Stefani - SpelingExpirt’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2012)

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This is the discussion for our read of the month May comic selection.

Enjoy! I hope to be joining in with you all soon.

I recommend the sites mangafox and mangaeden to find titles like Ghost in the Shell. An important thing to remember while reading them is that they read from right to left rather than left to right.

What about steampunk and biopunk which are considered sun genres of cyber punk? Are you looking at anime/manga too?

Are you focusing solely on cyberpunk or will you be looking at the sub genres that it spawned as well?

My bookshelves look a mess for that very reason! It would look so much prettier if they were all the same size. At the same time the messiness of the different sizes has an oddly nice look sometimes.

I thought about organising by colour but my OCD kicked in and they have to be organised by author's surname. Fiction separated from non fiction. I'm painting my bookcases this weekend so I'll probably post pics when they're all prettified!

I bought another bookcase because of this. Mine are organised by Publisher then alphabetically by series. I go all out because only with my comics, books and DVDs does everything have to be perfectly organised.

Thanks Kay, it is great to be here!

I'm loving Clara but not loving the season itself. The episodes themselves just feel a bit 'meh' at the end of each. Like enjoyable but not memorable. It doesn't feel like a very cohesive season and the opener wasn't huge enough.

I agree Rebecca, every time I wrote Thatcherite I winced slightly hoping no one would take it the wrong way.

I misspoke when I said it was set in a Thatcherite (wince) Britain, just written when she was ruling and her time in power had a great impact on Moore's writing.

I almost feel sorry for Alan Moore when he set up ABC under one of his friend's companies just for his friend to sell the rights of the parent company to DC, that must've hurt!

I think part of what made Evey so difficult to digest (very accurate phrasing) was how young she was. Her age made a lot of the content quite hard. I loved how she was (view spoiler)[ sure he was her Father despite how many times he said he wasn't. I also like how they left that part unresolved and it was kind of up to us to decide (hide spoiler)]

He definitely profited from the first two (From Hell and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). He said that as long as he could distance himself by not seeing them then he could profit from them and his comics would be untouched and separate to everyone else. He also admitted that he was incredibly naive to think that.

I agree though that the comics and films should be separate in people's mind because they all had dramatic alterations, sometimes for the better (the ending of Watchmen actually makes sense in the film) but sometimes for the worse (I don't even know what they tried to do with the League, but it is almost so bad it's good, only almost though).

When I read V I felt like I was reading an intelligent commentary on Facism in a Thatcherite Britain but when I watched the film I was watching something very different and modernised and both were brilliant to me.

Might be controversial but I don't like Alan Moore. His comics are great but as a person he comes off awfully. He hates all of his films yet continues to sell the rights, that reeks of money grabbing to me.

I think he has some points about the V film but I think it was a modern generation of Americans not fully understanding the world Moore experienced under Thatcherism that would propel him into writing the comic. I don't know how he expected Americans to fully understand how close Britain came to Facism under Thatcher.

I think they did the best to modernise the material, parts of it failed but living in Britain I also have a great understanding of how easy it would be to see my country become that which was reflected on the screen, now more than when the film first came out because now we have Thatcher's boys taking over the country with their special modern version of her ideology.

I read this in December so it is too soon for me to want to reread. I'm one of those that saw the film instead of read it, I think both have their merits.

I didn't like Evey so much in the comic but I loved V more, even though he was brilliantly acted in the film I felt like the page was where he belonged and he was a perfect creation on the page.

I'd like to recommend Metro 2033 for book.



And From Hell for comic

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But what August showed him in the box proves that he did know who he was.

I think because if they had stayed together they would have raised Henry together, which would mean he never would have been adopted by Regina, Henry wouldn't have gone looking for Emma and then the curse would never have been broken.

Stick with it Anna. I wasn't enjoying it at first but I think it is getting better.