Monsters and Minorities
May. 14th, 2024 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThis week, I read the first two volumes of Monstress by Margaret Liu and Sana Takeda.
It's a sprawling fantasy comic series about a young woman trying to find out what happened to her mother. There are multiple factions (Arcanics, humans, witches, Ancients, Dusk and Dawn Courts, many different queens and city leaders, etc, etc) and the protagonist, Maika, also has some kind of demon inside her that gets hungry every now and then, and violence ensues...
I found it quite difficult to begin with to keep track of all the different types and allegiances of people, as well as following what was going on with Maika.
It's quite disturbing in places, but there's also an adorable fox girl called Kippa and an amusing magical cat called Master Ren. The dynamics between Maika, Kippa and Ren are really what makes the story, and I was pretty invested by the end of Volume 2.
There are quite a lot of instalments available, though I don't think the series is finished yet. I may well carry on with it at some point, but I'm not going to launch into the rest just yet.
Last night, we went to the theatre to see an adaptation of Minority Report on stage and it was - bad... They changed the setup of the story so that it made no sense (with nobody actually seeing the future, it would be impossible for a brain scan to show that someone is going to murder someone when they don't yet have the information that provides the motive...), some of the acting was pretty ropey, the script contradicted its own rules several times, and there were inexplicable dance breaks that added nothing to either plot or atmosphere. The staging was impressive and well done - and it was only 90 minutes, with no interval. So, at least we got home pretty early - but that was about it. A real shame.
It's a sprawling fantasy comic series about a young woman trying to find out what happened to her mother. There are multiple factions (Arcanics, humans, witches, Ancients, Dusk and Dawn Courts, many different queens and city leaders, etc, etc) and the protagonist, Maika, also has some kind of demon inside her that gets hungry every now and then, and violence ensues...
I found it quite difficult to begin with to keep track of all the different types and allegiances of people, as well as following what was going on with Maika.
It's quite disturbing in places, but there's also an adorable fox girl called Kippa and an amusing magical cat called Master Ren. The dynamics between Maika, Kippa and Ren are really what makes the story, and I was pretty invested by the end of Volume 2.
There are quite a lot of instalments available, though I don't think the series is finished yet. I may well carry on with it at some point, but I'm not going to launch into the rest just yet.
Last night, we went to the theatre to see an adaptation of Minority Report on stage and it was - bad... They changed the setup of the story so that it made no sense (with nobody actually seeing the future, it would be impossible for a brain scan to show that someone is going to murder someone when they don't yet have the information that provides the motive...), some of the acting was pretty ropey, the script contradicted its own rules several times, and there were inexplicable dance breaks that added nothing to either plot or atmosphere. The staging was impressive and well done - and it was only 90 minutes, with no interval. So, at least we got home pretty early - but that was about it. A real shame.
