The Man who Never was

Batman: Justice Buster, Vol. 1 by Eiichi Shimizu My rating: 4 of 5 stars This title has been something I've been putting off for a while now; mostly because I wasn't sure what to expect, in a Manga version of Batman. Once I started reading though, it was pleasantly better than I'd expected. After the first 3 chapters, I began to even wonder why it took so long to get this crossover of the Batman mythos with the black and white manga aesthetic. Which fits the mysterious gothic dark and gritty atmosphere of Gotham like a Bat glove. The characters and their body language, especially their facial expressions would remind you of the mystery investigative manga stories, like 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri , which also I'm thinking to resuming after this. It introduces the readers to the world of Gotham & Batman, presupposing that you have a generic familiarity with the mythos. It follows the canon at many places, but at tim

ഉദകപ്പോള | Udakappola by P. Padmarajan My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are a few multi-talented personalities in the long, storied history of Indian arts and literature. One who has made their mark on several fields to varying acclaim, is the celebrated and adored versatile Indian auteur Satyajit Ray. A prodigious artist, who has made his mark not only in films, but writing and other fields, venturing into the then niche genres such as sci-fi with an Indian sensibility, as early as the 1960s. An artist who worked along the same path as Ray, in the southern regional sphere, is the often underrated, but now adored Malayalam filmmaker P. Padmarajan; or പപ്പേട്ടൻ as those in the state adoringly called him. Someone who’s thoughts, visions and cinematic sensibilities, often traveled ahead of his times. Which might be a major reason why, during his own lifetime, he gained little recognition for his work. The people he worked with, as well as like minded coll