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| generic SF with some potentialThere are all sorts of mangas out there, and the world outside the Tokyop one is vast indeed, so only God can know how it happened that you stumbled upon this. For myself I know the answer - it was a piece of work that publisher in our country decided to publish, and considering the relatively high number of copies distributed it was rather cheap. I should mention here that I do not intend to talk exclusevly about first volume of Psy Comm, I intend to say a few words about the work in it's entirety (it's only three volumes long so it shouldn't last too much).
Now, what do we have here? It's a relatively standard story about distopian society of the future in which the war ha become the ultimate reality show. Wars are lead for power, glory and property (which is not entirely fictious as you might agree). New heroes of this world, domiated by market control and smart advertising, are pys warriors - specialy trained troops, with all sorts of abilities that surpasses those of regular soldiers. They are like a pop-start of warfare. Somewhere here, thing start to happen. As with any diistopian society that does hold for it' name, you should have opponents, some kind of rebels, barbarians on whose ideology and influence you can blame anything you want. These ones are inhabitants of Wild Land (or something like that in our translation), bunch of rebels who, by various reasons decided to fight off the giant corporations.
All of this looks pretty standard, and when you finish the first volume you feel somewhat disappointed. This feeling of the absence of ideas comes to mind, and indeed, first volume looks like something that was scribbled on a piece of paper during lunch break. You put togethere every distopian reference in a past few decades, combine it with generic, rather unimaginative characters and you have your potential hit that will hit some people in a right spot make no doubt about it.
As story evolves, world became much more nuanced, and it starts to feel real". One can easily relate with characters, with their struggle for survival, and absurdities of genre one can easily cast aside considering that this was never intended to be a standalone graphic novel. Characters are still generic (considering how they look), but they start to slip out of their place, and instead of dialogues you could easily predict, they start to develop some character, and scenario tends towards melancholic tragedy. Though there are bright spots in the entire work, spots that could be valued for their sake alone, one could not help but feel empty spaces inside the narrative structure, those kind of places in writing where i obvious that authors just copy/paste ideas so that they didn't need to bother with their own. Psy comm has potential, and if it should ever be done in a proper way it could become one of the masterpieces of contemporary comics, but considering the state in which it is, one should look the other way.
Oh yes, it seems that this particular product has some educative value? I wouldn't know about that since there was none in our edition, so for information about that you should look somewhere else.
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| Less successful hybridWhen I purchased this text for some research on using sequential art (i.e., comics) for teaching, I really wanted to like it. I figured that if a respectable company like Kaplan was using sequential art, then that would be a good step forward.
Unfortunately, this amalgamation of computer game setting, manga illustrations, ACT vocabulary, and narrative art didn't gel. On the high end of accomplishment, the manga drawings are great. Going downhill: the WarCraft setting seems like it would be a smart choice, but it doesn't give any of the satisfaction that the game might give; the vocab definitions are placed visually in a way that seems like it really 'should' work, but the definitions are sketchy at best; and worst of all, the narrative is just rotten---from the dialogue which jolts over speedbumps like "nefarious" coming out of the mouths of characters which, IMHO, would NOT say such things, to the unrelentingly irritating cliff-hanger stopping-point (it does NOT conclude), the story-telling is miserable.
My only hope is that this kind of experimentation won't convince people that sequential art CANNOT be used for sophisticated purposes. Hopefully, people will see it as a sketch of what is possible to accomplish and then go farther. Please....?
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| Good material, thats itI am an above average student taking Honors Chemistry. I got this book because I had used the Barron's series of SAT II review books before. The material in this book was good, it has very good explanations, the lab setups were descriptive and overall the explanations were very helpful. Then I moved on to the practice tests. Going through the answers to the practice tests, I made an alarming discovery, some of the answers were blatantly incorrect. The book kept switching endothermic and exothermic reactions on its test answers (for example, they had the graph of the required activation energy for a specific reaction however it was incorrectly labeled as being endothermic when it was really exothermic) For questions 100 - 115 on the test, if statements A and B were true and CE, then there would be no explanation for the answers at all. On occasions, the book said that information on a specific topic could be found on page X but once I got there it was nowhere to be found. There were other, numerous incorrect answers that they said were actually correct.
So overall, the book has very good information and it is a good study aid, but you must make sure that when you take a practice test you actually check the answers that the book provides to make sure that they are correct because on several occasions, the answers they provide are incorrect.
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