I finished Blindsight since the last thread. It's definitely the spookier and better written book of the two but there's a hell of a lot of crossover in the basic story set-up. Appreciate that's because author wants to write from a "real" human observer or feels that's the only way to do justice to the ideas he's working through but I could see it getting repetitive if Rifters is like that too.
Would make a great film actually, sort of current industrial sci-fi. Hope someone tries it sometime.
speaking of, I didn't read Strange Adventures
Rifters is much rougher and less polished but a breezier read, also has some "holy shit" John Barnes-level of more normatively fucked up people in it
I swear I have a pb copy of Starfish around here somewhere, or maybe I used to
Hey, speaking of Adam Strange, who's ready for Tom King to make him edgy and depressed?
I'm more waiting for it to turn out that Adam really is full of shit and a rat bastard, than anything else
reminder that Parker fixed Alanna after Lemire did ????? with her
I'll probably get around to them eventually. Even though the book was IMO overall better Jukka was sadly not as sexy/scary as Valerie so I'm down for more psychopaths.
I agree with you reading Blindsight first, even though I didn't, it scores the central alien horror point a lot better. Echopraxia is really only a companion piece when it comes to that.
"BTW our boss is a bastard, watch out for him"
I'm honestly gonna hate Tom King Adam Strange so much because fuck if you can't do fun things with high concept military sci-fi but fuck if TK isn't just going to give us Iraq War PTSD again.
I'll give it some credit that's it not as complete shit as Mister Miracle.
Because, really, Mister Miracle had one of the worst first issues I've ever read.
But it's still so full of his hacky pitfalls.