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A mysterious assassin hunts down previous colleagues of Mr. Lewis. An excellent mystery.

This was the first volume of Last Mechanika I collected. I'm a sucker for Dia de los Muertos aesthetics, but regardless, how could you pass up a cover like this?! Set before the events of the main run of comics, Lady M visits a small Mexican village being terrorized by a group of bandits and decides to lend them her services, in part in search of her own redemption.

This may be my favorite volume yet. More hints of Mechanika's past, but interrupted by Mr. Lewis's unexpected nuptials. It'll be interesting to see how their relationship moves forward after her interference.

 Fun, quirky fantasy stories with some deep and unique world building.

 A contemplative and philosophical graphic novel. The story involves a daughter, father, and grandfather. It seems to make some presumption of the reader's awareness of Ray Kurzweil, a futurist. Amy is helping Ray compile records of her grandfather's writing to aid Ray in creating a chatbot of his father. You get to know all three pretty well, but I'm not entirely sure to what end. The story jumps around a bit and could be better focused. There is talk about the role of technology and AI, living beyond our bodies, lots of interviews between father and daughter with no clear purpose, talk about writing this book without ever defining what the book is meant to be. It is interesting and readable and well drawn, I just don't know what story it was trying to tell 

 Damn, Seanan, the ending on this one was just brutal! I think I'm due for a re-read of this series; I forgot that Nadya was in an earlier entry. Brilliant, vivid world building, as always. Follows the recent trend of dropping major hints about the doors, but still not giving any details. What is your game here, Seanan?! 

King famously disliked the film adaptation of The Shining. Having seen the movie several times, I guess I can see his dissatisfaction, but I think Kubrick did a good job. The book is different enough that I got well caught up in the suspense. Usually, King really flushes out the community that the book is taking place in, but this has such a narrow scope that the few characters and the hotel itself get much more attention. Very good.