I really enjoyed getting to know a little bit more about the Robot Kingdom and how they introduced this political unrest element in the form of Dengo and his actions. The entire volume set itself up nicely by giving it the ‘splitting up’ point to reach, and it achieved this very well and in a way that I can’t stop reading to see the reunion.

Reviewed on Sunday, January 15th, 2023, 5:48am.

I can definitely feel this comic shifting into a real classic like all of the critical reception and accolades would suggest. I had been in a real reading funk for the last few months and this thing has really set me back on course. Just the fact that all in basically one day I’ve now read three full volumes, about 20 issues, says a lot. Super easy to breeze through and get invested in characters from all sides of the conflict, the art is fantastic, and the story is very engaging. One aspect that I really love is whenever Hazel cuts in and they use that really striking handwritten font. It adds a lot of weight to whatever she’s decided to interject on. Onward and upward!

Reviewed on Saturday, January 14th, 2023, 7:11pm.

This was an interesting work that blends the worlds of fact and fiction pretty masterfully; the layers of the story stack atop one another and reach an almost frenzied climax, where I, and I think the narrator, cannot distinguish between those worlds. I found it very thought-provoking in that sense. Keeping with the frequent theme of an action ceasing to exist when its intent turns out to be misguided - the example that comes to mind is the author brushing Alex's hair back and giving their night together huge amounts of meaning due to an impending superstorm, yet when the storm falls flat, that night together might well have never happened for its lack of guiding tension - the Author's intent seemingly changes throughout, leaving the reader to wonder if what they are reading is the novel they had thought it to be. It's also very funny, and the neurosis of the narrator being portrayed in such humorous ways really helps when some of the more obtuse material springs forth.

Reviewed on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024, 2:54pm.

Really starting to enjoy the Invisibles comics as I kind of get my bearings on what Morrison is trying to say and accomplish with these stories. The action is insane and by now I'm pretty hooked on the messed-up world he's building.

Reviewed on Sunday, February 13th, 2022, 12:00am.

Since this is the de facto beginning of the second trilogy within the Expanse series, a lot of work is needed to be done in order to establish the next direction, and the book does succeed in that. However, it just feels entirely too removed from everything that had happened before, and even though it ties in the Protomolecule with how Ilus operates, it's a bit confusing to see the full picture right now. Of course, by the end of it, it's a bonafide page-turner.

Reviewed on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022, 12:00am.