I think the first book was the best of the trilogy. And it shouldn’t be like that in my opinion. The quality’s curve should be either equal or rising, not declining.
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I bounced rather hard off the first book, mostly because Darrow was so effortlessly excellent at everything he tried, so I’m glad that was the high point.
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A consequence of the 2000AD documentary I watched recently.
This edition collects (and colours) the 3 volumes which were completed before the authors fell out with the publisher (in the 80s). Reportedly, Moore had pre-planned 10 volumes covering the character’s life through to old age, and knew what the story would be. I understand that a great many people have long been very sad that this came to an end so soon.
I’m not entirely certain, but I think the last comic book I read was Watchmen by the exact same author and artist! That must have been about 2007, as it wasn’t terribly long after I read it that the movie was announced, and that came out in 2009.
I do also have a borrowed pair of volumes called The Doomsday Clock on my shelf which have been sitting there untouched for about a year, so there’d be at least one intervening comic book if I wasn’t so very slow to get around to reading things…
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Halo Jones was definitely one of my favourites when I read the original 2000AD issues, along with Zenith.
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And then I’m out… just out.
Can you tell me what the documentary was? Would love to watch it.
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Also I should point out that Halo Jones is drawn by Ian Gibson, not Dave Gibbons, who drew Watchmen.
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Oh dear… I even thought something seemed weird about his name, but apparently not so much as to make me check! Thanks for the correction :).
The duration is misleading – the feature is 1:50, but then there’s another 5 hours of extra material if you’re keen :). (Most of that being longer interviews, but there are other things as well.)
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Oooh lovely! Thank you very much!
Ooh watching the trailer, I realise I’ve seen this before somewhere… I wonder where it was originally.
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It was free on Amazon a few years back which is when I caught it. Good stuff for certain.
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Ahh that’s likely to be it.
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I liked the second book best. Also struggled through the third. A bit too much miseryporn, overuse of the “unkillable gold” trope to pit her characters through impossible (painful) situations, and yes. The twist on the twist became so predictable that all the suspense and surprise wore off. The end was obvious.
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If T. Kingfisher isn’t a pen name of Ursula Vernon, I’m going to be sad.
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Good news! No need for you to be sad here.
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It is her pen name.
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And having been to her guest of honour interview at Finncon I know what the T stands for.
The.
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She’s not just Northern, then?
Catching up on some ebooks I bought from Humble Bundle somewhen.
Read Zoo City, which was a very cool what-if-magic-in-present-day story, mostly in South Africa. I’d write more, but I don’t want to spoil the setting. Might have to see what else Lauren Beukes has written.
Read Pump Six and other stories, which I enjoyed as expected, having enjoyed Paulo Bacigalupi’s work before. Short form sci-fi.
Also read Secret World Chronicles vol 1, which was utter tripe - a superhero ramble with absolutely nothing to recommend it, by a bunch of authors.
Oh, and I read some actual physical books too, while staying in the UK:
Klara and the Sun, which was great, as expected from Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Unconsoled, by the same author, which was a real endurance test. The whole thing reads like a dream, literally, with geography, continuity, flow, and everything all being as fluid as you’d expect from a dream. Definitely can’t recommend it, but if you love the author (I do), it’s certainly an experience.
Book of Elsewhere, a book based on a comic nominally by Keanu Reeves(?). Not bad, because the author, China Mieville, is another favourite of mine. Immortal doing mostly very violent immortal things from past to near-future.
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Just read Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky… well listened to the audiobook cause I got it for 99p.
Very very good, essentially Gulag Archipelago Science Fiction. A very good mix of biology and politics.
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