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A Childhood Favorite Becomes a Complicated Re-Read As An Adult.

Tintin Volumes 3-23 by Hergé

January 30, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is another review where I’m unable to be unbiased because these are the ultimate nostalgia reads for me. I read these obsessively until the covers fell off when I was little. It had been a long time (15 years +) since I’d revisited them, so I asked for the complete set for Christmas to round out my library. I got the full-sized albums, not the ones where they jammed four volumes into half-sized books. Hergé’s art is worth reading at full size so you […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: action, adventure, bande dessinée, herge, tintin

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: action, adventure, bande dessinée, herge, tintin ·
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Planet hopping and robots and sex, oh my!

Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest

February 3, 2019 by pluiedenovembre Leave a Comment

Barbarella was one of the first digital comics I bought back in 2014, when I got my first tablet and realized that Google Play also sells books and often has better prices than Amazon available in my region. The only thing I knew about it was that it had inspired a movie starring Jane Fonda that I have never seen. So why did I buy it? Well, I have a bit of an Everest problem when it comes to books AND it was available in […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction Tagged With: bande dessinée, barbarella, erotic comics, French comics, jean-claude forest, sci-fi, space

pluiedenovembre's CBR11 Review No:11 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction · Tags: bande dessinée, barbarella, erotic comics, French comics, jean-claude forest, sci-fi, space ·
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