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Finished reading:
Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman. The premise of this is absolutely fantastic. It's also her first novel, which shows up in jarring ways: strange sentences, and somewhat underdeveloped characters. It's such a good premise, though – that genuinely, to my shame, helped reframe my thinking on its topic – that I'm willing to give her a pass, and look interestedly to whatever her next project turns out to be.
Jessica Jones: Alias vol. 1. The art style is a little static – possibly intentionally, but I prefer more movement in my frames... I say, as if I have the knowledge to pass judgment on this stuff. I really don't. But the writing and the pacing is otherwise absolutely fantastic. I love Jessica and all her fuckups, and her wry, bitter voice, the Matt Murdoch cameos, and Carol Danvers as her long-suffering friend and support. I am so here for it, and so far, would totally read the other three volumes even with the Kilgrave storyline. (Content note for borderline sex-as-self-harm in the first few pages of this volume, not graphic, though.)
Up next: (as if in, starting sometime this evening probably)
(Hugh Howey's) Wool, which turns out to be a standalone graphic novel of one of his first books – first self-published, then picked up for a substantial book contract. Interested, with slight trepidation now.
Up later:
The house of shattered wings by Aliette de Bodard. Interested for this one.
Record of a spaceborn few by Becky Chambers. Her first book was Good with minor flaws. HE second was tight, and excellent. I’m really, really excited to see what she’s got for her third.
Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman. The premise of this is absolutely fantastic. It's also her first novel, which shows up in jarring ways: strange sentences, and somewhat underdeveloped characters. It's such a good premise, though – that genuinely, to my shame, helped reframe my thinking on its topic – that I'm willing to give her a pass, and look interestedly to whatever her next project turns out to be.
Jessica Jones: Alias vol. 1. The art style is a little static – possibly intentionally, but I prefer more movement in my frames... I say, as if I have the knowledge to pass judgment on this stuff. I really don't. But the writing and the pacing is otherwise absolutely fantastic. I love Jessica and all her fuckups, and her wry, bitter voice, the Matt Murdoch cameos, and Carol Danvers as her long-suffering friend and support. I am so here for it, and so far, would totally read the other three volumes even with the Kilgrave storyline. (Content note for borderline sex-as-self-harm in the first few pages of this volume, not graphic, though.)
Up next: (as if in, starting sometime this evening probably)
(Hugh Howey's) Wool, which turns out to be a standalone graphic novel of one of his first books – first self-published, then picked up for a substantial book contract. Interested, with slight trepidation now.
Up later:
The house of shattered wings by Aliette de Bodard. Interested for this one.
Record of a spaceborn few by Becky Chambers. Her first book was Good with minor flaws. HE second was tight, and excellent. I’m really, really excited to see what she’s got for her third.