Main character is this woman who searches for life-supporting planets using robotic probes.Her children have been taken from her, her husband dead. But guess what, people are running out of air down there. Low (pictured above) is set underwater, deep underwater as the sun’s expansion has made the earth uninhabitable. Oh and the guy who invents it has two kids and they get pulled into the different dimensions too. However, someone has sabotaged it and they can’t control where they are going. Black Science has device that lets a group travel across dimensions. I’m lumping these two together as there are similarities, besides the fact that both are by Remender. Low Vol 1: The Delirium of Hope – Rick Remender, Greg Tocchini (Illustrator) Or did he just assume that his book about China would not be read by Chinese people? As I said on Instagram, this is as insulting as if he had written ‘ching chong ling long’.īlack Science Vol 1: how to fall forever – Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera (Artist), Dean White (Colorist) I kept wondering, if he was indeed in China and knew people who understood Chinese couldn’t he have gotten someone to write up some actual Chinese dialogue that made sense (or even better, had an inside joke for those who could read Chinese?). I didn’t really like how Delisle strung random Chinese characters together and pretended it was actual Chinese spoken. Shenzhen: A travelogue from China – Guy Delisle But it reminds me of the potential for violence in all of us, and especially in young children.
It is really quite confusing a story, the reader is expected to fill in a lot of blanks on their own. All kinds of weird things happen, which the children attribute to a creature living in a dark tunnel. This manga is set in a small town in Japan and flits between childhood and young adulthood. I am not good with movies and books and things to do with creepy children – and this was even before I had children. In terms of illustrations, I love the use of colour.Ĭreepy children.
I wish that we could have learnt more about Mab and why she behaves the way she does – there are hints here and there but I think it could have added more depth if we had more background on Mab.
And it doesn’t help that she is self-centered and naive (she has spent most of her life working in a kitchen in a small village), and thus easily led astray by Mab, the faerie. Her beauty is a kind of destructive force. And Coddie becomes Beauty, the kind that is magnetic and attractive and enchanting, the kind that men would die for. Not that her looks are changed, instead the way she is perceived has been altered. So when she rescues a faerie, she asks for beauty and beauty she gets. Poor Coddie spends her time scaling fish and stinks of fish and is teased for being ugly. Beauty – Kerascoët (Illustrations), HubertĪ different kind of fairy tale.
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