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Mickey 17 (2025)

17/06/2026 Movie | During a human expedition to colonize space, Mickey 17, a so-called "expendable" employee, is sent to explore an ice planet.

People who know about the stories I write might notice that I really like the concept of characters who die but come back to life, I like the concept and the different interpretations stories about this might bring to the table, so when I saw the trailer for Mickey 17 with some of my favorite names attached to it (Bong Joon-ho and Robert Pattison doing a funny voice) I was really excited for it, and I did like it! But I feel like I was expecting more.

Like, I feel like the whole "oooh Mickey it's an expendable" thing gets put aside as soon as Mickey 18 comes into the picture, which is not that bad and I don't hate it but the premise of the movie changes to something more, generic, dare I say? I don't know, it's like "Here's a quick montage of Mickey being used and killed again and again, got it? Okay, now here's a movie about how humans are the real monsters™" or something like that, I feel like the flip of focus was something that worked on The Host, for example, because The Host wasn't exactly about the monster, it was about Hyun-seo's rescue, while Mickey 17 it's like "Do you want to see the story about this guy and his struggles as an expendable guy?" only to flip it on the second act, even the battle between Mickey 17 and Mickey 18 didn't last that long and got resolved because of his girlfriend, I was legit expecting for both of them to fight on that one challenge Toni Colette's character gave them, but they didn't really do anything with it.

Robert Pattinson was really fun to watch and Mickey is the best part of the movie. I wish I could say the same about the villiains but man, I hate Mark Ruffalo and as soon as I noticed he was just going to do a Donald Trump imitation the whole movie I couldn't help but hate his character even more, and not in the way the movie wanted me to hate him. I think I only liked his character in his last moments when he said to Mickey 18 that his fear made him human, but half a minute isn't enough to save his whole role, he fucking sucks I hate the guy, what's even worse is that Toni Colette's character and talent got wasted on just being his over-the-top classist wife, the last few scenes with her on her own I was like YES!! YES THERE YOU GO!! She was as cool as ever and I kinda wish they just made her the only antagonist in the movie. Speaking of, their evilness felt really cartoony, but I can kinda excuse it because the overall tone of the movie was kinda silly. I just feel like the movie wanted us to take them more seriously than they deserved. I think the tone was a problem overall.

Now, I did like it when they touched on the expendables themes, like the thing with the duplicates was something really interesting to learn about, and realizing that Mickey was still afraid of death despite everything was a nice touch, I wanted more of that! Nasha being so human to him was a really needed warm moment, alongside the moments in which the people treated him like a human, that's also why I think Colette's character treating him as sub-human was really good in her last scene, and we could've had so many more moments like that if they focused a bit more on Mickey's strange nature. I would describe the things that I liked as cute, especially at the end credits where instead of "Mickey 17/18" they changed it to just Mickey Barnes, I'm just a baby I'm sensitive like that. A fun movie overall, I didn't hate it, but it wasn't really my favorite Bong Joon-ho movie.

Invincible Season 1

24/05/2026 TV Series | When 17-year-old Mark Grayson inherits superpowers, he becomes the superhero Invincible.

Started watching Invincible (el Imbecil como le decimos de cariño de este lado del charco) and it's been really fun, totally down to watching the rest of the seasons. I think it has some pacing issues and while I do understand they are setting up stuff for future seasons I also think it can get annoying, the whole Amber sub-plot which I know goes NOWHERE is so annoying, I understand the whole "I have to learn how to balance my regular and super life" plot but it was done in such an annoying way, doesn't help that Amber is so unlikeable too.

But still, it was really fun to watch; I'm really interested in the whole Viltrum lore. Omniman is such an interesting character too, and his dynamic with his family or how he grew to love them despite trying to convince himself that he's not capable of such thing is really interesting. Their fight in the last episode was equally amazing, brutal and sad to watch, I also love how they make him feel really intimidating from the first episode while giving no clear explanation, it really helps with the tension on the rest of the series knowing that he could snap and do it all over again if he feels like it, and when he does it really feels like a payoff (unlike a certain other villain...ahem). I might read the comic later when I get up to date with the show, for now I've been really enjoying it!

Possession

25/04/2026 Movie | A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

I had seen clips of this movie before (especially from the subway scene) and holy shit I still wasn't ready for what this was. Disturbing, uncomfortable and amazing on so many levels, I feel like I need to watch it a few more times to actually process everything. These performances are on a whole other level, man. Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill were fucking insane, especially Isabelle. Oh my God, the woman that you are.

The fact that they are making a remake of this feels like ragebait.

Trust me: The False Prophet

19/04/2026 Documentary Series | A cult expert and filmmaker infiltrate a polygamist sect to expose a self-proclaimed prophet and bring him to justice.

Crazy and sometimes frustrating to watch. It's insane how a pathetic man can get away with so much power. I also think that the fact that they were making a documentary even before the guy started growing his cult in the community was like catching lightning in a bottle, I can't imagine how it must've feel to agree on everything with such a sick fuck just to keep gaining not his trust but the trust of his victims. Seeing these women get manipulated is so disturbing and sad, the way Naomi says that she sees herself on the footage from the documentary in third person is heartbreaking.

Wicked: For Good

16/04/2026 Movie | Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical..

I feel like my hype for this movie died slowly, and I don't mean it as a bad thing to be honest! I had no high expectations for the sequel, just as I didn't expect to hate it either, and I didn't. There was a bit of discourse about how bad the movie was as soon as it came out and I was surprised to see that it was just fine,I feel like a lot of the hate was just from people who either don't like musicals, don't like Wicked at all, or don't like Cynthia or Ariana (sometimes both lol) and like, it's fine to not like any of these, but some of the criticism had nothing to do with the movie itself and it shows lol .

BUT, still, the first movie was waaay better. I feel like it was going to be tricky to adapt the second act of Wicked no matter what because the source material is kinda ehh, but at the same time I feel like they didn't do much with it either. The Defying Gravity ending in the first movie was so good, and the things they added were pretty cool and added to the characters, like that part where Elphaba sees her younger self while falling from the building, it was so cute and it breaks my heart for her too because for a long while it was like she's all that she has. Meanwhile in For Good things felt a bit lacking, even when they are trying to add things like the two new songs that, ironically enough, add almost nothing. A great example of this is the No Good Deed scene, which to me is on a similar level to the hype from Defying Gravity in the first act and it's one of the highlights of the whole musical. The performances in the musical are so fucking good, Idina Menzel's and Danna Paola's especially are some of my favorites because holy shit, they give their all on them! And while I understand that for a live musical you HAVE TO give your all for the whole audience, I still feel like Cynthia, despite having amazing vocals, underperformed so much for a pivotal scene, especially compared to her in Defying Gravity. I like Cynthia's No Good Deed but just because No Good Deed is amazing and there's no way that she was going to fail on it, not because I think she did anything crazy or something, and man I can't believe they cut the transition from Glinda's to Elphaba's "FIYEROOOOOOOO" like DAMN!! that's such a fun part from the musical. Another scene that felt underwelming was the ending. Glinda watching Elphaba die in front of her always makes me emotional in the musical, but in the movie it's kinda whatever, and I do like Ariana and Cynthia's chemistry as these characters! It just didn't hit for me.

Another thing that I didn't like is how fake everything feels, like I'm not saying the first movie felt real or anything, but at least it felt like a tangible set, I don't know why in For Good I just felt like I was looking at greenscreen the whole time, so distracting and even kinda boring despite being such a colorful world. Glinda and Fiyero's wedding was a perfect ocassion to go bonkers with the set and everything and even No One Mourns the Wicked on the first movie feels like a bigger celebration (which it kinda is, but it feels insane for Glinda's character to have a wedding that feels so small lol)

I know I might sound like a hater but I really love the first one and I think the second one was just fine and kinda cute. I liked the Dorothy scenes, it's really fun to see her story happen on the background of this whole drama lol, something that I've also liked a lot since the first movie is how Ariana is able to show that she's heartbroken by Elphaba's death despite having to act like she's happy and "justice was served" for everybody else, and I'm glad we got a musical movie that wasn't ashamed of being a musical for once, I hope they see the success of Wicked (especially the first part) and give us more.

It: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)

20/12/2025 TV series | In 1962, a couple with their son move to Derry, Maine just as a young boy disappears. With their arrival, very bad things begin to happen in the town.

I finished Welcome to Derry today, I was a big fan of It: Chapter One and I really like Mamá, but It: Chapter Two was so mid I wasn't sure about watching Welcome to Derry, it wasn't until I saw a clip of Bill Skarsgård ACTUALLY coming back as Pennywise that made me go like AIGHT!! YOU GOT ME!! Because I'm a huge fangirl for his Pennywise (yes, it was my fangirling what made me watch this series DON'T LOOK AT ME!! DON'T!!)

And I liked it! There's a lot of things that I'm not a big fan of: The CGI was kinda silly sometimes, I give it a pass because is a TV series and it didn't ruin the show for me most of the time, but man sometimes it was just TOO silly, like the series can get so gory and violent, but then you get to episode 3 for example, and the graveyard chasing scene feels like you're watching a kids show, the kids getting away in their bikes looked so bad too, I get that CGI is hard but this was some green-screen fuckery that felt cheap. Some other ones I'll give it a pass because the transformations and the hallucinations Pennywise make them see are pretty creative and gruesome, but sometimes I just can't help and wonder why didn't they used practical effects for more stuff, I think is exactly that what makes Pennywise look so good in the series; he looks tangible, he's intimidating, uncanny and scary, ESPECIALLY if you put yourself in the shoes of a little kid, when I see them running away from a CGI creature all I can think it's just how silly it looks. The other thing I didn't like was the whole military sub-plot, apparently this is from the book which I haven't read so it's fine, is more likely a me thing, but man I just didn't care about it most of the time, Hallorann was the only one who made it interesting, I couldn't care less for the rest. There's also this big feeling of AMERICA BAD!! that at this point I'm really tired of in fiction, the "I WANT YOU!!" hallucination made me roll my eyes. I think they did a great job handling the racism themes but the military evil just felt too cartoony at times. I think these two issues come from a feeling that the series doesn't really know what tone they want to go for; sometimes is too childhish, sometimes is too violent, and it stays on a weird limbo between the two.

But something that I do like about Muschietti's It is the way it handles the themes of connection through the horrors of childhood, supernatural or not, in fact, I think between the It series and Mamá Andy Muschietti has made a great job at blending the two of them. He also knows how to make emotional moments and man, as someone who has a hard time seeing kids suffering and dying in media (it took a long while for me to not skip Georgie's death scene in the first movie because it just breaks my heart T_T) you KNOW I was crying my eyes out during the last two episodes because of Richie. The series shows you is not afraid of killing characters on the first chapter and I think it helps to build tension for a bit (until you pick up which characters are not going to die, either for future-plot armor of for plot-armor itself). And Pennywise, ooooh Pennywise *dreamy sigh* twirling my hair... kicking my feet... Exploring more about Pennywise was cool, I wasn't that much of a fan of them literally dropping his backstory as It but I kinda get that is to serve the military plot (which is also probably why I didn't liked it that much lol), I liked more to see how he came to take the body of the original Pennywise, because for It that body is just a tool, if they showed us just this it would've been more cool, I think It is one of these characters that the less you understand it *hehe* the more scary it is, but I've come to terms with the fact that he's not that anymore so I just try to enjoy seeing him disturbing the peace, MASS-TERIA!!

I'm curious and I don't really know where the series will go from here tho, I'm kinda scared too, apparently is going to have multiple seasons and I really really hope it doesn't turn into the new Stranger Things where each season feels like it would be a great time to end it and they just don't? and lately I've been feeling like the sequels of great things go backwards in terms of quality, but we'll see, and just like with this first season I would be more than happy to be proven wrong!

Physical: 100

28/11/2025 reality TV | One hundred contestants in top physical shape compete in a series of grueling challenges to claim the honor - and cash reward - as the last one standing.

I was a fan of the first season of Physical: 100 back when it came out so when I realized there was a second season AND a spin-off dedicated to Asia I was pretty excited!

Physical: Asia, 2025.

Mostly watched this one with my mom, it was pretty fun! I was rooting for both Korea and Mongolia so it was cool (and conflicting T__T!!) to see them both in the finals! I'm glad that Korea won but Mongolia put up such a good fight despite being seen as a weak team most of the time, their teamwork was pretty interesting in a lot of the matches, and man, Adiyasuren was THE GOAT!! SHE WAS SO GOOD AND COOL IN EVERY GAME SHE WAS IN! I ended up disliking Australia a bit because of how cocky they felt sometimes, but I have to admit they were also a pretty strong team ~_~

Physical: 100 Season 2, 2024.

Having watched Physical: Asia first I was a bit biased towards Amotti and Kim Dong-Hyun (hehe). It was kinda funny to see Kim Dong-Hyun's team eliminate Amotti's team, but then watching Amotti come back from hell and then win FIRST PLACE? was so cool! He definitely seemed like a strong contestant in Physical: Asia but I wasn't expecting to see him win the whole thing!

There was this one challenge where one of the team's contestants fell from the circuit and his team got scared, while the other one celebrated, and you get to see a slow-mo reaction of both teams, the disbelief and the happiness, then the guy from the winning team also falls when he's so close to winning and both teams' reaction interchange, it was so fun to watch LMAO such a fun series.

Amotti's victory was pretty fun to watch too, but I felt bad for Hong Beom-Seok, he definitely redeemed himself after his early elimination in season 1, and even though he ended in second place, I think it must've felt so frustrating to be so close to winning T_T Seeing people get injured and eliminated for not being able to participate in their fullest potential was pretty sad too < /3

Overall both of them were a fun and entertaining watch, with my favorite being Physical: Asia! I think this show does a great job of being super entertaining; the sets feel huge and intimidating even for the smallest challenges, the challenges themselves are never boring, you can feel the punishing nature of them, the cinematography is cool, I think I just dislike how much they can use the slowmo in the editing at some points but it doesn't really ruined for me lol. I'm currently watching The Final Draft since the strongest (and my favorite) contestant from Japan's teams is also there, so I'll probably write an entry about it then! Ahhh I'm addicted to these kinds of reality tv shows and the ones that we have here in México have been so lackluster lately I'm happy to feel hyped again!

Wolf Man, 2025, dir. Leigh Whannell

06/11/2025 movie | A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable.

I don't even know how I ended up watching this one, the name is kinda silly, and I don't even like werewolves really. I think it was the poster that caught my attention, and it was okay. Even though I find werewolves in general kinda lame I think the director did an interesting job here, a body horror that looks pretty cool, painful and disgusting at times, one that it's also kinda sad in the context of the movie. The way they slowly couldn't understand each other got me y_y

However, the family aspect felt kinda weak to me, not because I hate being focused on a family by itself but because I don't think it was handled in the best way, and since it's the major focus of the movie that was somewhat of an issue. From the moment the dad and the daughter did the whole "oh you're reading my mind!" thing for the second time I knew they were going to incorporate it later and by the third time I was like "OH MY GOD I GET IT!!", I also feel like the daughter's character would've been better if protrayed by a younger child? like a lot of how she acted didn't make sense for a girl her age, the mom character also felt weird, the drama between both her daughter and her husband just didn't land for me, I don't think she was bad or anything but it would've made more sense if she were the protagonist's sister or something, like being the mother adds a weight that doesn't land. Didn't hate it, the first scene was probably the hightlight, the cinematography was cool and there were some interesting concepts (the vision of the dad as a werewolf), some emotional moments got me because I'm a baby as per usual and some shots were genuinely creepy.

Abadi Nan Jaya (The Elixir), 2025, dir. Kimo Stamboel

28.10.2025 movie | A dysfunctional family running a renowned herbal medicine business. The owner of the company attempts to innovate by creating a new potion, which ends up triggering a zombie outbreak.

It was fun as a zombie movie, a bit frustrating at times but ended up being kinda funny to see the protagonist make the worst decisions possible and see how they would fail or work in their favor, I think the movie leaned itself onto that and it was funny. The scene at the end with the police man and his girlfriend almost made me cry because I'm a baby.

Weapons, 2025, dir. Zach Cregger.

26/10/2025 movie | When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

My first exposure to Weapons was from twt making a whole of noise back when the teasers came out, and I do think they were pretty cool and eerie, but twt being twt was like "OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE LOOKS SOOOOOO SCARY IS GOING TO CHANGE HORROR FOREVER!! JORDAN PELE FIRED HIS MANAGER BECAUSE HE COULDN'T GET HIM THE RIGHTS FOR THIS MOVIE THAT'S SOOO CRAZY!!", so at first I had my doubts about it. I finally watched it the other day and I'm glad it was actually enjoyable to me, I think it's definitely an improvement from Barbarian and a cool movie by itself.

Some of the decisions felt kinda weird, like the nightmare sequences in the first two chapters, like yeah I get it, but I feel like they drag the movie a bit, that one dream of the teacher in the classroom feels like it was made purely for the trailer lol.

It was cool when it did it's own thing, the Marcus chapter was the closest to being scary, Benedict Wong did a great job at being a scary and unhinged guy! I think it was also cool to see different perspectives, especially from Archer as the dad of one of the missing kids, and Alex, the only kid who didn't go missing. I also saw a few people dissapointed by the fact that a witch was behind everything but I think it was cool, maybe I'm a bit biased because I ABSOLUTELY loved Gladys and I kinda wanted her to win LMAO. I love iconic villains who steal the show, I also think there was also a nice balance between showing her enough and not too much, her death scene was pretty funny and grotesque, the moment you could hear the kids and screaming and running upstairs I was like AIN'T NO WAAAAY!

Not the scariest thing ever but I like when movies go creative and even silly, I'm excited to see Zach Cregger work in the future, I think that even if one of his movies turn out bad he has potential to make something entertaining.

Final Destination Bloodlines, 2025, Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein

22.10.2025 movie | Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.

I'm not a hater of Final Destination but I think it's a franchise that has more misses than hits, I got curious to watch this one because I watched a clip of the initial premonition and it caught my attention enough to make me watch it, it was fun! I think it's a step into the right direction, I saw the behind-the-scenes for the garbage truck death and it looked so fun lol, definitely an upgrade from the last few movies with terrible CGI and deaths so dumb that are not even funny, like yeah, some of the fun of the movie is creativity-over-realism but sometimes (like the gymnastic death) it's just too dumb. They delivered with fun death scenes this time and you know that's obviously a bit of the focus for the fanbase lol.

And speaking of the fanbase I think the fanservice was nice, some sort of "Hey, we still got it, and we remember YOU!! 🫵 THE AUDIENCE MEMBER!!". Saying goodbye to Tony Todd was a nice touch, some people didn't like it because it made his character less "mysterious" or something but I though it was nice, what else was there to do with his character anyway?

The ending was a bit lackluster though, like yeah I didn't expected them to survive but they died in such a sudden fashion that is even kinda funny, something that's cool about past movies endings (like the one in the third movie) is that they built suspence in the fakeout and it's cool to see them slowly realize that they can't outrun death, here I feel like everything happened too fast, it didn't ruined the movie for me though, it was fun.

The Monkey, 2025, dir. Oz Perkins

20.10.2025 movie | Two twin brothers find a toy monkey left behind by their father, which seems to bring death to their family. Years later, the monkey IS BACK!!

It's been a while since I watched this one but I wanted to log it because I LOVED IT and it's one of my favorite recent movies, it caught my attention since I watched the trailer because that "The monkey that likes killing our family... It's back" line is PERFECTION (I wouldn't recommend to watch the trailer tho, it pretty much spoils most of the kills and I think it's better to watch it blind).

It did not dissapoint, at first I though it was just going to be a LOL SO RANDOM XD movie but it won me over the more I watched, the whole plot is so absurd and it leans on it perfectly, I legit laughed so many times and had a great time, the humor was absurd, the dialogue was funny, the editing did some things that made me lose my shit many times, even the deaths, often described as freak accidents by the movie, were so fucking funny because how much of an absurd and gory mess they are. I love horror comedies and this was an extremely fun watch. Theo James is also such a cutie honk honk :o)

Heartopia

25/01/26 playing

Started playing Heartopia like a while ago, it's been super fun! I wrote about it on my journal but in a more technical sense, yeah, PC version feels a bit weird, something that has been pointed out by a lot of players, so considering this and that the game hasn't been out that long let's hope that the PC ver. gets a better release than something that feels like a phone port. It's not unplayable but yeah. Besides that I don't have lots of issues with it, the events sometimes take forever to start if it's not you or one of your friends organizing it which can be a bit annoying, the fact that you can only level up once a day was a bit weird to me, but after playing it for a week I got used to it and has been pretty fun! It's called lowlife for something so it's more a me-issue than anything lol -w-

04/02/26, edit: I'm still having lots of fun, but man this game is a buggy mess LMAO. It's so frustrating when sometimes your food goes to waste just because the game lagged, or when you can't do anything with your pets because they're on the roof. I also have an issue where my character's hair changes color for no reason when it does stuff relating to water (taking a bath, relaxing at the onsen), though this bug is more funny than anything lol. These issues have been pointed out to the devs and they don't seem to acknowledge them which can be a bit frustrating ~_~ I hope they're just taking their time instead of just straight up ignoring the community.

Little Nightmares III & REANIMAL

16/10/2025 finished

I didn't hate Little Nightmares III but it was a bit of a dissapointing buggy mess, hopefully the future content does it favors but as a fan you shouldn't have to wait for a DLC's in order to get a nice, better and/or full experience. The REANIMAL demo was pretty exciting and deserved of the hype that Supermassive games sadly couldn't fulfill. I wrote my full thoughs on my journal.

No, I'm not a Human

27/09/2025 finished

I had my doubts about this one at first because some of the faces are obviously heavily inspired by other sources (like the pale visitor who's face model is clearly inspired on that one Judge Holden art), so I thought it was just another analog horror slop, but a friend gifted it to me and have to say, I was pleasantly surprised!

The characters are pretty interesing to learn about and that makes it nice to replay, it's cool to see the different outcomes, the different endings and different visitors, I had to play like 3 times to get that UGLY ASS CAT, AND I LOVED IT!! I'll probably keep playing and maybe add an update because we have more visitors coming to the game, but as for now I have to say it was a pleasant surprise, some of my favorite visitors at the moment are the coat guy, the cashier lady and the amogus guy who I haven't met yet but has immaculate drip.

The Boys

05/06/2026 Comic | Some superheroes have to be watched, some have to be controlled, and some of them need to be taken out of the picture. That's when you call in The Boys.

I started seeing discourse about the comic after the show's shitty ending, and some panels actually caught my attention enough to make me want to read it, and I was pleasantly surprised!

It's funny to have seen the reputation of the comic go from "THE COMIC FUCKING SUCKED, THE SHOW IS BETTER!" to "THE SHOW FUCKING SUCKED, THE COMIC WAS ALWAYS BETTER!", and I might confess that I felt for the "the comic sucked" and didn't even bother to read it back when it was first brought to the conversation even though I was kinda interested in watching the show, now I'm glad that I actually read it lol.

Now, the comic is not without its issues, and I do agree with a lot of the criticism people had for it; it's clear that Garth Ennis doesn't like superheroes, I read one of the interviews at the end of a chapter and he was asked if this would be the last time he would be working on a superhero comic and he was like "God I hope so" lmao. His way of showing his disdain for the genre is by going through an edge fest, and this is what pulled me away from the comic at first, I hate the whole "Whoops! It was contempt for the medium all along!" type of writing, BUT I gotta say, although it gets old really fast in The Boys, at least Garth Ennis didn't allow his disliking of the genre detract from the story he wanted to tell (unlike a certain someone who ruined one of the show's best characters because of his derangement), he might even give him some grace as shown on the Super Duper Team arc, and I gotta say that sometimes even the depravity of the supers got so over the top and stupid that I found it more funny because of the absurdity than annoying.

Although I haven't watched the show yet, I've spoiled myself a decent amount, so I was surprised by how little Homelander appears compared to his show version, and it's something that I really liked! The protagonists should have always been The Boys, especially Hughie and Butcher, with Homelander being in the background working on some devious shit, showing him just enough for him to be seen as a fraud but not as much to take away how really dangerous he could be. I also liked his ending. One of the main complaints I saw about the comic was that the whole Black Noir plot twist came out of nowhere, but it really wasn't. He (alongside Homelander) just wasn't the main focus on the comic until shit hit the fan. I do agree that it might have needed some more work, and the fights between him and also the army versus the supers were super (hehe) lackluster, but I don't feel like it was a shitty ending at all, after all the comic is mostly through the lens of Hughie and Butcher. I liked Homelander as a character, the way he was just a product and came to the realization that he wasn't even that special was neat. Also, the fact that the only thing that made him "special" was being a psycho and that wasn't even him, his whole talking to the mirror and the "Why can't I do the things I can do?" meltdowns were so pathetic and perfect for him as a character, It was really cool to see this asshole of a character try to convince himself that he was way worse than he really was. It was also cool to look out for clues of what things Black Noir did instead of him from having spoiling myself beforehand.

I also liked The Boys as a group; I didn't expect for Billy Butcher to steal my heart too. I love characters that are blinded by revenge, and he got so out there that it turned into deep hatred onto the supers as a whole, this made for a really cool dynamic between him and Hughie, as someone who's hate for the supers was still fresh. Seeing him actually stop Butcher from killing the Super Duper Team because they were actually harmless was so sad, and oh man, the Super Duper Team arc (which is actually called The Innocents) might be my favorite because of how fucking heartbreaking it is, the way Garth Ennis (as mentioned before) makes not only the reader but also Hughie take a glimpse into supers who are not depraved assholes was a needed breath of fresh air, I was so happy that despite everything Hughie's involvement actually saved them not only from Butcher but also from Malchemical.

The actual ending was pretty cool too, seeing Butcher go full homicidal even after his revenge was completed, not only against supers but his team, was both grim and cool, him manipulating Hughie to the very end to get him to kill him really showed a glimpse of the sick man he had always been. He recognized that he was nothing without his violent impulses and without revenge as a motive to keep going, so he preferred to go. Just a deeply insane and cool character from beginning to end.

Besides that, I really liked other characters, the way Queen Maeve had given up after the disaster from the plane, but she still stood up for Starlight here and there, and the way she got the strength to leave from her, all the way to saving her life, was both a cool and heartbreaking glimpse of her character, she was really tragic and I wish we saw more of her besides her just being a piece of meat for the other supers most of the time, her character design might be one of my favorites on the whole comic too. Starlight was also really cool and I wish we saw more of her too, I feel like from the point her and Hughie broke up she kinda disappeared for most episoed, which I understand because the story focused more on Hughie's side but I just really liked her, and not that I dislike what we got from her because I think her being a sweetheart who had to be pushed to stand up for herself was really cool, but yeah. The female might be one of my favorite characters in the comic, I just love female characters that are straight-up violent, brutal and a menace while also staying kinda cute, she was one of the characters that caught my attention when the show started and seeing her comic version was awesome. I almost killed myself at issue #69.

I might watch the show when I'm done watching Invincible and give a comparison when I write down my log entry, and I might read the spin-offs too in the future, but for now, I just gotta say that I liked the comic a lot!

The Bellybuttons, Issue #1 to #6

--/--/-- Comic | Life is Cruel. Deal with it.

A really cynical and cruel comic that is fun to read about how evil it can get. I enjoy seeing awful female characters, and the dynamics are really interesting. The way Vicky has to put down everyone around her, even her so-called friends, just to feel less insecure about herself, the way Jenny is so superficial because she kinda doesn't know better and Karine just takes the abuse and bullying until she doesn't it's really cool to see. BUT, I gotta be honest, I kinda soft-dropped this one LMAO.

I do plan to finish it because I'm not that far, I think I have like two issues left, but, and this is going to sound crazy, I liked it more when the focus was just how mean-spirited Jenny and Vicky could be (especially Vicky who's the brains of it) because at least it felt unique, watching something good happen to Karine or Vicky and Jenny suffer the consequences of their actions was very rewarding, but by Issue #6 I feel like the plot feels so different, from the point Karine changes her looks and almost her whole complete personality (which is something that I understand plot-wise, don't get me wrong), it started giving me Riverdale vibes, or just a story that I could watch on any other netflix original, and I totally understand if people vibe with it but it wasn't really my thing lol. I might come back to this entry and write my final thoughts, but for now I really enjoyed the first few issues, especially up to Issue #4.