Shelf on Lux Fero

Opus (1995-1996)

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:09:26 +0300

Kon’s best works are cursed, and this one is not an exeption. It explores a bunch of very complex themes and on the moment where it gets to the point of catarsis, the book just ends because of external problems

I still highly recommend everybody who is into art to read this thing. Of course it is not as profound and genius as Kon’s movies, but it is still a good as his first work with his style of breaking perception of reality. Like in the moments of panel breaking, city background just falling over like it’s made out of cardboard, or even playing with 3 levels of narrative reality

Anyway, this manga ended in the best way it could. I genuenly have no idea how else it might end other than the sudden intervention from boring reality

Understanding Comics — Invisible Art

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:38:26 +0300

It’s at the core of art that are most important question is finally asked: “Why am I doing this?”

This is a comic about comics. what can be better? Getting into the deep ends of history and the core reasons behind creativity and art itself, of course :)

Seriously, you think i had renewed this book at the library and still returned it late for “prolonging my enjoyment”? I had read it twice and later torrented the digital copy only to reread it later while taking notes

Sifu (2023) — Age 52, Student

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:26:51 +0300

For a game known for it’s difficulty this was a pretty easy and fun run. I got through it for just 4 hours and 32 deaths of which 10 were gotten from Yang, 6 from the Artist and 5 from CEO

Now i need to complete it with higher difficulty so i would curse myself for saying that it was easy >:)

Witch Hat Atelier (2026)

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:47:27 +0300

Just go and watch it. It is going to be best anime of the year

STRATO-SPEAR (2022)

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:51:55 +0300

A small prototype of a DMC-like made for a jam. Pretty good combat basis, completed in about 15-20 minutes, not too hard. Downloaded because wanted to see what else Pseudoregalia’s dev made

Pseudoregalia (2023)

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:41:36 +0300

It is a great and short game and any platformer-fan must play it. Great physics, cool moves of the heroine, atmospheric locations, retro style remenising of N64, but also no story and ultimatly lacking combat. Still it is exactly what i wanted from Motorslice’s Demo, but made good. It was a nice small game for a couple evenings of jumping around as a [goat/bunny/cat]-girl

But using bilinear filtering on textures lower res then 720p is a very bad idea, and i don’t care that Nintendo 64 had this texture filter, it looks very bad on a screen with more then 360 pixels in width, and pixelisation filter in-game helps a bit, but it doesn’t save the blurry mess of the locations upclose

Also on final boss i got a bug and stopped taking damage which made an already anticlimactic fight even more anticlimactic :|

Fantastic Four Volume 5 - Aliens, Ghosts, And Alternate Earths (2025)

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:19:58 +0300

Wanna see how I can light myself on fire?

This volume has my favorite story of the run in the 25th issue. And overall makes a nice prelude to the Our World Under Doom

MOTORSLICE Demo (2025)

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:12:37 +0300

Meet the, Potencial Game!! queue tf2 music

Cool setting(without proper level-design), anime tan with a chainsaw(and no character), diagetic camera drone(that makes me puke), parkour in megastructure(that is just not working properly)

So it is a cool concept, but realised poorly and needs some work done before going into a full version

Daredevil: Born Again — Season 2 E1-4

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:16:51 +0300

Not bad, definitely better than season 1

And the cold open of episode 4 is great

Yakuza 0: Director's Cut

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:42:00 +0300

In short 42 hours i finished Yakuza 0, and i must say that it was a very interesting gaming experience. And that is because it is two games in one, and it is not because of the two protagonists i played as

The selling-point of the series is the slice-of-life element integrated into a serious crime story. Simply speaking, in the middle of the yakuza families’ territory war in Tokyo you can: help a rockband with delinquent aesthetics behave like delinquents, find a complex password for the black market purely to find it out, help two lovers with their relationship by the means of crossword, help a guy go through the bridge full of people he pisses of with his jacket, pull out a bunch of toys from SEGA’s UFO Catcher™ for a little girl, and my favorite: write a bunch of letters for a radio-show and get a million yen prize, by this point i had about 200 mills :)

The main story is divided into two arcs. And for me, one of them is way more interesting than another one. I’ll not spoil anything, but i’ll say that first half of the game you’ll think that devs tried to put two games into one, but after chapter 6 you’ll finally start seeing the connections. And you’ll feel pain, i genuinely teared up a bit in the finale

As a whole this two lines can be described as a story about a boy becoming a man, and a man breaking down

Also you can throw money into people >:)

Project Hail Mary (2026)

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:41:53 +0300

This movie is full of small fascinating details for fans of space. And it is one of the few realistic sci-fi movies that are not going into full on cyberpunk. And i am sure this is the first movie in this century with first contact being a real problem to solve and not just shorthanded to move the story faster

And of cource, i miss seeing competent people saving the world

P.S. This is somehow third time this week i hear about Tau-Ceti system, it seems like a neat place

Batman – The Killing Joke (1988)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:56:02 +0300

It is a classic story. I don’t really like it. Moore written better works and modern recolored editions look like they were made by amatures who just opened Photoshop and not original artist

Marathon | Reveal Cinematic Short (2025)

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:30:03 +0300

I don’t like Gen Z memes, but i cannot describe this short as anything but PEAK CINEMA!!! ⌊( ・_・)⌋

This short has everything i love: heightened realism style Alberto Mielgo’s and pinkman.tv’s works are known for, odd paranoid rythmic soundtrack that seems like the tracks that were made for Utopia Tv Show OST, sci-fi based around space horror and the nature of human mind and consciousness, graphic design that was heavily inspired by Designer’s Republic, the calm moment before shit hits the fan, the namesake ship the story happens on fly to the star system from my favorite funny song by Vladimir Vysotsky(which is definitely a coincidence, but come on small coincidences like that make me believe in fate). This thing seems to be made specifically for me

I hadn’t understood shit, but fuck i loved every second of it. Some bugs printing android bodies that later get minds downloaded and go through mental checks of remembering their life, and yes, they slowly get their digital brains scrambled like my breakfast. Some guys barfing in their vacsuits and start hanging on air. The namesake ship stuck through the moon! You know all the good stuff i like

How i had missed the latest short film of my favorite animation team? And how the hell i missed the most stylish game made for big money? And why the hell the most stylish game money can make is an session-based extraction shooter with minimum requirements of exactly my computer?

Because in any multiplayer game minimum requirements slowly grow out of my computer(like Helldivers II for example, it doesn’t even run anymore) so i cannot even fucking try it without being disappointed by shitty optimization later… To be fair i don’t really like PvP shooters, so i don’t really miss anything that is not available in other places :)

MAD About DC (2026)

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:38:16 +0300

“What publication is even less respected than comic books? One that can make me feel better by comparison?” That’s when it hit me: MAD Magazine

An April Fools one-shot of a bunch of DC’s writers and artists making short comedy. It was pretty hit or miss. A whole lot of milenial humor of “Had we really did this stupid thing?”. A small bit of really smart pages that made me giggle. So yea the cover is not lying, comedy is subjective. And i don’t like most modern comedy because i have taste

I liked Weid’s, Coover’s, North’s and Taylor’s sketches

Split Fiction (2025)

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:26:50 +0300

If you are playing a cooperative game and both you and your mate think outloud “When it will finally end?”, then it was a bad coop game. And Split Fiction is not bad game, it was boring and disappointing

I genuinely don’t understand how this game gets any praises for the whole, most of the game was a slog to go through. Except for small meme moments and the final level

Bosses are too long. Half the dialog can be cutted out and the game would only get better. It seems that devs thought with any imagination and proper story only for fantasy settings and sci-fi here was just boring in terms of design(and i like bad sci-fi). Characters are non-persons with no real interesting edge to them. Main story is just stupid. “Stories” we dive into are not stories at all, they are just settings, list of tropes, sometimes a metaphor for character’s life experience in a vacuum. Screen had no need to be splited for most of the game. Camera should been “magneting” to the focal points like bosses or hooks like good games do. Control scheme is leaving me with questions like: had devs even played a videogame before?

But the worst part is: i liked moments of this game. It had fun and clever parts, but most of this 12-15 hours were so damn long and drawn-out to pain. Why Josef Fares needed to make such a long game? “Kill your darlings” is not written into all of writing and design books for nothing you know. Cut down most of the slogish parts of this game and it will be a great 6-7 hour experience. And clever use of the split-screen would be nice to see in the main game

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Volume 2

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:38:35 +0300

So the part of the story that got adapted is now over in the manga. I got 4 volumes left. And now story will go in absolutely different way, and nobody is able to spoil me on it >:)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run — Episode 1

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:18:48 +0300

JoJo 7 is out!!! And i love it! Seriously it was a perfect episode to start the best part of the series. If you have no idea what JoJo is, then watch this episode. You’ll not loose any context, this is a series reboot. But that’s a pity that other episodes will come out god knows then, to be fair we have a manga

Goddamnit Gyro Zeppeli is so cool i cannot give his coolness justice with text. He is the perfect combination of Clint Eastwood and avarage Shonen protagonist’s more interesting friend. And SPIN had been shown perfectly, i felt my limbs twist into a churro with the way this skill is shown

Johnny is the shitiest of Joestars at this point. But i understand that his ego is the point, this egoistical desire to get back to his normal self makes him the most interesting character in this part. He definetly doesn’t care about 50 pre-great depression dollars(add a couple zeros to the sum, because definetly Araki forgot™ that dollar’s value in 2000s was significantly lower then in 1890s due to inflation). The only interest of Johnny is healing his paralysis

And oh my god, the signature JoJo combat grade bullshit™ with horses is great. The honor to start the farce parade was given to reincarnated Dio-saurus :) and his way of evasion was great. And the way mr. Zeppeli used SPIN to get through the first stage of the race shows how exactly this new power system will use this two balls — with no real limits. I am scared to imagine how this will be even more limitless then Gyro get’s a Stand. And of cource Pokoloko’s happy-go-lucky tactic of getting from being late from this race to getting to the 3rd place is peak comedy. And of cource he was lucky enough to be the first stand user on this race

Absolute Batman #18

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:08:33 +0300

What a disappointing mess. Ivy was beaten by pointing a gun at her still human heart. And Batman in the end shot her anyway because fuck her i presume. What he expected by that? Snapping last straw between her humanity and godhood? And Bruce got not one but two pep-talks with Gordon and got nothing from them

I understand that Bruce is a deeply broken man at this point going through a couple months of constant mental and physical torture, but this twist from being Batman that is willing to go with more blood than usual to an edge-lord’s view of trigger happy Batman is just idiotic. Snyder has truly messed this moment up and this constant switching from scene to scene gets more jarring with each issue.

At least Ivy’s origin is properly tragic. And most importantly she cannot be redeemed into a hero on a whim due to her obsession with evolution

P.S. Oh no Martha is dead. Who expected it. She is definitely died off-screen and this Tallon definitely shot at her… Come on Scott, this is just bad manners at this point. This trope doesn’t work if you use it as a cliffhanger

Sandstorm (2015)

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:56:04 +0300

A small game full of confusion and disorientation. You had been stranded in a middle of the sandstorm and have only your wagon, five sticks to stick in the desert and a camel that escapes from me on every morning

And this smol game has more than enough content to play around with: letters, anomalies and small tools left without proper instructions(i hadn’t caught that the compass for example was really showing north, but i still have no idea what a wiggly wire does)

The best thing this game has is it’s camera. In combination with DOOM-like sprites the camera’s constant random circling will confuse you, bamboozle you, make you go in circles and thinking: “Had i walked by this dry broken stump or not?”

And i couldn’t finish it. Because i am very much sure that the camel’s position is truly random so this double-hunchbacked bastard on the fourth day is usually spawning too far away for me and my sticks and finding him was realistically impossible. And to add salt to my wound it had been making one single sound to let me know there this thing is, it was useless… So i just fuck around untill timer runs out and this run is over.

So yes this game is not for people with topographical cretinism

If you wanna try it for yourself, here’s the game, it’s free

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Volume 1

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:46:13 +0300

First volume of “Nausicaä” is great, i love it. The art is marvelous, heroine is interesting, aircrafts here got charisma, bugs are disgustingly charming, and the story raises the issues we still have in current day

The Stranger (2025)

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:39 +0300

Wow that was a nice adaptation of the book i read yesterday, i hope it doesn’t get me laughing in the cinema by a bad choice of credit song

Meanwhile the Cure

The Stranger

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:35 +0300

That’s all for today, Monsieur Antichrist

I’ll be honest, i had read this book only to prove to myself that i could read a full book. And this book was chosen only because it was short. I really hadn’t liked it that much

I understand that this is a classic, but it is visible that Albert had put in this book everything he could

But it is inherently funny that the monsieur Mersault got the french king’s treatment de facto for having a pokerface on his mother’s funeral

One Piece — Into the Grand Line

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:44 +0300

I cannot state enough how much i missed One Piece from my life.

Genuinely i missed this crew. Even if i dropped anime after Thriller Bark because it was unwatchable with it’s pacing.

But live action TV adaptation of One Piece cannot afford the sluggish pacing of anime and needed to go through first half of Alabasta Saga with only 8 hours, which is about 80 time less than anime needed for that. Surprisingly they even added some stuff that was reckoned in later chapters in current episodes…

# Loguetown

I was pleasantly surprised with how the show handled Loguetown

It was a single episode, and it had shown everything we needed to know and a bit more(I have no idea who Bartolomeo is, but he seems funny)

Also the first scene with Miss All Sunday was fucking amazing. And her role as a whole got widened in the show

# Reverse Mountain

Another arc collapsed into a single episode. It was fun. The Baroque Works calling cards replacing the flying posters were a good choice, now i want the similar thing for the Marines, maybe it could be an ID or badge

I had cried like a little bitch after Luffy sang the song to the whale. And who would expect Brooke to be casted so early to the show?

# Whisky Peak

It is very interesting that live action seems to be way more “trigger-happy” with killing off parts of the cast that have no more real use. Which adds nice suspense with who exactly gonna be dead and put every secondary character on the list

Special props to the stuntmen because all of the Zoro fights looked great

# Little Garden

MY BOY USSOP GOT A PERSONAL ARC! I repeat. MY BOY GOT A SPOTLIGHT

Also Sanji got his moment too, but most importantly

MY BOI HAD WON A FIGHT AGAINST TWO REAL OPPONENTS BY USING ONLY THE POWER OF WIT, SLINGSHOT AND ENDURANCE!!!

# Drum Island

Choppa had became another victim to the Cheburashka’s VFX team. Why they hadn’t made him a muppet or a kid in a deer makeup? Poor boy looks hideous, especially in his monster form(which was done practically)

But i’ll not hide that i had been crying like a bitch then Hiriluk died

Nier: Automata (2017) — flowers for m[A]chines

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:02:15 +0300

…become as gods! …become as gods! …become as gods! …become as gods! …become as gods!

I finally really finished Nier: Automata. And i finished it on the flowers for m[A]chines, and i had been under impression by it

A very confusing impression that needs a semi-philosophical ramble of text

WARNING!!! I had written this post while i was a bit drunk

WARNING №2!!! There will be spoilers to the best part of this game

# Part one

Last time we stoped on the entrance to the Shopping Center. Going through it i got to the Forest. In the Forest i got to meet and kill a bunch of robo-knights that were protecting their King. Then i got through the castle to the throne room i met the King… Well it was more of a Prince… Specifically it was a robo-baby in the robo-crib. No need to worry, my bigotry towards the machines is not big enough to hurt a baby. But my kindness didn’t help it then deserter YoRHa named A2 got to it. She killed the kid. Then i got the order to kill the deserter and we fought. I almost won and the bitch escaped with words “I am not an enemy, your command are your real enemy”. And i hadn’t seen her after that. This whole plotline is practically abandoned by the story. Maybe if got to complete “Traitors of YoRHa” i would get answers, but i wasn’t able to do that

I walked back from the Forest using the shortcut kindly provided by Pascal. From there i transported back to rebel base, there the leader given me the mission to protect a missile on the Sunken City shores. She said that there was nowhere to hurry and if i had other YoRHa business to do i could do it before dealing with the rocket. And i should’ve listened to her

# The moment of no return

That was one of this moments that just automatically made all non-completed sidequests into the failed state. And i can understand such practice for the last hour of the compain, but there were at least 4 full hours of game after that >:(

I hadn’t mentioned him before, but i had a companion during my adventures. His name was 9S and he irritated me :)

Sooo, in the Sunken City after i fought off some machines , me and my companion 9S got summoned to protect the aircraft carrier. And about 3 minutes later that carrier got eaten by a robo-whale weaponized with a machine factory, tonns of guns and radiowave jammers. I wasted about 20 minutes on destroying the jammers on this whale’s back. Then played a mini-game of “press the button B then the Whale opens it’s mouth”. And then Pascal got to help us the best he could. And 9S made up an ingenuious plan of me doing the same shit and him shooting the Checkov’s missile

Results: Whale is dead and stands in the sea, dozen of androids(including 9S) got spread on the map, and i was dealing with all of the consequences

# Fight club or how i killed Adam

To find 9S and other YoRHas i was issued a scanner. And i found all missing androids exept for 9S

And while i was searching for the boy on the shores of the Sunken City i found an underground fight club where androids beaten uping machines. I got to win one fight and was gifted a pack of hair dye. But after i saw that machines in there were having same rights as circus lions, i had no wish in continuing my participation in this

On the way back i finally found breadcrumb trails of 9S. They got me to the elevator in the caves next to the Alien Mothership. Going down this elevator i saw the small town built of white voxels built by non-other than Adam. The same Adam who got born this morning and same Adam i beaten up twice. He was surrounded by corpses of players(corpses here work in the same way lost packages work in Death Stranding). And since our last confrontation he got some nice clothes and capture 9S. We fought for the third time, i killed him after two attempts

The best part of this fight was that 9S got damaged enough to be laying in the hospital till the finale :)

The interesting part was in the Adam’s monologue. As it was characteristic to the machines’ fascination towards the humanity and human way of life, Adam wanted to feel all of the aspects of the human life. That was the reason behind creating this town, that was the reason of him disconecting from the network, and that is why he wanted to die

That was the moment i knew — the things go towards real serious themes i had started this game for

# Back to the factory

As in any good story, in Nier: Automata the story is built in the cycle. After killing Adam, i got a call from Pascal. He asked to assist him on the peace treaty talk with other settlement of the machines. They were living in the factory from the beginning of the game

Entering there me as Pascal got to see the religious life thriving in the place previously promoting progress and industrial triumph. They had all signs of centralized religion: they wore robes and funny hats, spoken about god and chanted songs, all that stuff. They were not dangerous. Until we got down to meet their leader

Then we got to the throne room, their leader had lost his head, and the surrounding choir started chanting “His grace became a god!”, “We will become as gods!” and most importantly “You will become as gods!”. They attacked us and blocked off the main entrance. So me and Pascal needed to take a long way around the factory

And belive me or not, this was the hardest moment in the game for me. And reason is simple: this cultists come out of nowhere and have suicide bombers

Remember that after death 2B leaves a corpse? Well this corpses contain all of your chips except for the HUD and OS. And i lost all of my upgrades to the one-shoting industrial press. Which ment i had lost: running speed, HP regeneration, melee and gun damage, item magnet, autouse of healthpacks on low HP and damn good fishing spot detector >:(

And without this chips i cannot react to this &#Ъ%!@$ machines and started constantly dieing

After wasting an hour of my time on suicide bombers and presses, me and Pascal finally ran of the most infuriating part. And i am thankful for this marathon of pain, because after third attempt i started seeing that not all robo-cultists wanted to kill us, they had no interest in dieing themselves. They were hiding in the corners, praying for their god, they feared for theirselfs and their friends

The peak of this pain was the last fight with cultists. In it among attacking machines there were scared machines that just got into the fetal pose and prayed for help. Both sides wore same robes, same funny hats, had same models, same voice and same faith

After that i had beaten the boss, which really hadn’t mattered

And then everything was over, me and Pascal got to see the soulcrashing image. In the smeltery cultists started throwing themselfs into the pit of melted metal with maniacal laughter and words like “I feel good!”. Repeating “God… God… God… God…God… God… God…”, “All we need is to die”, “I am scared”, “We will be free of our tourment” and to give me a proper gut punch they said “Bye-Bye”… The whole factory was full of corpses of dead machines in robes…

And it seems Pascal got traumatized enough to get a fuge and forget what was happening in there, the only thing he said is that the factory was huge and he wanted to revisit it

I was sitting in the shower for about an hour thinking of this scene…

# flowers for m[A]chines

And now finally, finalle

I will not spoil it, but i’ll say a thing: i had tricked you again

I hadn’t really finished with Nier: Automata. Because flowers for m[A]chines even if it has real credit sequence and zeroes out the safe, is still a fake ending

It was an overly soppy and underdeveloped. Right after catharsis of the Abandoned Factory last two hours of the game felt meaningless. It hadn’t added a thing to the metaphorical dialog between me and Yoko Taro. This was nothing. Story just ended with absolutely tasteless, nothing-burger sequence of events unusually boring for this game. After credits i felt far less emotions than after eating Mackerel thanks to my stupidity

And i was ready for this ending. Because Nier: Automata is a game with whole english alphabet and one greek letter worth of endings. And it was obvious that the ending with main condition of “just finish the game for the first time” will have nothing of value

And even without knowledge of the alphabet i would anyway expect this result due to dozens of locked out locations, the fact that some sidequests are not completable due to this locks or even just absence of needed characters. Or that names of some bosses are written in sci-fi hieroglyphics. Or even the hacking minigame that in this story featured exactly once in the easily dodgable attack of one of the bosses. And most importantly: plotlines with no resolution

So yea, i hadn’t completed Nier: Automata

One Piece — Season 1

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:13:09 +0300

Wealth. Fame. Power. I found everything this world has to offer. Free yourselves! Take to the seas! My treasure is yours to find.

I rewatched first season and i must say that it is still the best currently running adaptation of the manga that i hadn’t read yet :)

Currently waiting for season 2

Absolute Superman #15-17 — "The never-ending begins" (2025-2026)

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:56:48 +0300

Proper status quo Absoulute Superman was pretty good. This small arc continues breadcrumb trail from the Absolute Evil. Hawkman sucks in the best way possible. Clarks daily life is fascinating and shows that realistic and gritty Superman still can and should be a kind person. Parasite given me some long needed dose of body-horror. And Absolute Lex Luthor is a kindest and chillest family guy ever. Untill Brainiac comes to his home

And this part was truly painful to watch. Especially the reveal page on which Lex just sits alone in the aftermath of the massacre that Brainiac done for some idiotic reason. The only thing the open brain accomplished by that was gaining the enemy potentially far worse than any kryptonian

Ultimate Universe (2023)

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:34:47 +0300

Why they made this part of Ultimate Invasion into a separate one-shot? I have no idea

But this one was definetly a better story than Invasion. It shows us how Iron Lad and Doctor Doom get their revolutionary crew together. And now Maker’s cabal reacted on his sudden disappearance. Spoiler they gone with the act of domestic terrorism

Most of this issue is about freeing Thor from his cell, well less about phisical cell and more about motivating him to escape and fight for his rightfull right for Asgard’s throne. Thor could escape at any moment and just needed a good push. Also Lady Sif is with this team now, not much else to say about her really. She’s behaving like a tsundere i suppose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also Lad and Doom dug out Capitan America

And for a finale, as i previously said, the shadow government had shot New-York from Stark Sr.’s satellite pointing at Stark Jr. Getting three things done at once: discredited Tony and Doom, destroying their base of operation and killing a bunch of civilians as a treat. The last scene with TV broadcast teases Black Panther, minimaly shows protagonist of the X-Men book and shows the inciding incident for Spider-Man, bacause in this attack Harry Osborn’s parents die, and also Aunt May had also died in there :|

Also as a bonus they given us a couple of pages from Ultimate X-Men, and judging by them it seems we’ll get a light body-horror, inspired by works of Junji Ito. Which is honestly the best way to make X-Men in my opinion

Ultimate Invasion (2023)

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:01:57 +0300

And so, what exactly does one do with the full knowledge of their enemies and the unlimited capacity to engage them before they even have the faintest idea that you exist?

It’s simple really. Whatever one wants.

This is a prelude for the second Ultimate Marvel Universe. And it was a very average comic. And it is the same situation as with DC’s Absolute Universe.

But the world this book introduced looks promising

And i hadn’t mentioned Absolute for no reason, the main concept of both of this lines is quite similar. Ultimate started a year before though, and how exactly this funny coincidence happened is a very good question i have no interest in answering

So what’s going on in here? The Maker(evil Reed Richards from previous Ultimate Verse) had escaped his imprisonment on Earth 616 and wanted to play God on a biggest scale he had done it yet. He got Earth 6160 and modified it in his own image. Specifically he removed all the heroes and villains from the picture(some got killed some were removed in more peaceful way), divided the planet to 7 territories and given control of them to the most malleable of leftover supes, and for shits and giggles tortured Reed Richards of this world into becoming Dr. Doom using a time bubble

And from other things worthy of my attention:

Tony Stark now has an alive dad who is the Iron Man of this world or at least Schrödinger’s dad :) Tony meanwhile is only an Iron Lad
Only non-evil Russians of Marvel Universe(Colossus and Magik) are now part of Maker’s cabal
Peter Parker was saved from becoming Spider-Man Of course he’ll be given a choice to become one, then he will have wife, kids, student debt and alive Uncle Ben :|
On the world map, that contained the borders of the 7 countries, Vakanda was just standing as a big black dot in a middle of Africa marked as “Undiscovered Territory”

Should you read this book? Honestly, this is a bit more complex prelude than with Absolute. DC did the right thing and you can start at any series without much issue. But Ultimate’s main guy is Jonathan Hickman, a guy known for his very lore heavy run on X-Men, in which you needed to read two series at the same time to get what’s going on in other X-Men adjacent books. He made X-Men into a fucking Game of Thrones with bureaucratic procedures for mutant rebirth

And according to Reddit, this same format is working in here too. It is not a bunch of self contained books that you can just pick up from no.1. It is an anthology series with episodes going simultaneously in different parts of the world. And you’ll need to at least read this book and another oneshot after it to get what is going on in other books.

Simply put: it is kinda like the stucture of MCU, but with comics. And no MCU doesn’t have the comic structure for it’s storytelling, it is too serialized

I currently plan to read Ultimates, Spider-Man and X-Men. And thank god most of this runs are already over and i can just binge them arc by arc

Nier: Automata (2017) — aji wo [K]utta

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:03:56 +0300

Oh no… I forgot to save…

I had completed Nier: Automata for the third time. This time though i have no excuses for my stupidity, i was warned about not eating the fish, but i just eaten it

As a result of this action, 2B had all her bodily fluids congealed, muscles paralyzed and her last thought before sweet embrace of death was “It was good, though, exquisite even. No wonder humans used to eat them…”. And that’s how i got another set of credits and aji wo [K]utta ending

And before this terrible act of idiocy i had:

Founded stolen chips with secret data for a sketchy behaving guy. He promised to introduce me to his family
Got to participate in challenges from robo-shamans with rules for every occasion
Helped Jackass(that’s her name) in her scientific pursuits, that mostly consisted in killing a bunch of machines. She also was the one who had given me the Mackerel to check one of her other hypothesis
Found the Alien Mothership. There i also met Adam and Eve. Both were guys and both had killed all of the aliens on board of this ship, next up on their plan were humans on the Moonbase
Raced against the blue flying machine who had been overtaking me by literal meter each and every time >:(
Met a philosopher machine named Jean-Paul. Who to my disappointment was ~~speaking in nonsense~~ an existentialist
And finally started a trip to the forest to meet the forest king. In the Shopping Mall on the way there i met a bizarre ball with bizarre face inside one of machine’s heads, that got away before i got a chance to understand what had just happened
And that was the moment i had eaten Mackerel out of boredom

To my happiness, i had only lost the progress just before meeting the bizarre ball with bizarre face

Absolute Wonder Woman #17 (2026)

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:45:58 +0300

Tropelet Annataz ot ytefas.

As i predicted Absolute Zathana is not evil. She was mindcontrolled by a starfish living in her throat. On literally third page she had coughed it out and ran away

Also this issue had a fight between two giant women :)

And as you could’ve concluded the Suicide Squad that was built up in past issue turned out to be a bunch of incompetent villains. Which was expected honestly. Half of the squad either were gone in first 8 pages or got beaten up by their allies. Cheetah for example was useless and got unceremoniously killed off to introduce Zee’s <evil/chaotic/uncontrollable> ghost dad

The main event of this issue was a fight with Giganta for which, as i already said, Diana had used magic to grow a couple dozen times and give evil giantess an uppercut and subdue her by strangling. It was sick!

The main question for me is mostly how Cale still gets all that government money if she cannot control competent part of her crew and how incompetent does it’s job so badly that i feel shame they should feel? Absolute Universe had set evil triumphing as law of nature, but Diana got problems of same stakes as average season finale of My Little Pony

Which is not really bad, but looking at what Bruce and Clark are currently going through you’ll definitely see how much demiurge of this world really plays favorites with the Last Amazon

Fallout - Season 2 (2026)

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:31:34 +0300

Showrunners finally remembered that fans love New Vegas

I hadn’t played New Vegas. I hadn’t really liked most of this season

Robert House was interesting, tho.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:17:36 +0300

I should’ve stayed on a fucking boat!!!

I watched this movie in the cinema and i must say: cinema is truly a magical place. The sheer scale of the screen had given me cinematic experience truly had fucked me and my mate, whom i by my idiocy invited to watch this film for fun then it was put on the listing of our local cinema

Remember my words on Evangelion? So yea this is another piece of art after which i had been sitting in my shower for an hour while thinking: “Why we still here? Just to suffer? WTF is wrong with humanity? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

And yes, i definitely had enjoyed watching this film and definitely will not stay the same man ever again. Also my fear of getting drafted to the army had enlarged in logarithmic progression :)

Also thanks to my local theatre and Project “Нефть” for re-screening this masterpiece. I wouldn’t had experienced it as much if i watched it at home

Nier: Automata (2017)

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Now it is definetly the finale :)

As i promised, i’ll write on all the endings i’ll get. And this time i fully consciously removed 2B’s OS Chip and got fa[T]al error

And no i hadn’t done it for shits and giggles, it was a very logical solution to a problem i got myself in

When i had tried to find a shortcut to the Pascal’s village, i had found a quick way to get back into the ruins, but i hadn’t understood that it was a one-way road and to get back to this place i needed to make another hook through the Amusement Park

And my usual hubris and single-mindedness got me in trouble then i tried to parkour back to the village through this one way shortcut in the same manner a person might try to put the toothpaste back into the tube.

As a result i had fallen down into the cavern. It seemed to be a way later location than my character should’ve been prepared for. Machines there were of 30th-40th levels, my usual at this point were maximum 15th. But they hadn’t been much trouble. The trouble was that i got stuck in this cave and hadn’t found a way back to the surface.

So i got to use the old reliable samurai’s solution of killing myself. I activated 2B’s Self Destruct mode. But i hadn’t considered that my automatic health injector wouldn’t deactivate for this. And so i got 2B with concussion and a disintegrated dress. I open the chip menu to remove the auto-heal and remembered that i can remove any component from 2B’s RAM, including her OS.

So i removed the OS and got to the second round of 10x credits :)

So here is my opinion on the game as a whole at this moment: i love it. It has everything i love in a good game: confusing lore, unique gameplay mechanics that give both lols(as i given in this story) and unusual gaming experience, secondary quests that are small personal stories or straight up comedy sketches(a machine tries to scam money from me, but i’ll not be a stupid girl it thinks i am) and philosophy that definitely hides behind the corner

Absolute Batman #17

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:47:56 +0300

In this episode of “Life and torture of Bruce Wayne” we finally have long awaited debut of Poison Ivy. And damn she is fabulous, especially in her true form

This issue has three plots run simultaneously. First is Bruce’s daily life going to hell. Second is Ivy’s origin full of delightful deranged philosophy. And third happens in current time with Ivy taking over the center of Gotham and corrupting it with her idea of “the Seventh Kingdom of Life”

I fell in love with this Ivy because she definitely, without any small print of goodness saying that she is right: delusional in her conquest. Absolute Poison Ivy is no longer an eco-terrorist with good point and horrible execution, she is no longer anything resembling a human being. She became something more in her own eyes and she wants to let this more to sprout and grow throughout humanity. She is a fascinating monster with minimum requirement in origin to still be sympathetic and tragic in her own right

So it would be very fun to see what circle of hell Ivy will make Batman go through and what irreversible damage will be done on poor poor Bruce this time

Absolute Wonder Woman Annual

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:37:01 +0300

Honestly out of the annual issue i expected more. Of course it was good to see how much compassion Diana is holding and how she was impacted by her temporary transformation into Medusa. And it was good to see her try to fix real Medusa’s curse after feeling how torturous this form was. But it could’ve been done better

Especially in a way they incorporated Athena. It is truly a great fumble to not give Athena a real true bad action and pretend that she hadn’t cursed Medusa and it was just misinterpretation and lies. She is a greek goddess for Pete’s sake, gods cursing people on whim is kinda the main thing of greek myphos

But the moment then Diana looks Medusa in her eyes and Medusa cries from finally seeing somebody’s living face after thousands of years of her torturous existence. I almost had cried by myself.

Batman – Green Arrow – The Question – Arcadia #2 (2026)

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:29:03 +0300

Automation could do the work faster.
We do the work cheaper.

I read this series for The Question and Green Arrow, and i have and idea why Batman is here, but i cannot explain it without swearing :)

This comicbook series is about a liberterian-billionare building the floating city with the power of the slave labor. This is the perfect setup for both Question, who is an ex-libertarian and current street philosopher, and perfect for Green Arrow, his whole character is about fighting capitalism and social inequality. And there is Batman, who seems to be here for company

And i liked this comic, exept for one thing… excluding Batman… this book is too preachy with it’s ideas. I am not going here with grey morals, i very much agree with most of them. I am speaking about lines like “He’s fitting us into his narrative.” and “We are just people fighing back. Because we care.” If this two lines were said by Arrow or Question(esspecially Question) i wouldn’t had had any questions. They both are psycotic in different but fun ways. But it was said by a random guerrilla woman. Why in a middle of a shootout she would say something this simple in this overly complicated way? And that is half of the dialogue here. It just ozzes the energy of “i live in LA and i give a f%@&, look at how much f%@&s i give!” and this lines just need a good editor to either cut em or replace. That is a basic mistake that i did, and i still regretting myself for allowing it. Seriously read my Þe Orb and proove to me that last paragraph doesn’t ruin this short story

And the way the book delt with The Question is great, the writer does well in balancing between Ditko’s psycotic noir detective and O’Niel’s philosophising self-reflecting Question(even if it is still far from perfect). Also this spin-off version of the character is better than modern mainline version(i hadn’t read 52 yet btw)

City of Gods (2026)

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a nice city.

This small fan made comic about Marvel Universe. It’ main question stands as “Why heroes had chosen New York”. And the answers we get are all different from different people including the heroes themselves, but most of them boil down to “it’s New York, of cource they live in here”

I loved how this comic handled the cameo/tribute to Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, esspecially how Ditko gone to the long tirade about how heroes just wanna be above the normal folk and how they all just wanna brag about it with the help of journalists and bla, bla, bla. And then Kirby just says “It’s a nice city.”. And knowing and loving both of this guy’s works, it tracks

And art in this comic is marvelous as well, it switches between Smallwood style retro-modern art by Ribeiro and in-world advert posters by Pessoa. And one posters i would love to frame on my wall but the release is pretty overly compressed so printing it on A3 sheet of shiny paper wouldn’t do it justice

Also i recommend to watch this video by the writer of this comic exactly making sence of putting the books setting in the 60s

Nier: Automata (2017) — broken [W]ings

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Well, i presume the game is over :)

As you could’ve guessed i technically had completed Automata on the most shameful of endings — broken [W]ings

Simply speaking got killed during the tutorial. And considering that i’ve seen the ending titled(even if they’ve been sped up), so let’s count it as a completed walkthrough. And from the second attempt i had finally properly passed through the tutorial and got to propely save

And now i played the game through the Desert area and got to fill up 2B’s RAM with most essential software: fishing detector, sound visualizer and additional walking speed

Studio (2026)

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a fun show exept for episode 9 which was going with Rogen’s ol’ reliable drug joke for the whole episode

Shooting the whole show in a sequence of long takes is a very odd choice, but it works

“The Missing Reel” was a very stupid but fun parody of neo-noir detectives

Wonder Woman – Black & Gold Special #1 (2026)

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a nice and simple anthology comic about Wonder Woman. All of the stories had a very different tone, so it gone from pseudo-philosophy on human nature of dillusion to a funny kid story about somebody stealing peaches

I had really liked only the last story in here

Absolute Wonder Woman #16 (2026)

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ABSOLUTE ZATANNA IS HERE!!! For whole 3 pages

AND NOW SHE IS A BAD GIRL!!! In a Suicide Squad and her own book was announced. So most likely she is not really evil

AND SHE’S HOT! Which is true

And that is why you should never trust comic book marketing.

Well it was actually expected. It is a first issue of a new arc. So it’s point was to introduse the scenery in which the fight will happen. Also it introduses Aphrodite, who is depicted wearing a classic halloween sheet ghost costume that was soaked during Wet T-Shirt contest. Which is oddly fitting for a goddess of beauty

Also Steve Travor is finally a character. He gives a great speech on a senate hearing about him resigning from the army because US army cannot handle supernatural events that been happening during the events of the book.

Meanwhile Veronica Cale plans to commit act of domestic terrorism using Suicide Squad. Which in this version is consisting of Wondie’s classic enemies and Zatanna. And Zee got and upper hand.

To be continued… I’ll be waiting for next issue, book still works well

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 7 (2020)

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:01 +0000

To get yall to the same page: Witch Hat Atelier is the best fantasy manga in my opinion.

This series had moved my opinion on potencially becoming a teacher from “God no, i hate kids. Flip off” to “Maybe yes, maybe no. The Fate is a funny mistress”.

And this volume gets into history and mystery of my favorite characters: Qifrey and Olruggio. I love seeing this guys doing everything they can to be the best mentors they can be. Qifrey’s internal conflict during this one is finally getting development and his backstory stops being as much of a mystery it was before.

And in later blurbs on this manga i’ll go in full spoiler mode, so either read it with me or don’t look. Manga reads quite fast and with my reading speeds you can get to me in no time. Good luck :)

Wonder Man (2026)

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I as most people hated how they delt with Mandarin in Iron Man 3, but without this shitshow that was IM3 we wouldn’t get this Wonder Man.

And Wonder Man is a really good show. It is not a superhero show, it is a show setted in the superhero world, and it works with superhero world way better than all other MCU projects combined.

Also it got a whole episode about Doorman, and that is something that nobody could’ve expected

Absolute Batman #16 (2025)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:18:50 -0700

Never stand behind a centaur!

As you could’ve guessed i don’t realy like crossovers with Batman, i think that Bats is the parasite on any of this crossovers, he always becomes the center of attention, even if he dies he still lives. THAT HAPPENED TWICE!!

But i like Absolute Batman quite much, because unlike his mainline counterpart, Batbuilder has something odd that people call — conciquences.

And this issue is about him dealing with conciquences of getting his closest friends into his vigilante buisness, about him dealing with trauma.

And most importantly, getting kicked by a centaur :)

Absolute Wonder Woman #15 (2025)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A long awaited 2 issue crossover arc of Batbrick and Wonder Woman.

And it’s first part feels quite inconciquential. It is nothing but a setup for an interesting part, the part that DC by their tradition given out to Batman…

>:(

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2014)

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will.

After finishing all of Bayonetta and MGS1 i got to this one. And it is the best of both worlds: absurd style of Bayo and a very fun but depressing in retrospective story of Metal Gear

Wicked: For Good (2025)

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Meh. Nothing really interesting had happened during this 2 hours

Running Man (2025)

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Firstly: Schwarz-bucks are funny

Second: Michal Sera rocks it with his borderline psycocotic guerrilla role

Thirdly: Making one reference to the cult-classic known in small circles 1967 tv show The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan is a maybe a quincidence, making whole two references to the cult-classic known in small circles 1967 tv show The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan shows that a brit had made this movie

UNBEATABLE (2025)

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a fun game with interesting story and style, but damn it needs more time in the oven. Seriously, better wait for half more year till it gets fixed

Lil Gator Game (2021)

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was the cutest game i’ve played. There is a whole bunch of cute animals you help to deal with some minor problems. And then you get everybody to make a cool fort out of cardboard. And also it is about how adulthood looks from kids perspective, and how hard it is to get adults into having fun

It is short, it is sweet, it is fun. Play it!

Superman (2025)

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rewatched this movie and it is still great. Loved mr. Terrific and the Justice Gang. Loved how this place feels like and already living world there 500m kaiju is just an inconvenience, a major inconvenience but still nothing out of the ordinary for Metropolians :)

Akira (1988)

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I understood nothing, it was a very interesting movie

Life of Brian (1979)

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Something is happening Redge!!

I am not enough of an individual to quote about everyone being an individual :(