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review 2015-11-27 19:02
Everything comes together
Groot (2015-) #6 - Jeff Loveness,Brian Kesinger,Declan Shalvey

It turns out that getting to Earth was about something, something deep, something that influenced Groot and changed his life.   Everything else?   Well, that was just the journey.   See, Groot needed to find someone, to thank them, to catch up with them, before either of them lost the time to say hello, thank you, this is what's been happening with me. 

 

And it made me tear up a bit. 

 

It was a beautiful, touching moment.   And that isn't to say that this issue didn't have the irreverence that it had before.   It was funny, it poked fun at a whole bunch of things in the Marvel universe - and in ours - and it focused a lot on Groot and Rocket, at least until the last half, when Groot finally did what he came to Earth to do. 

 

And the whole gratitude, and focus on friendship's forged in fire, isn't that odd: the journey has been full of friendships tested, and proven, and gratitude for the company of good friends who would walk through fire for each other.   It may not have ended with Groot and Rocket sharing that friendship, but Rocket often points out that Groot is more amiable, more optimistic, and makes friends far more easily.   It isn't surprising that it ends with Groot and another person who was close to him, although he'd only known her briefly before this.  

 

It isn't surprising at all.   And it's lovely how that doesn't take away from Groot and Rocket; Rocket is quietly tabled, although I would argue that it's more than that.   Rocket leaves Groot to his business, respects his need for other friends, and time alone with them, and is comfortable enough to realize that this diminishes his friendship with Groot by absolutely nothing.   None of this is said, but the series leading up to it said it well enough. 

 

Another thing that is left unsaid is that Groot will go back to Rocket, and they'll leave Earth together, to continue their friendship and adventures.   It's not even a question.   And it's a testament to this series that it doesn't have to be said.   It's been said via the first five issues and the first half of this one.   Saying it again would only diminish the beauty of this ending, and everything that had built up before this.   

 

No, leaving these things unsaid is a beauty all its own.    It was far more powerful an ending to this miniseries than I could have hoped for.   I look forward to more work by Loveness. 

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review 2015-09-11 00:12
Promises Baby!Groot!
Groot (2015-) #4 - Jeff Loveness,Brian Kesinger,Declan Shalvey

This is to be continued, and the next issues promises Baby Groot.  I ended up checking out the preview date for the next Groot and saw that there will be Baby Groot in issue 5.  

 

So, so cute.  

 

So is the way Groot picked up so many friends to help Rocket.   Meanwhile, Rocket is being used as bait, because Groot has a bounty on his head.   Rocket talks to his captors. A lot.   Mostly about how Groot isn't all cynical like Rocket is, and sees the best in everyone. 

 

I've always been more of a Rocket fan than a Groot fan, but, man, this issue?   Rocket's extolling of Groot's virtues?   This makes me love Groot so damn much.  As much as Rocket.   Groot is amazing. 

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text 2015-09-02 18:33
New comics today!
Groot (2015-) #4 - Jeff Loveness,Brian Kesinger,Declan Shalvey
Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde (2015-) #3 - Alti Firmansyah,Yasmine Putri,Sam Humphries
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #44 - IDW Comics

Yay!   I'm not going to count the two Marvel ones as read until I get them onto the Marvel reader.  I may read them via Comixology, too.   

 

Also, may stop by Newbury Comics again.   For anyone interested, Marvel Comics $3.99 or less are 1/2 off until Halloween at Newbury.

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review 2015-07-25 21:11
adorable
Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod - Brian Kesinger

lovely and super cute illustrations

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review 2013-07-03 00:00
Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod
Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod - Brian Kesinger

Reseña de Fantasía Mágica

Compré este libro porque encontré al artista en DeviantArt y no me pude resistir.
Esta es una guía muy completa para todo aquel que quiera adoptar como mascota un pulpo.
Pese a lo que pueda parecer, el texto de este libro es muy serio. Es claramente en broma, pero está dicho con completa seriedad. Tanto el diseño como el tiempo presente en que nos habla nos transporta a la época Victoriana (y steampunk), donde tener un pulpo es signo de status social y buen pasar económico.

Pero no crean que tener un cefalópodo es algo sencillo. Ellos son criaturas enormemente inteligentes, y es por eso mismo que el entrenarlos puede resultar un poco complicado (además de que algunas especies son reencorosas). Sin embargo para despejar todo tipo de dudas está este libro, donde encontraremos a la izquierda un texto formal que nos cuenta todo lo que necesitamos saber sobre los pulpos (hábitos, psicología, cuidados, etc), y a la derecha las hermosas y divertidísimas ilustraciones que son la escencia de esta publicación.



Nuestros muy queribles protagonistas son Victoria y Otto. Victoria es la fundadora del popular movimiento Octo-Victorian (Pulpo-Victoriano sería) que parece que está arrasando por el país. Ella es la feliz poseedora de una mascota y gran compañero cefalópodo, gracias a quien su calidad de vida se incrementó notablemente. Da la sensación de ser un poco excéntrica y claramente despreocupada, además de que no le interesa lo que piensen los demás.
Con las simpatiquísimas ilustraciones de Brian Kesinger se nos narra sin palabras la historia de cómo adoptó a Otto -la eligió él, como debe ser- cuando sólo era un tierno y pequeño pulpito, cómo va creciendo y las diferentes actividades perfectamente mundanas (y otras no tanto) que desarrollan juntos. Me morí de amor con estos dibujos, y me encantó el juguete de Cthulhu, muy adecuado para un pulpito bebé (aunque Otto encuentre más divertida una caja de cartón).



Al margen de que la impresión es de gran calidad y todo el libro en general está hecho con muchísima prolijidad, algo que me sorprendió mucho es el tamaño. Si bien ya sabía que es rectangular, esperaba que no superara el tamaño de una novela común. Me encontré sin embargo con que mide unos 35x17cm. Grande. Es más, no se bien dónde lo voy a guardar.

Tiene poco texto y se lee rapidísimo, pero la mayor parte del tiempo lo pasé mirando cada detalle de las ilustraciones. El sentido del humor de todo el libro es genial además de muy tierno, y se nota que Otto es tremendamente feliz.
Además de que ya de por sí es una historia volada y muy original, les va a encantar a todos los que quieran a los animales y tengan la dicha de tener una mascota (aunque a veces quieran esquilarlos cuando rompen por tercera vez un par de anteojos).

Ya estoy buscando el refugio de pulpos más cercano, seguro que a mi perrito le va a encantar tener un amigo más.

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