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Adam O.
Ruiner (Ruins)
So, this is a comic set in a post-apocalyptic Copenhagen in the middle of getting reclaimed by nature. The art is quite pretty, but the story of the apocalypse, told in flashback by the (supposedly) last human - well, boring. Predictable. Extreme-left's dire warnings of extreme-right leading us all to hell in their war against terror and the freedom to smoke. Boring and preachy and heard it all before. Also, it took me a little to realize what was wrong with the art - it's this: there are no dead humans. Yes, it's apparently about ten years since everybody dropped dead due to a malfucntioning identity chip system, but where are the corpses? Yes, they'd have rotted, but come on - not a single mummy in a car wreck, not a field mouse nesting in a skull? Nothing? Seriously, mister, you'd think this was the rapture, not global-everybody-just-dropped-dead...
Paul A. Kring
Samlede fortællinger om Bolette Hansen (Collected stories about Bolette Hansen)
Bolette Hansen is a young woman in 1920's Copenhagen who writes mystery short stories for magazines for a living - until the day her friend and roommate is kidnapped and she basically reinvents herself as a hardboiled detective. It's quite an entertaining comic, complete with white slavery, crossdressing, random lions, bloody murders in a Morten Korch-style countryside. I actually like Bolette. Pity there's not more...
Johan Ajvide Lindqvist
Pappersväggar (Paper walls)
I quite like JAL and this short story collection is full of his usual mix of social realism, horror, dark fantasy and new weird (at least, I don't know what else to call a story about a highrise kraken thing). I particularly liked the first story, about a woman who meets a mysterious man and eventually realize, that they are both trolls - and apparently, trolls are quite different, as in their genders are kind - reverse? Also loved the little-old-lady-shoplifter-terrorist-Thelma-and-Louise story. And others...
Johan Ajvide Lindqvist
Tjärven
Alas, this was a disappointment - usually, JAL's stories can be expected to be different. Original. This one is disappointingly ordinary - a group of people meet for a 25 year highschool reunion, go to picnic on a tiny island, have their Iphones and boat conveniently stolen (by pirates from Åland) and are attacked by zombies walking out of the sea. All very conventional and would probably make a very nice movie, but compared to his usual work - disappointingly ordinary...
Nene Ormes
Udda verklighet
On one hand, I quite enjoyed this book - the world it creates is promising, a Neverwhere-style urban fantasy version of Malmö with shapeshifters and time travel and strange forces. Unfortunately, the story is - well, not really up to the world. A girl slowly realizing that her dreams are more than just dreams, having to go save her best friend - where have I read that before? Several places, really. Also, the bad guy - having a sadistic memory devourer maybe didn't need rape and general sadism, but could have worked as just an allegory for it. Maybe. Anyway, a very short novel and a not particularly exiting story, but the world intrigued me, and I really hope the author writes more in this 'verse - although, maybe a different main character would be appreciated...
J. Michael Straczynski
Thor vol. 1. & vol. 2.
I must confess, I'm not really feeling much appreciation for Loki in this - I mean, yes, s(he)'s nicely sneaky and villainious, but, well, not quite the Loki for me. I quite like the whole Asgard-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-US and the interactions between smalltown Americans and Norse gods (though I wonder why they didn't take a trip to Scandinavia, but that's my constant wonder with Marvel's Thor - tell me, if there are any comic book geeks reading this - has Marvel Thor ever even visited modern Scandinavia? And I don't mean just some random snowcovered nature - actually interacted with modern Scandinavians?)
Total number of books and comics read this month: 31
Currently reading: none - is between books
Ruiner (Ruins)
So, this is a comic set in a post-apocalyptic Copenhagen in the middle of getting reclaimed by nature. The art is quite pretty, but the story of the apocalypse, told in flashback by the (supposedly) last human - well, boring. Predictable. Extreme-left's dire warnings of extreme-right leading us all to hell in their war against terror and the freedom to smoke. Boring and preachy and heard it all before. Also, it took me a little to realize what was wrong with the art - it's this: there are no dead humans. Yes, it's apparently about ten years since everybody dropped dead due to a malfucntioning identity chip system, but where are the corpses? Yes, they'd have rotted, but come on - not a single mummy in a car wreck, not a field mouse nesting in a skull? Nothing? Seriously, mister, you'd think this was the rapture, not global-everybody-just-dropped-dead...
Paul A. Kring
Samlede fortællinger om Bolette Hansen (Collected stories about Bolette Hansen)
Bolette Hansen is a young woman in 1920's Copenhagen who writes mystery short stories for magazines for a living - until the day her friend and roommate is kidnapped and she basically reinvents herself as a hardboiled detective. It's quite an entertaining comic, complete with white slavery, crossdressing, random lions, bloody murders in a Morten Korch-style countryside. I actually like Bolette. Pity there's not more...
Johan Ajvide Lindqvist
Pappersväggar (Paper walls)
I quite like JAL and this short story collection is full of his usual mix of social realism, horror, dark fantasy and new weird (at least, I don't know what else to call a story about a highrise kraken thing). I particularly liked the first story, about a woman who meets a mysterious man and eventually realize, that they are both trolls - and apparently, trolls are quite different, as in their genders are kind - reverse? Also loved the little-old-lady-shoplifter-terrorist-Thelma-and-Louise story. And others...
Johan Ajvide Lindqvist
Tjärven
Alas, this was a disappointment - usually, JAL's stories can be expected to be different. Original. This one is disappointingly ordinary - a group of people meet for a 25 year highschool reunion, go to picnic on a tiny island, have their Iphones and boat conveniently stolen (by pirates from Åland) and are attacked by zombies walking out of the sea. All very conventional and would probably make a very nice movie, but compared to his usual work - disappointingly ordinary...
Nene Ormes
Udda verklighet
On one hand, I quite enjoyed this book - the world it creates is promising, a Neverwhere-style urban fantasy version of Malmö with shapeshifters and time travel and strange forces. Unfortunately, the story is - well, not really up to the world. A girl slowly realizing that her dreams are more than just dreams, having to go save her best friend - where have I read that before? Several places, really. Also, the bad guy - having a sadistic memory devourer maybe didn't need rape and general sadism, but could have worked as just an allegory for it. Maybe. Anyway, a very short novel and a not particularly exiting story, but the world intrigued me, and I really hope the author writes more in this 'verse - although, maybe a different main character would be appreciated...
J. Michael Straczynski
Thor vol. 1. & vol. 2.
I must confess, I'm not really feeling much appreciation for Loki in this - I mean, yes, s(he)'s nicely sneaky and villainious, but, well, not quite the Loki for me. I quite like the whole Asgard-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-US and the interactions between smalltown Americans and Norse gods (though I wonder why they didn't take a trip to Scandinavia, but that's my constant wonder with Marvel's Thor - tell me, if there are any comic book geeks reading this - has Marvel Thor ever even visited modern Scandinavia? And I don't mean just some random snowcovered nature - actually interacted with modern Scandinavians?)
Total number of books and comics read this month: 31
Currently reading: none - is between books
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