Greetings fellow human, I like to read, think and critique pretty much anything and everything, but mostly I talk about books with pictures. Doesn't matter if it's a graphic novel, comic book, comic strip, webcomic, manga, manhwa, wordless, back of a cereal box, picture book, nonfiction, epic fantasy, science fiction, romance, and/or NSFW I'm talking about.
My goal is to not only to spread the word about the amazing diversity we have in modern comics, but also to learn about and explore them on an artistic/literary level. And while you will hear a lot of personal opinion on this channel, I try and highlight other opinions I find in my internet wanderings.
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7:25 wdym without her consent?
If I recall correctly Constantine did not explain this plan to Zed and therefore she did not consent to be “corrupted”
Joe Sacco is probably the journalist with the least amount of integrity out there. Horrible book filled with anti American and pro Palestinian propaganda Nice review though ❤
Well I’ll try and at least match his level of anti-Americanism going forward. Your comment has really inspired me.
@@LiterallyGraphic If you are serious about it then you have to come over to Palestine to see how nicely you'd be treated with your enlightenment and love for same gender. Oh be sure they'd show you some queer love. They love to throw LGBTQ community of the roof more than they like their goats <3
Vampire tales!
Engaging precis of this graphic novel. I found your presentation interesting, informative, balanced, and well paced. So much so that I have purchased 'Palestine'. Your outtake recognising the indigenous tribes I really took to heart. So, I will equally acknowledge the Darkinjung peoples from Woy Woy, NSW, Australia, who's land I occupy.
the whiplash i got when we went from "cute simplistic artstyle" to "whitewashed nuclear family that avoids talking about human class" 😭
I guess I like to keep people on their toes
At first I thought I was experiencing Deja vu cause I literally just watched this same review from four years ago on your older account! Thank you for sharing and spreading the word on these wonderful little gems
I actually have no idea what you are talking about.
Thanks for this review. I really enjoy this series
Wait. You actually refers in your review about the fact that there was no REPRESENTATION OFLGBTQFAK? Who the heck cares? I read Olivier Schrauwen Arsene and enjoyed it, then there was the gay couple (including visual stuff..) I didn't care, I don't think anyone did. Who judges quality of a book based on sexual stuff? That's like eating a pie with your elbows
In general it has become my practice to talk about the inclusion or absence of many different points of identity. It’s just a fact about the book lol.
@@LiterallyGraphic As a straight dude, I really enjoyed reading "why I adopted my husband", I didn't feel that it was missing "straight relationship" in there. All I'm saying is that it shouldn't affect the grade of the story. Inclusion is important, but not mandatory to enjoy a story or to affect its grade. In my opinion. Anyway you have good taste for reading Thomas Ott in the first place 💙
I literally did not “dock points”though for it only being hetero. I just thought the way that women were represented was “old fashioned” and I gave an example of a negative cliche that also is tied to heterosexual relationships.
An interesting contribution to an important subject. I certainly will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation, Meepelous.
I was actually a fan of the dark jem plot line. It highlighted just how much power synergy actually has. It was lightly touched on in the original series but the writers here really got that the thing that makes the pretty light shows can also be a nuck.
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Thanks for sharing this interesting book, Meepelous. It makes me want to share a story of my own about someone else who spent time in Canada in internment camps. Last year, I read the biography of Klaus Fuchs, the famous spy. Today in the USA he is remembered almost exclusively as a spy, but that's misleading. He was a physicist by vocation. His conscience did compel him at one point to share scientific secrets. Fuchs was a promising, young German theoretical physicist, a Socialist and an anti-Nazi activist who had been forced to flee Germany before the war. He fled to the UK and demonstrated his extraordinary abilities in experimental physics. When war broke out, he was detained and interned as were all Germans. The British detained them all together--Nazis, anti-Nazis and Jews--all in the same camp. In the process, some even died. Finally, British physicists involved in the development of the Atomic Bomb were able to convince the UK government to release him and enlist him into their efforts. He was invited to the USA to participate in the Manhattan Project as part of the British Scientific Team. His time in the internment camp had convinced him that the British were not much better than the Germans. He felt, as many of the physicists did, that the power of the atomic bomb should not just belong to one or two nations, so he secretly shared classified scientific information with agents of the USSR. Eventually, he was discovered and arrested. After his conviction on espionage charges, he served 9 years in prison. He was demonized in the USA as a betrayer of the "Free World." Based upon standard protocols in the UK, Fuchs was released on good behavior and returned to East Germany to become an important leader in their Nuclear Energy Program. On August 29th, 1949, Stalin successfully tested his first atomic bomb. Before that date, the USA had utilized the bomb twice on civilian targets. There had been talk of putting the bomb to use again in North Korea, but after the Soviets had their bombs, deterrence kicked in. The US insisted that Stalin's possession of the atomic bomb placed the entire world in danger, but no other atomic or nuclear attacks have been carried out since then by anyone. Could Fuchs perhaps have made the ethical decision?
I loved this book! I also found it very informative with the culture as someone who knew very little about it
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I LOVEE THIS MANGA
I read it in dutch and oml its the most beautiful book ive read
I didn't understand it that well
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Thanks for the review! This book is ridiculously expensive on eBay. A fun fact, Hagio has on the record stated that Heart of Thomas, her first “BL” manga was directly inspired by one of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy stories called “the Last Day on Earth” in which Astro protects an agender alien robot named Bem who looks like a cherub from the aliens that created the robot to be a bomb that could destroy planets. There was nothing intentionally romantic about it, but it very much plays out like those tragic shoujo manga romance plots. I don’t know if Go Nagai ever went on the record about being inspired by this particular story either, but there’s also a lot of noticeable similarities of Bem with Devilman’s Ryo Asuka, right down to the angelic features and gender shenanigans.
Oops, sorry Hagio’s first shounen ai was the November Gymnasium but I think that inspiration bled into Heart of Thomas as well.
So cool! Thank you for sharing
I normally don't like a rewriting of The Bard's classics... but I liked this! I'm still looking forward to the movie even if Lakeith Stansfeild is no longer in it. It truly was a page turner (just like the video 😅)!
This is hot❤
worthless review of a pathetic immoral pornagraphic worthless book
Pointless comment that is a waste of time while you could go out and do something worthwhile for yourself and others.
Thanks for reviewing this book, Meepelous. I hadn't heard of Collins before but will definitely get this book out of the library!
All I wanted was just a review of a manga; at 2:50, I didn’t need a lecture about “Gender Stereotypes” or “Toxic Masculinity”.
No one forced you to watch the video lol.
One of my favorites. :)
Great vid! I've been making my way through the trade volumes myself although I've kind of been on a little break while I explore other things.
A great find! Thanks for the heads-up, Meepelous!
This is a really good review of a comic of which I've never heard.
Nice review. Taiyo is becoming my favorite artist, and I need to get this one.
The art's so cute! Need to check it out.
You provide overviews of 10 or so visual artists who worked on this volume before summarizing this comic @4:02. I like your analysis of The Invisibles, so you might want to get to that a little faster. Perhaps, you might focus on giving bios only to those who worked on the most issues, e.g., Jill Thompson and Morrison.
LOL, I never imagined you would read this.
maybe tilt the book level to the camera next time cos i cant see shit
I do? I added a second angle because it's more visually interesting then just one. The point is to provide some visual sampling while not opening myself up to accusations of allowing people to read the book through my videos.
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Stop the Genocide. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I appreciate the recommendation, Meepelous.
Learn More About Palestine Through Comics - in the orders that videos were published in: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco kzread.info/dash/bejne/rK2am7WNh6u8fbA.html Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine by Anaële Hermans & Delphine Hermans kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6WBw5iao5Srdc4.html Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh kzread.info/dash/bejne/npVnuNKNkdi4g5M.html Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYmIpLOhk5eyqtI.htmlsi=yy54lrEiCy-e7DdB Palestine by Joe Sacco kzread.info/dash/bejne/qp51scuDmq_YeJM.html Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJikmbqToJvWlps.html Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIGBzreioLm2lto.html The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories by Marguerite Dabaie kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zn-Yw9qSnpbRZcY.html Having recently passed 1,000 subscribers I'm planning on periodically film Q&A video - submit your question and/or take a short community survey here forms.gle/C1q9MMmxFQB8cupB6
Absolute garbage sorry to say. Ridiculous propaganda nonsense. Apparently brainwashed., indoctrinated, delusional, falsely self righteous, hypocritical, contradictory nonsense all around. The lack of reasonably logical, ethical standards brings disgrace to art in every way possible. A prime example of a lost soul bound for self destruction. If you think this is an address from your false presumptions mentioned guess again. Im just a t not a fool easily manipulated by this trash.
Thanks, for sharing. I read Guantanamo Voices last year and thought it was done really well. I'm going to look for this one so I can compare.
As someone who is on volume 9 of this series, I absolutely love it. From this video alone it only shows the first 2 volumes but I think the story really hits strides around volume 4. The story builds up to an amazing climax in their relationship, and it really helps set the tone for the rest of the series. The author of the video said they couldn't relate much to the band part of the series, and while my experience with band was on the concert band side I feel like that club experience can be related to any club. Anyways, having finished volume 9 back in august and currently waiting on vol 10 to come out on jan 24, I can say the series is amazing ride and can be experience by anyone. I wish the series was more popular tho.
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Now I want to read this !
I bought these in single issues and I'll admit it was a little over my head. I should probably try to re-read them.
Learn More About Palestine Through Comics - in the orders that videos were published in: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco kzread.info/dash/bejne/rK2am7WNh6u8fbA.html Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine by Anaële Hermans & Delphine Hermans kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6WBw5iao5Srdc4.html Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh kzread.info/dash/bejne/npVnuNKNkdi4g5M.html Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYmIpLOhk5eyqtI.htmlsi=yy54lrEiCy-e7DdB Palestine by Joe Sacco kzread.info/dash/bejne/qp51scuDmq_YeJM.html Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJikmbqToJvWlps.html Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIGBzreioLm2lto.html The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories by Marguerite Dabaie kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zn-Yw9qSnpbRZcY.html Having recently passed 1,000 subscribers I'm planning on periodically film Q&A video - submit your question and/or take a short community survey here forms.gle/C1q9MMmxFQB8cupB6
Happy New Year. I appreciate my fellow Gaiman doubters/haters.
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Nice review, Meepelous! The artwork looked very appealing. I do appreciate the warning about the less than credible naivete of the characters and the predictability of the plotline.
Learn More About Palestine Through Comics - in the orders that videos were published in: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco kzread.info/dash/bejne/rK2am7WNh6u8fbA.html Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine by Anaële Hermans & Delphine Hermans kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6WBw5iao5Srdc4.html Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh kzread.info/dash/bejne/npVnuNKNkdi4g5M.html Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYmIpLOhk5eyqtI.htmlsi=yy54lrEiCy-e7DdB Palestine by Joe Sacco kzread.info/dash/bejne/qp51scuDmq_YeJM.html Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJikmbqToJvWlps.html Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIGBzreioLm2lto.html The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories by Marguerite Dabaie kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zn-Yw9qSnpbRZcY.html Having recently passed 1,000 subscribers I'm planning on periodically film Q&A video - submit your question and/or take a short community survey here forms.gle/C1q9MMmxFQB8cupB6