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Yay trades!
Virgin Comics finally has trades of Seven Brothers, Ramayan 3392 A.D., The Sadhu, and Walk-In out. I won't be able to buy them for a while, but I bet they're shiny. Real shiny.
I whole-heartedly recommend Ramayan 3392 A.D. to, like, anyone. I recommend Walk-In with slight reservations, because it's really good but it does employ some dumb sexist clichés in the storytelling and artwork. I recommend Seven Brothers with strong reservations, because while it is very very very good from a feminist perspective, it could easily be read as very, very bad from a race perspective. (Well, that depends. I'm still not sure how much Seven Brothers is mocking ugly racial stereotypes, and how much it's earnestly relying on them. The jury is still out, in my head.) And I do not recommend The Sadhu, because if I'd wanted to read Dances with Samurai transposed in colonial India, I could have just photoshopped a bunch of sadhu into screenshots of that damn movie, made up funny word bubbles and captions, and massively entertained myself that way. Instead of, you know, actually spending money on the comic book.
I wrote a long review about Seven Brothers in which I attempted to sort out my conflicted feelings about the title, saved it to my desktop, and then never got around to publishing it here. Well, one of my minor quibbles about the series was that it was so darn short. It was basically the origin story of a team of superheroes, but then it stopped at the end of the origin story. Bah, no! You can't stop at the end of the origin story, you're supposed to keep going, that's the point! But I am very encouraged by the fact that the new Seven Brothers trade is titled "Volume 1." Here's hoping that there will be more coming down the line soon. Maybe. I dunno. I still feel deeply conflicted about Seven Brothers. I want more, but I want it to not be so... oh, what's the word I'm looking for... racist? Yeah, I think that's the right word. Not so racist anymore, plz.
I whole-heartedly recommend Ramayan 3392 A.D. to, like, anyone. I recommend Walk-In with slight reservations, because it's really good but it does employ some dumb sexist clichés in the storytelling and artwork. I recommend Seven Brothers with strong reservations, because while it is very very very good from a feminist perspective, it could easily be read as very, very bad from a race perspective. (Well, that depends. I'm still not sure how much Seven Brothers is mocking ugly racial stereotypes, and how much it's earnestly relying on them. The jury is still out, in my head.) And I do not recommend The Sadhu, because if I'd wanted to read Dances with Samurai transposed in colonial India, I could have just photoshopped a bunch of sadhu into screenshots of that damn movie, made up funny word bubbles and captions, and massively entertained myself that way. Instead of, you know, actually spending money on the comic book.
I wrote a long review about Seven Brothers in which I attempted to sort out my conflicted feelings about the title, saved it to my desktop, and then never got around to publishing it here. Well, one of my minor quibbles about the series was that it was so darn short. It was basically the origin story of a team of superheroes, but then it stopped at the end of the origin story. Bah, no! You can't stop at the end of the origin story, you're supposed to keep going, that's the point! But I am very encouraged by the fact that the new Seven Brothers trade is titled "Volume 1." Here's hoping that there will be more coming down the line soon. Maybe. I dunno. I still feel deeply conflicted about Seven Brothers. I want more, but I want it to not be so... oh, what's the word I'm looking for... racist? Yeah, I think that's the right word. Not so racist anymore, plz.
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I'm trying to get my hands on India Authentic's Kali, and so far, it looks like only Virgin Comics's store carries it. I'll probably wait until HorizonComics gets it on eBay, and buy it through them.
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I agree. I like Snakewoman enough, and I think it's okay, and mostly I'm just happy that it portray a sexualized female character without being sexist. But it's not nearly as GOOD as Devi or Ramayan.
I have yet to read any India Authentic. I'm saving myself for after the vacation of doom.
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I really like India Authentic. Especially the one about Indra. I've always been a fan of the pre-Vedic/Vedic Indra more than the capricious, cowardly, skirt-chasing Indra that most people know.