tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post9084112073762848285..comments2023-04-23T13:10:44.188+09:00Comments on this is how she fight start: The Violent Centurykamohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-58540248313543258332015-07-08T21:33:45.686+09:002015-07-08T21:33:45.686+09:00Thanks for stopping by and commenting. If I'd ...Thanks for stopping by and commenting. If I'd known someone else was going to engage with I'd have made a bit more effort than just throwing bullet points at the screen.<br /><br />It's definitely less, what's the word? Gratuitous? than something like The Boys, that's for sure, but then I'm still getting my ears wet wrt comics in general so couldn't make more of that comparison. Now you point it out I'd have to agree that the Tank busines wasn't especially subtle (perhaps unsurprisingly, given he's called Tank), It's basically a fridging, isn't it? Though with a male character, natch...<br /><br />That said, I came to this off the back of a couple of books which seemed to expect me to sympathise with the main character simply because they were the main character, so even some manufactured pathos represented an improvement. Timing is everything, eh?kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-27672641220014591262015-07-01T17:50:45.087+09:002015-07-01T17:50:45.087+09:00Like you, I found it quite nicely atmospheric (par...Like you, I found it quite nicely atmospheric (particularly the fact that the head of the British service worked out of an office where time literally stood still) but I'm not sure it did anything that hadn't been done before in actual deconstructive comic books. As someone who likes those kinds of comics, I found it all rather staid and safe. Well within my comfort zone as a comic reader.<br /><br />I also lost patience with the book when the Nazis caught up with the Allies and the book decided to follow the mistreatment of the obvious pathos-font Tank rather than the Jewish character whose name escapes me but who had turned himself into a monster by embodying all of the Vampiric qualities that the Nazis assigned to Jews in their propaganda. Tank had obviously been set up for a fall right from the start and that undermined the impact of his actual fall.Jonathan Mhttp://ruthlessculture.comnoreply@blogger.com