken dishes seem like they’d be really dangerous to make.
Street Fighter The Official Street Food Cookbook – This seems like an amazing idea. They could spotlight a vast variety of foods from around the world. Worst case scenario: the dishes are a bit stereotypical and don’t come off as authentic to their place of origin.
The Ultimate Final Fantasy XIV Cookbook – I’m more of a Dragon Quest guy. Chocobos are basically giant chickens, right?
Disney Bento Fun Recipes for Bento Boxes – 0/10. I can’t think of a single iconic Disney character I would want to eat.
(I assume the Pokemon and Disney books are actually about making decorative foods in the shape of the characters)
Honorable mention to Cassandra Reeder’s The Geeky Chef Cookbook: Real-Life Recipes for Fantasy Foods. I haven’t made anything from it but I did flip through the ebook while I was recovering from surgery last month. There’s some fun commentary in there…which isn’t something I normally appreciate in a recipe.
PS: How the heck is there no Food Wars cookbook in English? I know some of the generic anime/manga cookbooks that I’m not commenting on have recipes from there but this series feels like its begging for a dedicated book.
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Date: 2023-06-27 04:35 pm (UTC)Re: Cookin’ By the Book
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Date: 2023-06-27 11:27 am (UTC)The family celebration was on Sunday, with a number of cancellations but my blood siblings made it. We had rhubarb spice cake, and my sister gave me a bespoke Star Wars dress shirt.
Work continues to be work. Once again, I beg that if you want another person to speak on your behalf, get them authorized to do so in advance of your getting sick.
Marvel Puzzlequest had a Pride Month prize area this month, though new chase character Moondragon still is not unlocked for me. There's a Skrull Invasion prize area, but no actual event yet.
Over at my blog, I review a science fiction rarity: https://www.skjam.com/2023/06/26/book-review-the-invaders-alien-missile-threat/
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Date: 2023-06-27 06:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2023-06-27 11:33 am (UTC)Secret Invasion intro was uuuugleh. Thought to myself "wow that's a fail, it actually looks like AI vomit" but no, they actually fucking did it. And then the episode didn't do much for me either :/
That sword is such a banger.
And I'm very happy we get more Wheel of Time in September \o/
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Date: 2023-06-27 03:38 pm (UTC)"Hey, we're making our platform less valuable. But don't worry, its also more expensive"
The streaming services are really rushing in that race to the bottom, aren't they?
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Date: 2023-06-27 11:40 am (UTC)The asshole who claimed our dog attacked his has not only been spreading rumours about the neighbourhood, he's also gone to the police claiming our dog attacked him. Which is odd given he didn't mention anything about this at the time.
(Though apparently one of the people he tried gossiping to has already met our non-confrontational arthritic marshmallow of a dog, and came away with the conclusion that this guy was just an arsehole.
There are words I'd use, but they'd either break the guidelines, or aren't angrily invective enough.)
Actually getting worried that he might escalate to putting stuff through the letterbox, if he finds out where we live...
Been having a lot of thoughts about the local comic shop the last few... well, months now.
There's two of them, right? One where the staff are friendly but the organisation is... ... ... not all it could be in some areas (mainly how their shelves are arranged, which is slightly haphazard.)
And the other... perfectly organised, but...
... there's this one person, right? And I don't know if it's just a simple case of severely misreading stuff and getting into a paranoid obsessive spiral, but there's this one person, and they are always there.
Been going to that shop pretty much every week since it opened, so it's not like I'm not a regular sight. The staff are perfectly fine and polite.
And I'm like, 60% / 70% sure they don't actually have some sort of thing going on, not least because deliberately having something against a recurring customer at a shop which doesn't get high foot traffic as is would be bloody stupid, and this is just paranoia seizing the wheel and refusing to let go.
And going at a different time, seeing if they might just keep different hours is a no-go, because if you don't go get the comics on the day they come out, they won't be there later. (And ordering off the internet is an even bigger hassle.)
So it's the difficult decision of deciding to just not go there any more, see if that de-stresses things.
Ugh.
Uuuuuggghh.
Was planning on having a nice, relaxing mini-holiday when I found out the Tivo box is on the blink, so half the things I thought it had been recording either came out a garbled, static-y mess, cut to pieces because it only recorded a chunk of it, or just hadn't been recording at all.
Cursed modern technology.
Also it turns out the dog has a fondness for strawberries. Wild or home grown, they're popcorn to him. He's a strawberry fiend.
The first episode of Secret Invasion came out!
It was... grim, ponderous, and has two examples of fridging.
So naturally, like Andor, there's people celebrating how grim and edgy and "mature" it is.
Olivia Colman was doing a bit of scene stealing.
Heard good things about Strange New Worlds, but aside from not having any of the streaming services that carry it, not interested until it gets to the Lower Decks crossover.
Which, by the looks of it, isn't for several weeks.
Boo.
Caught a bit of that Dragons Rising.
Interesting, and the return to the twenty five minutes is nice.
(Eleven minutes an episode does make for slightly more digestible binging, but it did mean less room for the story to breath.
And I know it's part of the premise, new cast and all that, but it is kind of odd that all the old supporting cast have been Chuck Cunningham'd.
Are they dead? Alive? Stuck in a jar somewhere? Wandering around looking for everyone else?)
And it's the first time in days it's not been hideously warm and sunny. Good for the garden, and frankly good in general. 's not much fun stepping outside in the morning and feeling like you've stepped into an oven...
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Date: 2023-06-27 01:51 pm (UTC)Which unfortunately means it’s airing after my subscription cancellation finally goes through. If they want to start airing Prodigy again they know where to find me
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Date: 2023-06-27 12:16 pm (UTC)New manga titles on my list:
Catch These Hands! Yuri romance in which a former delinquent bumps in to her old rival. The rival challenges her to one last fight. If the rival wins, they have to go on a date.
Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Cheat Powers. Generic isekao #327.
Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated As My Gag Character?! Gamer gets reincarnated into his MMO character. Get this, the character is female. Lol.
I also read the first volume of Berserk. It wasn't quite as grim as I was led to believe. Everything else is going to feel tame compared to Chainsaw Man.
Another new title I enjoyed was Crazy Food Truck. Mysterious guy drives a dood rruck around a post-apocalyptic waste land. One day he finds a naked lady in a sleeping bag in the middle of the road. Wackiness ensues.
Marvels trades on my list:
Immortal Iron Fist: The Complete Collection. Something about a fighting competition between the champions of other mystic cities, of I remember correctly.
Iron Man: Heroes Return- The Complete Collection. It’s Kurt Busiek. 'Nuff said.
Spider-Man: The Gauntlet- The Complete Collection. Something stopped the Juggernautt! Or is that in the second volume?
Thor by J. Michael Straczynski. I just wamt to see Thor smiting Iron Man for his actions during Civil War again.
Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection. Bleh-bleh-bleh!
USAvengers. ALL THE AL EWING THINGS!?
I am going to that London on Saturday. My top priority is the food at Camden Market. My secondaty objective is getting a waifu statue to put on my window sill. Or that Nightwing booty statue.
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Date: 2023-06-27 03:02 pm (UTC)But so much of it was taken up by Secret Empire (*pittup*).
Still, Ewing managed to sneak in some good character stuff for Toni.
And, of course, the Asterix reference.
(oh, and more of Dani Cage Cap.)
-Nightwing booty statue-
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Oh dear. Suddenly there's this strange image of a statue which is literally just Dick's butt.
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Date: 2023-06-27 02:06 pm (UTC)From what I can tell everyone involved in Shadows at the Door is a huge Doctor Who fan.
Saw Asteroid City this weekend. Enjoyable but deeply weird comedy. Could’ve done without the framing device but I completely understand why Wes Anderson went with it.
Skybound has been teasing out the members of the Autobots and Decepticons that they’ll be using for their Transformers series. Nothing too surprising. Still think they could have better used their time teasing this out months before for a title launching sooner rather than waiting for a surprise appearance that went nowhere. But w/e.
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Date: 2023-06-27 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-27 03:56 pm (UTC)It might be a very small amount but they're betting that enough people won't unsubscribe that it'll result in profit. Which is why I unsubscribed
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Date: 2023-06-27 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2023-06-27 04:52 pm (UTC)GM'ed my 1st 5e D&D game with the hubby's niece & nephew and their significant others. Nephew's GF is INSISTING she's gonna be queen (she's college-aged).
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Date: 2023-06-27 05:25 pm (UTC)We're gearing up to clean out the clutter and put the house up for sale. The new one seems to be coming along nicely, much to my surprise. I'm cautiously optimistic that this might just go smoothly...except for the fact we still haven't told my f-i-l. Because of reasons. Sigh...
As a means of battling nighttime anxiety attacks (gee, can't imagine why I'd be having those), I've been rereading Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko. It's very soothing. Actually found out that an art book was produced for the manga, and I went to eBay...holy cow. Nope.
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Date: 2023-06-27 06:03 pm (UTC)Since Comixology just got around to paying artists, now might be a good time to back.
The main expansion is Justice League Dark, plus there's a rivals game of Shazam vs Black Adam (wonder if that was intended to be a movie tie in or if they just already used all the other characters with archenemies that they thought they could sell), a cartoon-themed Legion of Doom expansion, a Cry for Justice themed expansion, and more.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze/dc-deck-building-game-justice-league-dark?ref=user_menu
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Date: 2023-06-30 03:20 am (UTC)Wait, what?
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Date: 2023-06-27 06:45 pm (UTC)You know I think I might actually prefer the design of Movie Aang. The cartoon design doesn't look as natural in live action.
I ordered the PS4 version of Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong. When it arrived I found it was missing the game disc. I guess Jimmy The Intern just grabbed a display copy of the shelf.
Anyway I got a replacement copy sent to me, but it arrived while I was out so now I have to go pick it up.
You know it annoys me when people try to fold their Futuristic Technology ideas with unrelated things. "Robot Arms"...I guess that could exist a few decades from now... "therefore we'll be able to upload our souls into computers and live forever" ...yeah that's not going to happen, and frankly that's a good thing.
The intro to the show Primos was released. It generated controversy. Perhaps if I didn't live in a country with a .05 Spanish speaking population I could way in.
The theme song does suck though.
"Sad news from TV-land, that "Star Trek: Prodigy" is cancelled and will be removed (possibly imminently) from Paramount Plus, along with other shows like "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" in advance of their merger with Showtime."
Let's laugh at the people who said that internet streaming services made owning things on DVD obsolete. "Why would you want to pay once to own a specific thing?"
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Date: 2023-06-27 09:28 pm (UTC)(Having blocked out what little may have been accidentally glimpsed helped in that regard.)
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Date: 2023-06-27 08:52 pm (UTC)He starred in the first two Warlock movies, and was the voice of Valmont in Jackie Chan Adventures.
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Date: 2023-06-27 09:20 pm (UTC)I'm going to immerse myself fully in this damn series if it's the last thing I do. I'm gonna read everything and figure out where I fall with it, if it deserved its praise and length, and how much it goes off the deep end. I've tried several times reading this series in the past and never got past the arc that revealed who the Adversary was. I was really liking it too but I don't know. I just fell off for some reason.
I'm reading an issue a day and I'll try and provide my thoughts so far with each arc, book, one shot, and such as I finish them. Here is where I am so far:
Fables: Legends in Exile:
Overall, the first arc is so oddly quaint in the end. It serves well as an introductory storyline to the series with introducing the cast, the dynamics, the setting, and some of the backstory & lore. It's an engaging missing person's mystery about what happened to Rose Red, figuring out the clues and finding how things piece together. As a guy who really enjoys crime dramas, this kind of thing hooked me right from the start when I first read it over a decade ago.
But yet, having read further obviously, the arc feels so small and uneventful. Given how out of the ordinary and fantastical the other storylines become, its rather subtle and doesn't set you up for what you'll be seeing throughout the series. Heck, the next arc is almost whiplash compared to this one. Still, if your only experience with Fables is The Wolf Among Us, this will feel right at home with it.
Also, different artist for this arc compared to the others with Lan Medina. I like their work a lot here, but I can definitely see why Mark Buckingham would take over. His style fits the series far more as it gets more fantastical.
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Date: 2023-06-30 03:25 am (UTC)Don't forget the Cinderella minis. I remember really liking them.
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Date: 2023-06-29 04:34 am (UTC)