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Review: Metropo

By Thea Srinivasan

Whenever we look for answers, we always hope that it’s always going to be simple. Even if we find the answer, we know it in our minds. But how many times do we truly comprehend the answer? Knowing and understanding are two very different things, and it’s one of the hardest concepts to grasp. But for this particular comic, the line tends to blur between knowing, understanding and predicting something from what we know. Before I continue with this review, the following book is an anthology of written and illustrated stories. It is necessarily a comic but a collection of tales from different mediums. If you do not find the idea of written stories or anthologies appealing, I’d suggest you stop reading this review.

Smrithi S 3/1/18 Smrithi S 3/1/18

Review: Little Apple vol. 1

By Thea Srinivasan

Honest children are easy to come by. But blunt children are the rarest of them all. This child has a breadth of knowledge to the point she knows how to blend her knowledge with reality. It’s very rare to see anyone be able to speak the truth with eloquence and be able to open anyone’s eyes to what needs to change. It’s very rare to find a girl who is a revolutionary set against the world.

Smrithi S 2/23/18 Smrithi S 2/23/18

Review: SP Baby vol. 1

By Thea Srinivasan

Bodyguards are usually meant for a special set of people who constantly need to be protected. But what if someone asked you to be their bodyguard? Would you take the job if the money and training were great? As someone who isn’t athletic, I would probably get the person I’m protecting in trouble within the first five minutes of being with them. Plus, it doesn’t help that I’m not long and lean like many other bodyguards who tower over the person their protecting. In reality, though, I often see many stories about male bodyguards protecting females specifically. It isn’t often I see a story where a female is protecting a male.

Smrithi S 2/20/18 Smrithi S 2/20/18

Review: Scared by the Bell #1

By Thea Srinivasan

Scared by the Bell has brought up a lot of nostalgic memories from my middle school years. I remembered trying to fit in with my classmates, going through puberty, feeling like an outsider and navigating the multiple classes at my school. But I don’t think I’ve ever had a werewolf or a vampire in my class. If that were the case, every teenage girl would be swooning over them as if they were the next teen hunk to lead them into an epic romance.

Smrithi S 2/7/18 Smrithi S 2/7/18

Review: Any One Of Us #2

By Thea Srinivasan

Adrestia has come back into the picture with even more action and an extra dose of humanity ironically enough. But I cannot go any further with this review without a warning. For anyone who has not read the first comic, please do not read this review. This is your only spoiler warning for this review. Turn back now if you DON’T want spoilers. Also, this particular issue will contain very triggering, graphic content in terms of murder, rape, and PTSD. For these reasons, I highly do not recommend this particular comic for anyone who cannot handle such macabre content

Smrithi S 2/7/18 Smrithi S 2/7/18

Review: The Mercenary #1

By Thea Srinivasan

Although this comic was written over several years ago, its charm and beautiful scenery, art, and logic to the world makes it worth so much in the present. I will have to give a viewer discretion for this particular comic as features naked women and violence. This is my only warning for a viewer’s discretion before I go on.

Smrithi S 1/29/18 Smrithi S 1/29/18

Review: The Water Dragon's Bride Vol. 1

By Thea Srinivasan

This is going to be really strange to say, but seeing a child growing up within a matter of one volume makes enjoy this manga even more. It’s a really bad thing to say when everything is falling apart for one character, but I think that brings more emotion within the reader themselves. It’s almost like they’re a spectator for the godlike author. But really, what I’ve read in one volume makes me hope for more to come.

Smrithi S 1/29/18 Smrithi S 1/29/18

Review: Söngr #1

By Thea Srinivasan

For the first time in my life, I listened to Led Zeppelin. While I will never fall in love with them, I now understand why the authors of this piece chose to showcase their lyrics. But are the lyrics what readers want to read? Or are they just another menagerie of long-held desires by the author?

Smrithi S 1/23/18 Smrithi S 1/23/18

Review: Takane & Hana vol. 1

By Thea Srinivasan

One 26 year old man with a giant ego and one 16 year old girl with a backbone leads to a recipe of a long-winded, comedic cat and mouse chase. Shoujo mangas are one of my greatest guilty pleasures of all time. Next to Korean dramas, I love the tropes of a good shoujo manga and this one did a decent job of creating its spin with unlikely, fun characters.

Smrithi S 1/23/18 Smrithi S 1/23/18

Review: Discord

By Thea Srinivasan

I’ve always been a fan of the multiverse theory. The idea that that multiple universes always made me curious to the possibilities that exist beyond certain boundaries. While the idea of universes created by various timelines irks me, I am always wondering what could lie beyond our universe and space. (I still get nightmares of seeing a version of myself.) Discord happens to be one such comic that helps me to wrap my head around the concept of various universes beyond everything I know that is logical.

Smrithi S 1/15/18 Smrithi S 1/15/18

Review: Any One of Us #1

By Thea Srinivasan

The amount of internal dialogue in this comic makes me want to burst into tears of happiness. “Any One of Us” by Killian McKellen and Nikita Vasilchuk is a piece that’s got enough art, mystery, and bloodthirstiness to make me satisfied for the next three months. There really isn’t much to say about this piece. Rather, it’s more about the growth of one character only compared to one character interacting with several others. Unfortunately, this story is violent enough that anyone under the age of 13 SHOULD NOT read this book without the consent of a legal guardian. So for any young readers, ask your elders for permission before reading this book.

Smrithi S 1/15/18 Smrithi S 1/15/18

Review: The Resurrected #1

By Thea Srinivasan

Clean, crisp and quiet. The three words that I use, to sum up, “The Resurrected” by Christian Carnouche. The tale is compacted into 24 pages and unfortunately does not give everything to be classified as a “book.” Instead, I consider this beginning to be chapter one of a potential long-standing sci-fi thriller that just makes you want to keep exploring the creator’s mind. But in any case, I’m glad the author let his imagination create an alternative future that wasn’t globally post-apocalyptic nor was entirely technologically realistic. The way Carnouche created his world reminded me of a combination between “The Fifth Element” and “Ben 10” with the use of futuristic and sci-fi elements. But I must digress in the fact that the story does live it up to the three words.