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Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
There's the 'I have a dreamland, but, y'know, not in a gay way,' to the slut shaming, to the mocking of the 'fat chick.' Yes, the storytelling is damaging, and yes, the art is good, and I suppose it tries to be empowering - but it's not. Yes, the women are smart and stand up for themselves - but...
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
But I still am crazy about the story and characterizations. This would be a flat-out five star read if it didn't try to fetishize the loa. Using them at all, using any religion or minority that has been fetishized, is very tricky; it's too easy to fall into the same trap. By making a Loa a su...
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
Children. Lots and lots of children in cages. Children who are psiots, who all want to kill him. Which is when things get really, really weird. Perfect ending. I can't wait to see how Bloodshot does as a daddy-figure in the next volume, seeing, as he points out to Pulse that he's a li...
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
I just wish I'd felt better yesterday so I could have finished it. It's funny, it's weird, it's got wonderfully rounded out characters and a great variety of them as well, and the art is just so slick it makes me salivate. The really beautiful thing about this, though, is that it continues on f...
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
Although I get the vague impression that I missed something. No doubt I have. They gloss over volume four of X-O Manowar, and I suspect Harbinger Wars took place before this, but it's not like anything is clearly stated. There's a one page timeline, but it's set in the actual time - when Aric ...
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