lilmikeegee

August 20, 2008 2:04 pm I love Buckaroo Banzai. The movie is so good. Seeing the writers of the movie making comics is a great thing, and it shows in the writing of this book. But the art is so bad, the coloring so ameteurish, that the level of the book is diminished a thousand fold. It was so difficult to get through this issue. Very sad.

June 24, 2008 11:46 pm

Appleseed, especially books 3 and 4. i read apleseed once a year since it came out. the art is beyond amazing, the story is layered and interesting. Shirow Masamune is a master of storytelling, realistic tech and hot women. He also worked in the military in japan so he knows his stuff. he designed a gun for this comic so detailed that the japanese bought the plans to make it real.

Applesed follow Deunan Knute and her cyborg friend Briareos through a complex political maze in a future utopia. They join ESWAT to live and use their military skills in a city that tells them they are not needed. Cyborgs and humans try to coexist, but for how long? 

June 5, 2008 2:20 am

I am embarrassed to buy this book. I keep doing it; I love John Byrne. I feel compelled to. But this is Byrne sleepwalking thru art chores. Nothing more. The writing boring and predictable, the coloring is terrible. The whole book is like a beginner made it. Horrid story of a young hero with inane kitschy powers to form a toy line of shapes to help him on his 'journey.'

 And at the $3.99 price point it kills me. I wretch at buying it. Yet, the Byrne slave I am, I keep getting it and hoping it will end before issue 6.