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Some of the stories made me morose, but most of them made me grin.
Alumas boas, algumas ruins. O desenho não é dos meus preferidos, mas podia ter mias umas 100 páginas que eu ia continuar lendo.
Box Brown's art is great, but his stories are thin and none of them really dig beneath their surface level strangeness. What's most interesting is that Brown turned to telling relatively straightforward biographies (and has done a great job with those).
I love Box Brown’s biographies of Andre the Giant and Andy Kauffman. I’m not a gamer so his Tetris book, not so much, though his artwork is always bright and sharp and attractive and everywhere he is both earnest and light-hearted. He makes me smile. I’m not primarily a sci-fi guy and An Entity Observes All Things is a weird sci-fi shorts collection, a range of stuff, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes silly. * I liked and found a little moving “Memorexia,” a futuristic tale where you can go in a C...
I didn't get it. :(
Definitely not what I was expecting. I’ve read all of BB’s nonfiction graph novs. This shirt anthology collection mostly felt weird and trippy and not my thing. But it had a certain je ne sais quoi.
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I wasn't prepared for the "Black Mirror" meets "Love, Death & Robots" short form stories and the impact they left well after I finished reading them. The surrealist and, often uncomfortable, series of stories jump started my mind to making bleak connections within our current post-modern-techno dystopia. I loved the time this book spent in my hands.
I got a great deal out of this. The art and writing are both slightly odd in equal measure and it works.
Nice little collection of unrelated vignettes. Pretty good
3.5 stars - I enjoyed this collection, but feel like I'll need another read-through to more fully appreciate and understand it.
One quick note: this book features a few stories (perhaps all) that were published at one point as standalone zines. I owned one (Memorexia) and am happy to have one of my favorite zones included in a sturdier format. Box is at his best here articulating his ideas in direct and unique ways. This compilation serves as a great introduction to his work or as an necessary addition to any fan.
Possibly too weird for me to comprehend. Certainly like nothing else I’ve ever read.
box brown is box brown is box brown. i like box brown.
I like me some strange comics, but this was less visceral and more confusing and there didn't appear to be much that really tied together the various narratives in the book.
The first story made me cry, which I was completely unprepared for. Every comic in this book is a gem.
I must have read the description when I bought this but I still thought it was going to be nonfiction, so it was a nice surprise to read these very funny weird stories.
There wasn't much here. Most of the short stories - I might even say all of them - were just a bunch of stuff happening, with no real beginning, nor end. No narrative, just... events.
I subscribe to Box Brown's reliably great Retrofit Comics, and was pleased to receive this anthology of sci-fi comics by Box himself.There's a welcome range of material on the theme, from the whimsical 'Voyage of the Golden Retriever' (which I knew before as the standalone all-ages comic 'Operation Pizza') to darker pieces that seem to extrapolate their concepts from modern obsessions ('New Physics' imagines a sort of lifestyle/deathstyle cult that relies cynically on social media).My favourite
Sharp, funny collection of sci-fi stories where the worlds are fantastical and ingenious but the humans are still shallow, self-absorbed, and kinda dumb.
