Review: Justice League/Power Rangers (2017-) #1

Justice League/Power Rangers (2017-) #1 by Tom Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Solo le pongo 5 estrellas por la nostalgia.
He amado a los Power Rangers desde que tenía 10 años, así que verlos ahora con la Liga de la Justicia es algo que mi fanatismo no me dejó perderme.
A decir verdad, al arte le falta detalle. Hay una viñeta en la que Zack aparece descolorido y sin el sello del Mastodonte en el pecho, juré que era un nuevo Ranger Azul Marino o algo parecido. Los Rangers no se parecen tanto a los actores en quienes están basados (y si, hasta JDF se reconoce ahí) y algunos looks fueron adaptados al 2016, pero sin duda, esa línea de Flash al final de este número uno, valió la leída. Espero el siguiente número para resolver este cliffhanger...

"¡Un pterodáctilo robot volador color rosa secuestró a Batman!"

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Review: Laura & Dino

Laura & Dino by Alberto Montt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Mis tiras favoritas de Laura y Dino juntas, impresas con calidad, para disfrutar una y otra vez.
Me encanta, simplemente me encanta la relación que tienen Laura y Dino, como cosas tan sencillas pueden ser tan profundas o no, y aunque hay una que otra opinión que no comparto, me encanta ver como se relacionan estos dos seres hermosos.
Montt definitivamente sabe como hacer reír. Recomendado al 100%

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Review: A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Such a lovely and wonderful work!
It is as much as for stories as for healing. Ness first got me with his beautiful way to start a book...
"and now it's time to hand the baton on to you. Stories don't end with the writers, however many started the race. Here's what Siobhan and I came up with. So go. Run with it.
Make trouble"
and then with
"Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt."
This one, surely did it to me. Particularly because I lost someone in the same way recently. I could totally identify with Conner, and understand how afraid was he to make conscious that truth in particular. How he wanted not to be excluded by this situtation and yet, he was invisible.
He was full of anger, and that was not bad, nor good. He just needed to heal, and that is why a healing tree (yew) came to his help.
The road for him may be yet hard, but at least he was ready to face it thanks to the monster.
As for the way in which Patrick Ness tells the story, is simply delightful. Quite easy to read and keep the pace, but I think is truly meant to be read in one sitting, so you don't lose track of the actions and thoughts happening in the story.
It reminded me what my sister (who's a psychologist) always says: "the words heal", that is the reason why I think, Connor has to listen to stories, and to understand them. Luckly later the Monster explains them, because I was as lost as the main character. But yet I could understand that deep and hard message at the end, on how to accept your own feelings towards the inevitable of cancer.
Highly recommended.

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Review: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories Vol. 2

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Este volumen si me gustó. El primero es una historia en la que Luna se enamora de un humano y las chicas le regalan el poder tomar esa forma una vez más. La segunda historia es acerca de la melancolía a través de una canción de una lámpara, la cual Rei puede resistir, y además el porqué se resiste a enamorarse y recibir flores el día de su cumpleaños. Al final, Rei entiende que sus almas gemelas son sus amigas, que a pesar de ser muy diferentes entre sí y a ella, tienen un lazo indestructible.
La última historia fue la que menos me gusto, pero también me pareció divertida. Primero por el hecho de que las familias de las Sailors tuvieron que... dar una gran dote... a sus yernos, y de ahí, que cada una de ellas tuviera una hija a la que le pusieron su nombre. El detalle de la gatita rosa también me pareció tierno. Sin embargo esta historia carece de profundidad y parece existir solamente para diversión tanto de la mangaka como de los fans.
Pero la de Luna y el amante de la princesa Kaguya me pareció hermosa, la mejor de las historias cortas de Sailor Moon.


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Review: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories Vol. 1

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

No se qué esperaba de este, pero algo no me llenó. Son historias fuera de arco argumental, que tienen como protagonistas a las Sailor Scouts y en las cuales, llegan a romper la cuarta barrera. Me gustaron la de Minako y Rei y la de Ami. Quizá esperaba saber que les pasó a las chicas después del último reinicio del universo que tuvieron.

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Review: The Mark of Athena

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I like how Percy and Annabeth have grown, and how they are fighting to have a future together. Percy and Jason go a long way in this one to fight alongside and truly unite greeks and romans.
I simply like how Riordan plots his storylines, how everything fits, and how well researched the myths are. But also, how each character has a voice that is different from the others, a characteristic that makes them unique and necessary.
My favorite part was when Baco showed up to se the show of Percy and Jason fighting the gigants. The most heartbreaking part was Percy not letting go of Annabeth, because that shows us how much have they grown as couple and as heroes.
Everyone has a part to play... and although usually two thirds of the book are settlement for the last third, this formula still attracts me... and I enjoy it a lot!

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Review: The Hammer of Thor

The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I cannot express the love I have for Rick Riordan and all his characters, I simply cannot give a not biased recommendation for any of his books.
People that know me know about my love for myths, legends, and nordic culture, so I was more than naturally attracted to this story. I long waited for the book to arrive to my local bookstore and It took me long to read it (a month) but it was worthy.
Magnus is a great character full of positive traits, healing and the killing looks of Kurt Cobain (mentioned twice in this book). While all the characters have conflicts, my favorites remain to be Otis the goat that goes to the psychologist and now, Alex Fierro. I like Alex not because of the gender fluid, but because of the way of embracing the true self, the fluidity associated with being a child of Loki, and the clothing, that choice of green and pink is a winner in any context (or ask the Power Rangers).
Loki is another great character, he is as he's supposed to be, a trickster, plotter planning, clever puppeter that in this particular book creates a complex stratagem to set himself free.
I hope that Rudolph has now what he wanted and that Sigyn has a bigger role in the next book, because I like her as the goddess of Fidelity.
Well in this one, the heroes are trying to retrieve the Hammer of Thor (that he lost yet again) and most of the story revolves around our heroes trying to discover where it is. Utgar-Loki guides them (not without threatening their lives) to put the pieces together and figure out what are they set to do. Then they are to reenact a part of the Nordic Mythology that is quite settled in the collective memory, the time that Thor dressed as bride and accompanied by Loki fooled Thyrm to retrieve Mjolnir, but this time, Magnus, Sam and Alex were present. Sif was a fair representation, I liked her too.
I found it nice that Rick included Loki as woman and that Alex is born from Loki's female form, it was a nice detail.
There are storylines that need to be solved: Hearth's father and the rune, the curse of the ring, the fate of Rudolph and obviously the Ship of the Dead... but what I look forward is the Norse gods meeting the Greek/Roman gods as Percy meets Magnus in the next installment!
I just want to read it again (already!) because is one of those books in which actions just seem to happen just because they have to happen, but you can't put down, or at least, I feel it that way.

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