tahrey estee (tahrey) says: Aha! Finally registered for comments after a couple years of resisting. An international visitor, in the good ol' U of K. Got the magic package early last week, the goods commuted back and forth in my bag a couple times after the initial check over and finally got to dig in at the weekend :) Had wanted to pace myself, but... all finished already! But it has repeat read value I'd wager, after all, have already read it online... and flicking back across it (or even looking at the covers) I keep spotting additional little things - like the name of the burrito shop, or all the little foreshadowing asides Kate & Mike make to each other...

Anyway! Looks good on paper, doesn't it! Though smaller, it's so much easier to pick out all the intricate details. Strange, however, how fast it seems to flick through (well... ok... turn the pages as slowly as I can force myself to) vs reading week by week or clicking through the archives and w.a.i.t.ing for the page load. The dual media experience gives one a good appreciation of the sheer effort that goes into this and other graphic novels that may otherwise get taken for granted, what with the speed you can get through it on the printed page (man, Otomo, Miyazaki & Lee must be onto their third robot arm each by now!)

Torn whether to pass them around to friends and try to get them into it (it's kind of hit here at just the right time what with the mainstream ready for a ... erm... shift from vamps to lycos, with ol' Benicio giving it up on the silver screen and a new series of Being Human playing at home) or just throw them the address and encourage them to drop a few notes for whatever remaining copies you may have. No way they're going to get mine to keep though, not after my the coffee finally kicked in (...today) and I realised a/ there were drawings on the inner title pages, b/ they were actual signings with a pen, not prints! And there I thought I'd missed the chance by jumping in after the pre-order period - nice touch, thanks! :D (Pretty damn good for a few seconds from completely cold, direct to ink - shows how practiced you are with these guys now!)

Glad to see good things coming of all this after such a lot of graft... Maybe the way things are in hollywood we'll get that movie version yet!
(Only problem is, the trailers, previews and reviews would spoil all of the surprises - if I get anyone into this, I'm going to let slip as little as possible, in fact any links would be to page one and an instruction to "read forwards from here. no peeking"; I'm detecting something of an X-Files influence in not giving the full reveal and confirmation of What's What until 20-ish pages before the end of pt3!)

"Can't" wait, but am happy to do so, to see what comes next, or what different directions you branch off into after this.

Cheers & good luck
"rar!" >:3