At first I was curious, then I was anxious. That anxiety dissipated into a stillness, which was a prelude to the feeling of being unsettled. And then I thought, “that’s creepy.” Followed by, “…oh.” And it ended with, “yeah, that’s creepy.”
Tag Archives | bandes dessinées
Chabouté: Zoé
The ending left me a little dazed. Zoé gets out of jail and leaves the city to live in the house her grandmother left her. The town is aged with a dwindling population, but Zoé seems to like it enough. That is, until she learns the town’s secret. It’s the kind of story that even when you […]
Callède & Gael Sejourne: L’Appel des Origines
I often get drawn in by book covers and what the featured image might represent–this is generally in lieu of actually reading the synopsis. Good art and an intriguing composition can empty my wallet like magic. This one for the collected books is nice, but it didn’t grab me the way the cover for Book […]
Jean-Luc Cornette & Stéphane Oiry: Through The Walls
This is a collection of stories about how the ability to phase through matter, solid or otherwise, figures into the lives of everyday folk. I’ve always been fond of telling people to use their powers to good, but I’ve never given much thought to what comes in between good and the implied evil.This was an interesting […]
Guillaume Sorel: Guy de Maupassant’s Le Horla
This was not the book I intended to read, but then again it is. A few years ago, maybe two, I was watching the “Thriller” video and found myself in the mood for Vincent Price. I ended up watching An Evening Of Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the […]
Zidrou & Jordi Lafebre: Lydie
I remember not liking this the first time I read it, but I enjoyed it this time around. I think it wore on my patience the first time around. The story is about a young woman who seems to have an intellectual disability, her life as a single mother, and the neighborhood that helped her […]
Sneak Peek: Jean-Luc Cornette & Stéphane Oiry’s Through The Walls
This is chapter 1/the 1st story of the book I’m currently reading and enjoying even though it’s full of characters that I have no problem disliking and not in the “love to hate” way either.
Notes: Bandes Dessinées
Getting back into them is not as bad as I thought it would be. Though, reading out loud is strange, but I have to hear the words in order to get their meaning. I forgot I used to do that. But I have to, otherwise, it can take me two or three times as long […]
Giovanni Gualdoni, Gabriele Clima, Matteo Piana, & Davide Turotti: The Ring of the Seven Worlds
I was finally able to get this in English. Had I known it would be licensed, I would have waited, but that’s fine. It’s a great story and was worth the French the first time around. I made the mistake of reading it in 2009 or 2010 before it was completed. I think the final […]
Jean Dufaux & José-Luis Munuera: Sortilèges
I really shouldn’t have worried about what I was going to encounter with this story. Although I couldn’t remember what it was about, I thought of it for nearly three years, so that has to mean something. It was great. I’ve forgotten how intriguingly matter-of-fact bandes dessinées can be. Sortilèges, Sorcery in English, is the story […]
