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A solarpunk world that has learned to be content and self-limiting, an unsatisfied uncertain monk who offers an ear to people's worries and exhaustions, on a charming journey seeking purpose beyond needs. A wholesome meditation on a positive future.

There isn’t much I can add to loppear@bookwyrm.social’s review; once again, Chambers is simply wonderful. Here, she is running with the wholesome if slightly insipid promise for the future Solarpunk holds to explore human condition and (not entirely incidentally, I suspect) thumb a very long nose at the whole “machine uprising” crowd. I don’t know how someone can be so relentlessly, melancholically upbeat, but I do know I had to finish this before work, and that I had a little happy cry when I did.

i wrote a joke on mastodon about how people should write an Actual anarchist cookbook and people linked me to this

@kopischke@bookwyrm.social I'm still waiting to read the third book. I liked the two first books: the world building is dense and the questions raised about gods and their deaths are interesting. The setting has a big theme about imperialism and colonization, which is an interesting theme to explore, but I sometimes felt it could have been better handled in the books. Still, on the whole I liked it.

@kopischke@bookwyrm.social Haha yeah, I remember the same thing about the drawing style. And the stories were overly complicated. And speaking of Blake and Mortimer as a gay couple, Alix and Enak are in a much weirder relationship (Lefranc and Jean-Jean not as much, they have a bigger age difference). It's always Alix rescuing an Enak, who in turn is always a victim.

@kopischke@bookwyrm.social The antagonist is Axel Borg :)

You're right about Jacobs' characters being more real. On the other hand, his drawing style is a little bit less realistic, a little bit more cartoon-ey than Martin's, which contributes to it feeling more "ageless". Jacques Martin was always pushing for details and realism (not as much as Jean Graton's Michel Vaillant), and I think he touched a little too close to the Uncanny Valley. Which is always bad…

@kopischke@bookwyrm.social we had Blake and Mortimer BD at home when I was growing up, and yeah from what I remember I pretty much agree with your review.

A comic series from that time that might not stand the test of time is Lefranc. Same école Franco-belge, published at the same time, with the same type of sci-fi settings with a leg standing in reality, combatting a same mysterious enemy that’s tall and dark-haired with interesting facial hair and a propension for treason… but way more dated IMO