reading comics is hard, part eleventy-one

[valentinite]

So wariena plays Inspector Lunge, and he is awesome. So I convinced the library to lend me Monster, a bit at a time, and am slowly working through it when I have time.

And since I am on the train but too bleah to write, I will tl;dr at you instead.

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Spoilers from before volume 10

[wariena]

Damned is an enabler. Trufax.

It's a lot easier to tell characters apart in the anime since there's actually colour, but yeah. I can't imagine how difficult it must be in black and white- Urasawa subscribes to the style where he has 'sets' of noses/ eyes/ hair styles, etc, where he just mixes them up to come up with character designs. Like Epsilon (the one with the long hair), from Pluto. Recognise him at all? XD

Also, Richard. Just... Richard. Arghhh. That killed me when I first got to that bit- I had to take a break from the series for a month for being so damn heartless and emotionally manipulative with it.

Re: Spoilers from before volume 10

[valentinite]

Yeah, I ran into some Pluto character icons (not Epsilon, but as I don't know the series I don't know who it was) wandering around somewhere RP-related and did a double-take. Volumes 11 and 12 have a handy-dandy whos-who at the beginning; perhaps they noticed their easily-confused readers, which helps since I've been reading a small batch and then forgetting to request more. (7-12 was what I requested this time.)

Richard was the straw that broke the camel's back for me on the series going overboard with deaths -- though I can understand why they did it because otherwise the whole "serial killer" storyline is blunted. At least it's not George .R.R. Martin scale of badness -- I love epic fantasy, but after a few of his books I said "why should I want to try to care about any of these characters; every time I do, they unexpectedly die horribly".

And feel better!