Treason / Hellboy
Apr. 7th, 2004 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishOrson Scott Card, Treason
Found a cheap copy of a fifteen-year-old Card book at Tcon. I hadn't read Treason since leaving Fayettehell, but the topic of slowtime had come up in conversation recently, so when I saw it. . .
It's pretty good. A nice reminder that Card at one time could put words together in an entertaining fashion. The main villains aren't even hinted at 'til halfway through the book, and the main character is more Hero than Character, but the prose flows well, and the ideas are interesting. I'll keep it around; in another fifteen years I may want to read it again.
Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy
Remember X-Men? Hellboy is like that, only Wolverine is red and gets about twice as much screen time.
Good stuff. Abe Sapien [and yes, his is the voice of David Hyde Pierce] in particular rocks; Hellboy himself is a bit too angst-filled, but he still gets to make with the snappy commentary. ["I'm not really liking the sound of that 'Hound of the Resurrection' part."] The plot is very loosely based on Seed of Destruction; there's a clockwork Nazi assassin backing up Rasputin and the the obligatory Nazi ice-bitch.
The fight with the clockwork and the Big Battle with the squamous horror both felt . . . anticlimactic, I guess. They looked good but didn't quite maintain enough tension. Everything leading up to them is a lot of fun, though. I may see it again; I probably won't buy it unless there's a decent chunk of goodies on the DVD.
Found a cheap copy of a fifteen-year-old Card book at Tcon. I hadn't read Treason since leaving Fayettehell, but the topic of slowtime had come up in conversation recently, so when I saw it. . .
It's pretty good. A nice reminder that Card at one time could put words together in an entertaining fashion. The main villains aren't even hinted at 'til halfway through the book, and the main character is more Hero than Character, but the prose flows well, and the ideas are interesting. I'll keep it around; in another fifteen years I may want to read it again.
Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy
Remember X-Men? Hellboy is like that, only Wolverine is red and gets about twice as much screen time.
Good stuff. Abe Sapien [and yes, his is the voice of David Hyde Pierce] in particular rocks; Hellboy himself is a bit too angst-filled, but he still gets to make with the snappy commentary. ["I'm not really liking the sound of that 'Hound of the Resurrection' part."] The plot is very loosely based on Seed of Destruction; there's a clockwork Nazi assassin backing up Rasputin and the the obligatory Nazi ice-bitch.
The fight with the clockwork and the Big Battle with the squamous horror both felt . . . anticlimactic, I guess. They looked good but didn't quite maintain enough tension. Everything leading up to them is a lot of fun, though. I may see it again; I probably won't buy it unless there's a decent chunk of goodies on the DVD.