A Toy version of the scientific method, with Senku just intuiting things and progressing ridiculously quickly. But having even a toy version of sciencA Toy version of the scientific method, with Senku just intuiting things and progressing ridiculously quickly. But having even a toy version of science is more sophisticated than most fiction....more
I expected this to be usual boo-to-normality huzzah-for-bohemia bien-pensant stuff, but it's actually down on slacker culture, rock n roll bullshit, bI expected this to be usual boo-to-normality huzzah-for-bohemia bien-pensant stuff, but it's actually down on slacker culture, rock n roll bullshit, being a scrub. Every character is deeply flawed, and even the nice ones are drawn deformed (noses longer than their legs, pinprick eyes, eyes crawling along the nose). Buddy is self-aware and funny, but also a shit. Lots of observations, violated principles, ordinary madness....more
Urasawa means: giant vertical imagination, crab bucket mentalities and evil vizier shit you hiss aloud at, hasty sentiment, 10 declarations per volumeUrasawa means: giant vertical imagination, crab bucket mentalities and evil vizier shit you hiss aloud at, hasty sentiment, 10 declarations per volume, gut punches, that nose on 20 characters. Bad things to good robots....more
Fun! Opens like Breaking Bad, with the winning loser, the casually corrupt young and the resigned old square. Then terrible power and casting off pettFun! Opens like Breaking Bad, with the winning loser, the casually corrupt young and the resigned old square. Then terrible power and casting off petty society.
Philosophical question about his transfiguration: they make a robot look like him, and it thinks it is him, has his memories and his hangdog attitude. But when it finds out it is not flesh anymore, it decides it is not him. This makes no sense, and is never questioned. I think it’s mainstream though. My question: am I addled from years of philosophy, or are you lot addled from lacking it?...more
Masterful. Maybe the best depiction of speciesism in any medium. Full of cryptic references to early C20th American sports heroes, Greek astronomy andMasterful. Maybe the best depiction of speciesism in any medium. Full of cryptic references to early C20th American sports heroes, Greek astronomy and maths, and full page symbols without explanation. But it earns its being esoteric through taste, great characters, and a tragically detailed view of political economy.
Hines actually understands philosophy, where most artists who want to wield it just pick out cool sentences and run with them, cargo cult confectionery.
Very dark, as in low levels of white though. Also the other kind....more
Despite being loaded to the eyeballs with gimmicks, ideas, devices, and body mods, Ellis somehow avoids the unhealthy philosophy and milieu of cyberpuDespite being loaded to the eyeballs with gimmicks, ideas, devices, and body mods, Ellis somehow avoids the unhealthy philosophy and milieu of cyberpunk, in which technology (Black Mirror) or economics (anything by Gibson) or humanity itself (anything by Dick or Peter Watts) are depicted as inherently vicious, inherently doomed, inherently anything. No matter how changed, how corrupted the world is, it is still alive, full of possibility. This is a keystone of science fiction, and so cyberpunk - science fiction without possibility - has always been missing a chunk of its own foundations.
This city never allowed itself to decay or degrade. It's wildly, intensely growing. It's a loud bright stinking mess. It takes strength from its thousands of cultures, and the thousands more that grow anew each day. It isn't perfect. It lies and cheats. It's no utopia and it ain't the mountain by a long shot -- but it's alive. I can't argue that.
Great writing, great full colour art, not an excessive amount of Hunter Thompson aggrandisement and misanthropy....more
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