The two hundred and sixty-first album: #261 Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A.
I already know funk isn't quite my thing. Funk done by a white man, as much of a genius he might have been considered to be, works even less, as the abundance of sound and energy is replaced with a lonelier sound that doesn't work as well - a folk feel that doesn't work as well with the sound, a musically competent song that feels like it missed the beats it wants to hit. It's not unlistenable at all, but I just didn't get anything I wanted out of it.
The ninety-fifth comic: #415 Jeremiah
There's an appeal to a post apocalyptic setting - on one hand, you've got the back to the wilderness idea, working with your wits without all the technology we have these days. On the other hand, you can use modern conveniences when it suits, repurposing them when needed and still giving that familiar feel. It allows for a lot of different directions, regardless of the source of the apocalypse. While interesting, it feels like a world like that can need more exposition - who are the people, what are they doing, what are the rules that are present. Other settings come with that built in, but here you need more exposition on the world.
Jeremiah doesn't do that well. While the first story sets up Jeremiah and Kurdy, the two protagonists, well enough, outside those two I quickly got lost with what was going on. This is both in the stories, where it can jump from place to place quickly, resolving some things off screen, and having you fill in a few too many blanks to help, and between them, where side characters show up and disappear without much explanation. Sure, often it doesn't matter much, but it left me just about confused enough where, for example, the train carriage they camp in for a few episodes comes from.
The darker art doesn't help much with that, but the clues don't seem to be there in the writing. This might be a victim of the translation, where the albums seemed to be in order but might not be entirely, but it is so present in the stories as well that I don't think my reading exhaustion came only from that set up. So much happens on each page without as much of a guide that the explanations I would hope would follow never materialized.
There is something here, sure, but I think there's something in the story that just didn't give me enough to go on.