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  Comic Book: Comic Book: Fishflies Author: Jeff Lemire Issues: 7 Hard Core Scale: 4/4 Recommend: Yes. Its Great. Publish date: 2023-2025 About: A lonely girl named Franny forms an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that leads them on an odyssey of discovery and redemption. Review: Jeff Lemire again at his best. Lovely use of his black and white style and faded comics. Glad he finished this thing. Haunting use of beauty in the ugly. Character’s have lovely agency. Deep questions on ends and troubles of violence and peace. Lemire can always shove a lot in such a little package. Well worth the read, especially for the supernatural fans.    Author: Jeff Lemire Issues: 7 Hard Core Scale: 4/4 Recommend: Yes. Its Great. Publish date: 2023-2025 About: A lonely girl named Franny forms an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that leads them on an odyssey of discovery and redemption. Review: Jeff Lemire again at his best. Lovely use of his black and...

The Sten Series Author: Chris Bunch and Allan Cole  Books Eight First publish date: 1986-1993 Hard Core Scale Average: 1.7 Recommend: The series as a whole no. Books 3-5 are bit enjoyable as military espionage science fiction with some nice combat and space battles. About: Sten is born in an industrial hellhole and destined to die. Events lead to him working for the Eternal Emperor which controls all FTL. Caught up in espionage, wars, and politics of the empire what will become of him and the empire at large.  Review: A mostly poorly written and plotted series filled with time waste. Some things are fun. The technology when the author's slip and become modern technology minded to relate too closely to a modern audience is the fun kind of world structure. Aliens when they show up are frumpy, varied, and captivating. Again, space battles are very well written and fun. Sometimes there are great ground battles. Individual fighting scenes can often be weak due to the characters inv...