Showing posts with label Steampunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steampunk. Show all posts

Friday, May 10, 2013

The Clockwork Girl


Title: The Clockwork Girl
Genre: Steampunk/fantasy/all-ages
Created by: Kevin Hanna and Sean O'Reilly
Publisher: Arcana Studios
Year: 2007-2008
Issues: 00-04 (complete)

PROMO: Having sold more than 300,000 copies in a series of five comic books, The Clockwork Girl is now a luscious graphic novel. It’s a tale unlike any other, a journey into a faraway land where the Clockwork Girl lives—a ticking robot girl with mechanical limbs and a voice of her own.
Against all odds, she finds companionship in Huxley, the amazing mutant circus boy who risks his life to be with her. Together they tackle questions like what man can feel that a machine or mutant can’t, what loneliness is, and what love is.
But can a robot girl feel true love? Will this futuristic Romeo and Juliet survive the threats of their warring families?

REVIEW: Retko kada čovek naleti na nešto ovoliko lepo i duboko humano, što ga natera da zastane, uspori i voli život. Ovo je kratka i stara, ko zna koliko puta do sada ispričana priča, samo odenuta u novo ruho i ponuđena gladnima. Ukoliko volite "Čarobnjak iz Oza", "Alisu u zemlji čuda" i slične klasike, svakako ćete i u priči o curi od zupčanika i zavrtnja (simpatično nazvanoj Tesla) naći ponešto za sebe. 
Suštinski šekspirovska priča o dve zavađene porodice, obe posvećene sanjarskom cilju stvaranja veštačkog života. Ciljevi isti, ali putanje do njih sasvim drugačije - jedna okrenuta nauci, progresu i hladnom čeliku, druga prirodnjačka, ekološka. Jedan namrgođeni starac do novog života pokušava doći hefestovskim, a drugi frankenštajnovskim metodama. Lagana simbolika tako ugodna današnjem svetu u kome se priroda i tehnologija neprekindo sukobljavaju. 
No, nema potrebe širiti priču pretencioznostima, jer ovo je ipak ljubavna storija, nevina i prelepa, usto upakovana u predivni crtež i tople boje.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Robotika


Title: Robotika
Genre: Fantasy/Steampunk
Story&Art: Alex Sheikman
Publihser: Archaia Studios Press
Year: 2005-2006
Issues: 01-04 of 04
Rate: 85/100

PROMO: Alex Sheikman Niko, the Steampunk Samurai, is in Her Majesty's service. But is he a faithful royal bodyguard or a for-hire yojimbo? A perfect warrior, or a soulless weapon? Follow Niko on his journey of self-discovery with Uri Bronski and Cherokee Geisha as they discover a world filled by silent samurai, fast-talking geisha, deadly mecha-betsushikime, digital dijhits, and morphing butterflies.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Legends: The Enchanted


Title: Legends - The Enchanted
Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Steam-punk
Story&Art: Nick Percival
Publisher: Radical Comics
Issues/Pages: 103
Year: 2010
Rate: 78/100

PROMO: Named Best Graphic Novel of 2010 by Horror News.
Violently ripped from the pages of folklore, the Enchanted emerge.  This band of supernatural immortals inhabits a twisted steam-punk realm infested by nightmarish creatures.  A place where nature, technology and foul magic are in constant conflict.  When the mutilated remains of the half-wooden, half-mechanical warrior Pinocchio are discovered, wolf-hunter Red Hood and giant-killer Jack realize that their protective spell of immortality has been broken.  Jack and Red, with the help of the mercenary, Goldilocks, and psychic exterminators Hansel and Gretel, team up on an adventure to stop whatever, or whoever, is eliminating their powers and destroying their kind.


REVIEW: Priču sasvim dobro sumira ovaj pasus iz promo materijala, pa meni ostaje da kažem da suštinski nije u pitanju nekakav spaktakl i da je, kada pričamo o adaptiranju i modernizaciji bajki, strip svet video i nešto ubedjivije priče, ali, Legends: The Enchanted je i više nego pristojan komad i to može da zahvali pre svega vanrednom izgledu - verujte mi, da mi neko ponudi da biram između bilo koje strane ovog stripa i rasne, prirodne, u predelu grudnog koša obdarene crnke, izabrao bih šareno parče stripa i s njim vodio ljubav celu noć!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lady Mechanika


Title: Lady Mechanika
Genre: Steampunk, Sci-Fi
Story/Artwork: Joe Benitez
Color: Peter Steigerwald
Publisher: Aspen MLT
Issues/pages: issues 00-03, ongoing
Year: 2010-

ENGLISH(promo): "The tabloids dubbed her "Lady Mechanika", the sole survivor of a serial killer's three-year rampage through England. Authorities found her locked in an abandoned laboratory amidst an undeterminable number of corpses and body parts, her own limbs having been amputated and replaced with mechanical components."

 

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