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Fumi Yoshinaga, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, vols. 1-2: After a plague leaves very few men alive in Edo-period Japan, the shogunate (as well as everything else) is controlled by women, and the shogun maintains an enormous group of men simply to serve her. The first volume deals with new entrants into the Inner Chambers when this system has been going on for decades, while the second flashes back to the beginning, when no one outside yet knew that the shogun was a woman and, at her whim, a young priest was conscripted into her service. It’s a very interesting story, though I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to the convention of having semi-representational art turn cartoony at moments of anger/embarrassment. Warnings for rape.
Neil Gaiman et al., Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?: Apparently this was the last of the originally numbered Batman/Detective Comics. The choice was to tell multiple death stories, and to use multiple styles mimicking those of earlier artists/eras. None of it really worked for me, I’m afraid, but Selina Kyle gets to kick things off, and I did like the opening sequence where all the big bads arrive for Batman’s funeral and the way they treat their cars is a summary of their characters. Two-Face’s car is particularly effective.
Neil Gaiman et al., Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?: Apparently this was the last of the originally numbered Batman/Detective Comics. The choice was to tell multiple death stories, and to use multiple styles mimicking those of earlier artists/eras. None of it really worked for me, I’m afraid, but Selina Kyle gets to kick things off, and I did like the opening sequence where all the big bads arrive for Batman’s funeral and the way they treat their cars is a summary of their characters. Two-Face’s car is particularly effective.
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The style in which it's translated doesn't get any less annoying...
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