Dinara Tengri

Title: Love: The Dinosaur Authors:  Federico Bertolucci, Frédéric Brrémaud (Illustrator) Year of publishing: 2015 Publisher: Ankama Source: I requested this book on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was combing though the "read now" section on NetGalley, looking for some easy reads, when I stumbled upon this comic book. The first thing that got my attention was the cover art. Obviously. I mean, look at it! I was also intrigued by the title. Why was a comic book that was evidently about dinosaurs titled "Love"? I didn't know, but I intended to find out.  Love is by far one of the most unusual books I have read. No, scratch that. It's one of the most unusual books I have seen, because you cannot technically read it: there is not one line of dialogue or any written word in it, if you don't count the info page in the beginning.  How do you create a story with no dialogue or narration? How do you create a story if all of your charact...

How can I not write something Halloween-related on Halloween night? And even though I didn't initially plan on posting anything tonight, it was last night that I realised that I didn't have any other choice. So. today, after school I dug into my secret comic book stash, and I read Home Again - the now unofficial sequel to the gory The X-files episode I reviewed last night. Not to be confused with the live-action season 10 episode about a murderous trash-sculpture.  Here's what I think: The artwork is amazing. Mulder, Scully, and Skinner look exactly like their real-life counterparts, which really helps to get their voices right when you read the dialogue. The visual accuracy, the attention to the details, the dark and brown-ish colour pallete - it all helps to re-create the dirty and depressing atmosphere of the original episode.  As for the story... well, it seems like the writers tried to splice together two completely different stories, and it all came...