H.G Wells homage fusing The time Machine and War of the Worlds - The female assistant to the creator of the time machine, takes it on a jaunt with herH.G Wells homage fusing The time Machine and War of the Worlds - The female assistant to the creator of the time machine, takes it on a jaunt with her new beau, they break a lever and move in space as well as time, ending up on Mars before the martians invade Earth.
I rather enjoyed this, its a skillfully done mash-up that actually features Wells as a character towards the end....more
Spin off from the Pertwee episode Planet of the Spiders this has the 8th Doctor and Lucie attempt to foil a spider invasiom.
As mentioned in the first Spin off from the Pertwee episode Planet of the Spiders this has the 8th Doctor and Lucie attempt to foil a spider invasiom.
As mentioned in the first half of this two parter, Lucie being brainwashed is fairly subdued, but otherwise thumbs up from me. Love Planet of the Spiders and this one's lots of fun....more
Lucie gets recruited by a brainwashing cult while the Doctor joins some scientists investigating a missing space probe.
As usual with Eddie Robson storLucie gets recruited by a brainwashing cult while the Doctor joins some scientists investigating a missing space probe.
As usual with Eddie Robson stories this one's pretty good. My biggest issue is it's brevity. It's the first part of a 2-parter finale and feels shorter than most of the other 8th doctor adventures and then it just ends on an almighty cliff-hanger (so be warned have Wold Wide Web on hand, as this really doesn't work as a stand alone).
The other issue I had with it is splitting up Lucie and the Doctor. It's very much a two strand story - Lucie doing her thing with the cult and the Doctor doing his thing with the scientists. I miss the interaction between the Doctor and his companion, the teasing and witty banter. Luicie is brainwashed for most of this and while total Kudos to Sheridan Smith for making it totally believable, i miss Lucie's usual exuberance and general sarky self.
Still the cult section works really well and this kept my attention entirely. Its not bad at all, I just like some of the other stories better....more
**spoiler alert** The premise of The Game Players of Titan - where humans play Titan 'Vugs' for fame, fortune and matrimony is brilliant. I love the f**spoiler alert** The premise of The Game Players of Titan - where humans play Titan 'Vugs' for fame, fortune and matrimony is brilliant. I love the futuristic setting - with its PKD trademarks of flying cars, drug use and psionic powers. The murder of Luckman and the whodunnit plot is really tense - and I love the fact that our hero truly can't remember because his mind has been maiplulated.
However I found the second half really confusing - a lot of this is deliberate - the reader is forced to question who is a Vug and who is manipulating whom, but its made extra complicated by the way the narrative cuts out and jumps about. I really struggled - I would love to see a film version of this because I think a visual element would help trememdously. The teleportation to Titan and some of the hallusiongenic sequences left me feeling displaced and confused as did the vug replicas - I mean I'm assuming Patricia and her husband got replaced after they had children as 2 vugs can't have human offspring surely? I also struggled with what the Vugs plan was - by limiting our breeding were they trying to wipe out humanity and claim the Earth - we do get a feeling that they view us as a dying race who have had their time.... I think that was the plot of the extremist Vugs. However the regular ones who set up the game - their motivations aren't as clear.
Some of the horror sequences in this are excellent - I love the vision of the bodies after Mary Anne is through with them: "On the floor lay the twisted bodies of men and women, tangled together like multi-armed monsters, as if they had been shaken and dropped there, disgarded, the remains jammed together, forced into improbable fusion" I love the death of Katz where the glass he is holding is simply psychically moved into his body, cutting his heart in two. I just wish we could have seen this scene instead of having it simply recounted - its so wonderfully visual. The way the simulacra basically unzip and their true forms emerge is also another wildly visual and freaky scene.
There's so much here to enjoy. The question "How do you bluff against telepaths?" is such a brilliant concept. However I found the end result - murky. The novel is confusing, quite challenging to follow in places and ultimately cold. While I guess I was rooting for humanity, I never really warm to the human characters in this - Mary Anne really is a monster and Pete Garden never really struck a chord with me.
The open ending is good, the beginning is great. I just wish it made more sense in the middle. This one's crying out for a film version. I think a visual element can only improve this which has masses of potential but never quite manages to live up to it....more
The Zygon Who fell to Earth is a loose sequel to The Horror of Glam Rock where we meet Auntie Pat again and find out that Uncle Trevor is in fact a ZyThe Zygon Who fell to Earth is a loose sequel to The Horror of Glam Rock where we meet Auntie Pat again and find out that Uncle Trevor is in fact a Zygon who has gone native.
This one's ok. Great voice performances from Stephen Pacey (Blake's 7) and Tim Brooke-Taylor. The story just didn't grab me as much as many of the others in the series. Still McGann and Smith work so well together that this one's well worth a listen and kept my attention, its just never amazing. ...more
A group of children led by Emily (a girl so dedicated, she blinded herself in one eye, because she wanted to be a pirate) traverse an abandoned theme-A group of children led by Emily (a girl so dedicated, she blinded herself in one eye, because she wanted to be a pirate) traverse an abandoned theme-park booby-trapped by aliens.
This is very tightly plotted for Mellick and oddly unsexual - the heroine is a 10 year old girl, who begins like Wednesday Adams, but gains humanity as the book progresses. The whole thing is set against the back drop of a War of the Worlds style Alien Invasion.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. As ever CM3's imagination is staggering and his wry sense of humour shines through. This one isn't nearly as weird as some of his stuff, but thoroughly enjoyable none the less. ...more
Novelization of the 2nd Man From Atlantis pilot movie: Death Scouts. Two aliens (who may or may not be from Atlantis) take over the bodies of two diveNovelization of the 2nd Man From Atlantis pilot movie: Death Scouts. Two aliens (who may or may not be from Atlantis) take over the bodies of two divers and come to land. Mark is fascinated because he believes they are like him and will give him the answers he seeks. Elizabeth is sceptical and believes they are lying to him; he does not fear fire or children the way they do, act aggressively, or have the power to electrically shock people....
I particularly like this story for all the questions it raises about Mark's origins; is he an alien? Is his body in fact his own, or that of a victim? Were the aliens from his planet or did they in fact destroy his race? Frustratingly this gives no answers, but gives rise to much speculation. I like the subtle romance as well, as Mark becomes attracted to Lioa the female alien and so desperately wants to believe her. Its also nice because Schubert is completely absent. While I like the comedy villain, this one is a bit more serious and interesting.
Woodley's writing isn't bad, and the pace is fast and exciting. For the most part it follows the TV movie exactly. I would have loved more description on the interior of the alien ship, which comes across far more strongly in the episode than the novel, but on the whole this isn't bad. There are a couple of nice additional moments with some minor characters: Bobby-K and his tinkering with the radio so they can communicate Mark underwater. And in the scene were Joe Foley puts the kelp on Marks back we are treated to a tiny bit of back story about his mother being a masseur and his father a drummer. These tinny little snippets are rather fun additions.
Overall fans of the show won't be disappointed with this, its a decent enough novelization of the episode and a fun read....more
It's wonderful to see Junji Ito developing a full length cosmic horror rather than the anthologies of which he seems to churn out. And on the whole I It's wonderful to see Junji Ito developing a full length cosmic horror rather than the anthologies of which he seems to churn out. And on the whole I thought this one was great.
Dr. Oguro discovers a wormhole and out of the wormhole comes a planet shaped entity he names after his beautiful daughter Remina. For a while both are beloved celebrities; Oguro as a popular scientist and his daughter as a TV sensation. Things take a nasty turn when the planet Remina begins to move towards the Earth and devour all the stars and planets in its wake - People panic and decide that the only way to halt its progress is to ritualistically crucify Oguro and his daughter.
A lot of Ito tropes are here - a beautiful girl who inspires obsession, tentacles and eyeballs from beyond the stars, inexplicable disaster from the beyond, men driven to madness...
I loved the look of Remina as a giant eyeball, and the whole concept of 'a licking planet' - Once we get onto its surface as well with its twisted tentacles.... huge thumbs up. I also like the hooded villain, he's really freaky.
Blending together Lovecraft, Galactus, The Salem Witch Trials with his own unique talent, Remina presents a vision of cosmic horror I haven't seen from Ito in a long while. The weakest thing about it is the ending, it's dark, but I was expecting something more spectacular. Otherwise big thumbs up....more
After the Dune-esque epic 'Metabarons' this addition to the Metabarons saga comes as a big disappointment, I'm sad to say.
I'll start with the artwork After the Dune-esque epic 'Metabarons' this addition to the Metabarons saga comes as a big disappointment, I'm sad to say.
I'll start with the artwork - The art here is by two artists Travis Charest and Zoran Janjetov - for the most part it's fine, nowhere near as weird and exciting as some of Jodorowsky's other collaborators, but gets the job done. However for no reason I can fathom Janjetov has given No-Name the most ridiculous eyebrows you've ever seen. It's really off putting I kept thinking they should detach and crawl off somewhere. It makes this very comedic which is at odds with the very serious tone of this one.
The deadly seriousness of this instalment is another failing. One of the major selling points of the Jodoverse is its biting satire and ability to mix philosophy, comedy and tragedy - here the comedy is almost completely absent other than those ridiculous eyebrows. There are some moments that want to be comic such as "Your time has come you evil puddle of puke!" but it just jars against the philosophy-babble and slaughter.
The plot of this one is an allegorical quest narrative. On the surface No-Name is sent by the 8 Intra-sleepers (dream shifters) to find 4 sacred weapons: Praxis - the sword with a soul, the Omnigraal, the Transpineal eye (a mystical microchip) and I'm unsure what the 4th one is - the end of this seems to indicate him becoming a weapon, but whether this is the 4th one or whether he finds something else in a later story I'm unclear.
He fights and defeats a load of monsters: leodactyl (flying lion hybrids) lizard men, radio-active gelatin, space dragons, space leeches, dead ancestors and finally himself and the 8 want him to defeat the Hulzgemins 'vampires of the mind' who have accidentally bled through using their dream channels - though we don't actually see their defeat in this volume.
As well as the physical journey we have No Name's spiritual one to find enlightenment - He gains a soul (Praxis) Heart (the omnigraal) and brain (Transpineal eye) and there;s lots of philosophy running through this:
The Gautama Siddharta quote "If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.” is really prevalent here - He kills his own father literally in flashback but then he slaughters his own family again in his dealing with the Transpineal eye.
There are also a lot of other metaphysical ideas and mythology at play - we have the Omphal - the beating heart of the Ennead (universe) - Omphal referring to the Greek Omphale? I quite like that metaphor because No-Name can be read as a Hercules figure at the whim of the universe, just as Herc was the slave of Omphale. And the Ennead reminds me of the Aeneid - the epic about a character who goes on to found Rome - and our story here is about a cypher character who attains great power, suffers loss and looks set to change the universe. The section where he cuts through the labyrinth to forge ahead to his goal is reminiscent of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot - And lets not forget he fights Dragons and gets possession of the omnigraal (holy grail). The Transpineal Eye is in Trafalghar alluding to Napoleon and Trafalger - So there's a whole mish-mash of heroes and epic quests thrown into this with a heavy dash of philosophy. While I applaud that I just didn't feel this one was quite as successful at mixing its different homages to create something suitably unique and new.
There are also a couple of bits I didn't quite 'get' - The defeat of the Transpineal Eye - it clones various things including No-Name and finally his ship - but I'm really unclear on its defeat - I think he gets the ship to send out a false image that the clone copies and destroys itself - but its so rushed and unclear! just as anticlimatic is the ending - Is he the 4th weapon? It leaves this very open for sequels and feels unfinished.
This one is very much for fans and part of an ongoing saga. It's not the best introduction to the Jodoverse, but still, if you like the Metabarons quite enjoyable....more
The metabarons came about after Jodorowsky's ambitious project to film Frank Herbert's Dune failed. As such quite a bit of the Dune essence bleeds thrThe metabarons came about after Jodorowsky's ambitious project to film Frank Herbert's Dune failed. As such quite a bit of the Dune essence bleeds through into this SF epic: The mysterious Epyphite reminded me a bit of spice and we have the twisted agenda of the whore priestesses - who are basically the Bene Gesserit, this also has all the politics, barons and psychic powers you associate with Dune. However the Metabarons goes beyond it's origins into something uniquely its own.
One of the ways it does this is with the quirky narrative technique. The multi-generational saga is relayed to us via two robots with a kind of C3PO/R2D2 comedy double act going on. If you're familiar with MST3K that's also in the same kind of vein. So these droids are the servants of the current metabaron 'No Name' and pass the time awaiting their master's return by one droid telling the other of the metabaron's history. This mixes up the pace - we go from the lol comedy of the droids to seriously dark space opera including incest, mutilation, sacrifice and death - I quite like the fluctuating tone it makes things interesting. The narrators are also significant and I won't give you spoilers, however we do get a twist I did not see coming which makes these two integral parts of the saga - they are not just a random narrative technique.
Gimenez' art isn't as breathtaking as some of Jodorowsky's other collaborators (I'm a big fan of his work with Moebius and Beltran) however its still good. I particularly love the supra-lice ship and it's vampiric queen - fans of organic ships (like Lexx and Moya etc) are going to love this.
Like any prequel/history spanning several generations, the metabarons is a bit repetitive and pretty dark (each generation having to die). It also fails to make any real point other than to lead us up to the present. As a narrative its not as interesting as say Incal or Megalex which is why it only gets 4* However It is still brilliant - The characters are all wonderfully well developed and this does an excellent job of exploring their psyche, Its also twisted, dark and set in a fully realised SF universe ranking up there with the greats.
Fans of Dune, The epic of Gilgamesh and of course European comics and Heavy Metal Magazine really aren't going to want to miss this....more
In the far future most of the adventurous warriors have left Earth which is now a hedonistic, blinkered dystopia (I envisage like 2000AD only without In the far future most of the adventurous warriors have left Earth which is now a hedonistic, blinkered dystopia (I envisage like 2000AD only without the Judges) - Authority comes in the form of an ineffectual, cowardly prime minister who wants to do nothing more than feel up his female staff and play golf.
A mysterious alien sphere appears which is ignored by everyone except a few concerned scientists who learnt is the forerunner of an alien invasion. The beautiful and Deadly Mazon claim they created the Earth and now that their home-world is destroyed they wish to reclaim the planet, destroying its occupants. Dogged scientist Diaba has evidence which he constantly tries to get to the Prime Minister, who refuses to listen. Diaba is murdered by the Mazon and it's left to his son Tadashi to take up where his father left off.
Tadashi joins forces with Captain Harlock and his crew - Earth's last defender who has had to turn Pirate since the Earth government have their head in the sand and refuse to sanction him.
So this one's mainly all set up. I like Shimaboshi's art which is very caricature at times and works nicely with some of the satirical characters.
White it's not yaoi, Anyone who's seen the movie will know how marvellously slashy this is: Harlock/Tadashi - there's not too much obvious in this volume but Harlock is as dashing dandy - I like his rescue of Tadashi and of course there are bits which could easily be construed in such a way, such as the panel:
On that ship we fight together, laugh together... live together and someday... unashamed of our own hearts we will be victorious together.
**spoiler alert** I think the thing that has shocked me most about the Kraken Wakes is that it has never once been filmed. It's basically war of the W**spoiler alert** I think the thing that has shocked me most about the Kraken Wakes is that it has never once been filmed. It's basically war of the Worlds with aliens coming from the sea instead of the skies and we've had umpteen versions of WotW but not one of this. The two reasons I can think of - 1) it's too similar to WotW and 2) it's less visual - we never get to see the aliens only their tools - the sea tanks and the wonderfully tentacular pseudo-coelenterata. Still I think it's a crying shame this has never reached our screens.
I like it's very Britishness - the rivalry of the EBC and the BBC and the scenes of a flooded London are great and I like the two protagonists being journalists. Wyndham also constantly surprises me by how feminist he is. While this isn't as marked as The trouble with Lichen, Phyllis is still a force to be reckoned with here - she gets the upper hand most of the time, she's highly intelligent and is not above using her feminine wiles to get information. She also has great foresight and the fact that she goes off to do some therapeutic bricklaying was surprising enough until you learn later that she's basically constructed a secret bunker and food store - on her own! Considering when this was written - 1953, it really is quite modern in it's female characters. I also really like some of the supporting characters - the Cassandra like Professor Bocker - who is invariably correct but nobody ever believes him and the vile, blinkered Petunia (Tuny) who is adamant the Russians are behind everything and will hear nothing to the contrary.
Ending, as with WotW is a bit of a fizzle, but up until that point I thought this was doing great and I like the way humanity is flummoxed by a totally alien threat that doesn't play by what we consider the rules of warfare.
I love the concept of this novel - the day that time stood still for Midwich is superbly creepy, followed by the subsequent pregnancies and then the 'I love the concept of this novel - the day that time stood still for Midwich is superbly creepy, followed by the subsequent pregnancies and then the 'daytouched' strange children. It's all so wonderfully visual - there's a reason why this one is so iconic.
As well as a blindingly good story, this plays about with some interesting ideas about morality, culpability, how we should cope with an utterly superior force, who come to us not in the form of Tripod Martians, but in the guise of innocents.
"We are all, you see, toys of the life-force. It made you numerically strong, but mentally undeveloped; it made us mentally strong, but physically weak: now it has set us at one another, to see what will happen... Cruelty is as old as life itself."
I love alien invasion stories in general, but I love the spin Wyndham puts on that idea - it's more insidious somehow. And I like how man is not only fighting an alien threat, but his civilised instincts as well.
This is the sequel to the wonderful 'Trail of the White Worm' and picks up from the cliffhanger of The Master opening a wormhole to let in a hellish aThis is the sequel to the wonderful 'Trail of the White Worm' and picks up from the cliffhanger of The Master opening a wormhole to let in a hellish alien invasion.
Oh dear. What a let down! For inspiration this picks up themes from The Android Invasion (1975) The portal leads to Oseidon where a bunch of Kraal and their android minions invade - but it's all a ruse to divert the attention from the Master's real plans....
The plot is over-complicated with android doppelgangers all over the place and unmaskings worthy of Scooby-Doo. I could deal with that if it was a good story but sadly it's a bit lame - This is The Doctor and his nemesis the Master! - there's so much fodder here for wit, out manoeuvring each other and the Doctor showing off his intellect with a worthy opponent - I didn't feel that at all here. The Master's plot bored me and I just wasn't feeling the electricity between our two Timelords.
Trail of the White Worm was so good because of its source material - throwing in Hammer, Lair of the White Worm and adding the Doctor to make something new and exciting. There's no myth or literary references in the Oseidon Adventure - it's all Who, and Who at it's most alien - While it's true to cannon without the outside references it weakens audience connection somehow. This is hard sci-fi where as the better Who stuff is a hybrid of horror, drama, fantasy with SF elements.
Saying that it's not awful - as ever the cast do a decent job. I liked the voices of the Kraal and Baker goes without saying. I think i was most disappointed in The Master who wasn't nearly evil or insidious enough. The biggest highlight are the pop culture references - like the colonel's demands to shut down the BBC and abolish free school milk. And there's a comedy gem at the end where it's revealed that the horse that's been stolen by the Kraal is in fact Shergar. That made me giggle.
Overall though - meh. Sadly one of the weaker Tom Baker audios and such a let down after part 1....more
The Puppet Masters feels like the missing link between War of the Worlds and Invasion of the Bodysnatchers while I don't think it's quite as good as eThe Puppet Masters feels like the missing link between War of the Worlds and Invasion of the Bodysnatchers while I don't think it's quite as good as either, its still pretty awesome.
Alien parasites - giant slugs that ride on the backs of humans and take over their brains invade Earth and it is up to Spymaster Old Man Nivens, his hunky son 'Sam' and female agent Mary to make people aware of what's going on and stop the alien takeover.
So this has all the paranoia of body snatchers, but has the more alien feel of Welles, with the alien ship, how they arrive and of course the similar ending to War of the Worlds. I like the romance element and Mary's back story, but my favourite character has to be the Old Man who is so manipulative he's as much a Puppet Master as the aliens! (He's played by Donald Sutherland in the film and honestly the role could have been written for him).
**spoiler alert** I don't know why, but I always imagine SF masterworks as being dry and difficult to read - being all about ideas, story and world bu**spoiler alert** I don't know why, but I always imagine SF masterworks as being dry and difficult to read - being all about ideas, story and world building rather than the more pulpy adventure and characters. The Body Snatchers really proved me wrong. Absolutely raced through this classic tale of alien invasion told through the eyes of general practitioner Dr. Miles Bennell. It has aliens, romance, a lightening pace as well as a really good story.
I like the opening line "I warn you that what you're starting to read is full of loose ends and unanswered questions" - which kind of sets up from the outset a kind of make of this what you will tone.
Adapted for screen several times - (1956, 1978, 1993 and 2007) - the closest to the book is the original '56 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers - which is for the most part very close indeed, although the ending is slightly darker. Later adaptations have an even darker ending, particularly the '78 version. I was quite surprised that the novel has an almost 'happy' ending - Miles & Becky survive and end up together and the aliens leave of their own accord realising that they cannot defeat the human spirit - Its reminiscent almost of War of the Worlds - where the alien invasion is stopped not from might but common disease. Certainly from a cinematic POV I much prefer the more horrific ending of Body Snatchers and I think the ending is why the book gets 4 rather than 5 stars from me. Still I couldn't put this one down, and the novel certainly proves why this is such a classic and constantly being revisited over the decades.
The Tommyknockers is regarded as one of King's weakest novels and after finishing it I guess I can see why. 693 pages is FAR FAR too long for what is The Tommyknockers is regarded as one of King's weakest novels and after finishing it I guess I can see why. 693 pages is FAR FAR too long for what is essentially a very simple story - of the discovery of a crashed flying saucer in the small Town of Haven Maine. I mean - it takes over 550 pages of nothing much from initially finding the ship to FINALLY getting to see inside it sheesh!
Now don't get me wrong bits of this I absolutely adored. I love the notion of the shed and the shed people - And the scene where Gard goes in there and what he discovers... well those images will stay with me forever. Deeply chilling. I also like the concept of The Tommyknockers themselves and the notion of 'becoming'. And the magic show where Hilly accidentally transports his little brother is also really cool.
What lets this down mainly are the characters - Having a mouthy, alcoholic 'hero' who accidentally shot his wife - it's initially hard to sympathise with him. Bobbi, the western writer is ok, but not nearly interesting enough to sustain a novel - her ballsy witch of a sister Anne is far more interesting but sadly what happens to Anne is a real damp squib from her character - I was expecting so much more - similarly there are loads of other potentially interesting characters who are introduced and then summarily killed off which gets tediously annoying. The death toll in this novel is ridiculous! And after a while you begin not to care.
The other thing I hated about this are the really naff killer machines - yes it's a King trope we see time and again in his work but... A killer vending machine and vacuum cleaner etc... are a novelty in a short story but not in an epic like this - sorry its just so.... silly in the face of all the really creepy alien weirdness.
Overall I did enjoy this one and was never once tempted to set it aside but it is a real mess that's far too long and with far too many under utilised characters....more
I love the visual quality of war of the worlds - the scenes of deserted London and the rivers choked with red weed are some of the most iconic committI love the visual quality of war of the worlds - the scenes of deserted London and the rivers choked with red weed are some of the most iconic committed to fiction. I love the helplessness of the human race reduced to ants running from a seemingly unstoppable martian force. The two extreme lines of thought represented by the curate and the Artillery man are also really well handled. The Martians themselves with their mechanical carriages are just so wonderfully realised. Also love Wells' prose -
"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the world was being watched..."
that's what I call an opening.
What I hadn't ever really picked up on before was the vampric nature of the Martians:
"they took the fresh living blood of other creatures and injected it into their veins"
First ever space vampires? certainly a proto-type.
Loved every minute of WOTW - even the upbeat ending which was somewhat unexpected after the dark fatality of the rest of the story. There's something ironic about this unstoppable titan force being laid low by tiny bacteria.
Note to self, really must read more H G Wells. ...more
I picked this one up largely because I'd heard it references Tsathoggua the Lovecraftian Toad god and it starts out very lovecraftian indeed with a myI picked this one up largely because I'd heard it references Tsathoggua the Lovecraftian Toad god and it starts out very lovecraftian indeed with a mysterious suicide and the discovery of an ancient cyclopean city but there for me is where my interest stops - The novel takes an introspective turn and the parasites are of the mind, preventing man's evolution - the ancient city is merely a diversion. While I applaud what this is trying to do - looking at the malaise of modern man and attributing it to Lovecraftian monsters I got bored and bogged down with the psychology. This veers off again at the end into out and out SF and we take a trip into outer space and start messing with the moon's orbit. Ummm yeah.
I guess I wanted more of the actual toad god or real parasites. If we're going for life draining entities for outer space then Wilson does this far better in Space Vampires (filmed as Lifeforce)... The mind parasites is a great idea just didn't quite work for me....more
The final volume of what has been one of the best manga series I've read in ages. This one begins with Shinchi's showdown fight with the much strongerThe final volume of what has been one of the best manga series I've read in ages. This one begins with Shinchi's showdown fight with the much stronger Goto and then looks at what happens next.
One of this volume's biggest strengths is that the author always had a definite end point in sight - so there's very little filler or overly drawn out narrative - I'ts one concise story which is so rare in manga these days - the popular titles seeming to have endless volumes and tonnes of filler. Artwork is clean and while it's not as freaky as previous volumes really suits the story.
Pretty much thumbs up all round, solid art, fantastic story asking some really big questions. Recommended....more
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