Caleb Berens’s Reviews > Strange Adventures > Status Update

good God almighty. This is Godfather II level bleak.

yeah holy cow this is crazy. only question tho: who is the one talking just out of view the whole chapter???

The calm before the storm- I don’t know much of what happened this episode other than Adam gaining in-universe right wing news stations to be on his side but other than that? 🤷‍♂️ otherwise really excited to see where this goes; and what exactly happened to their daughter.

genuinely feels like Brad Bird meets Scorsese in some ways. Genuinely flawed character but everything around them, including their reasoning, makes you want to believe in them, but I have a feeling that is misplaced belief here.

(also loved the way the interrogation scenes were cut between, great pacing)

rewound a little bit to make sure I remembered this as I picked it up- and yeah it’s epic. I know I said before this screams HBO, but I could also see an edited down version for a DePalma esche feature adaptation.

“I mean, I just wanted to die. YOU want to die, right? You get it.”

Adam Strange… what did you do??? Really well done by King to transition the protagonists so smoothly. I love this book now.

“Aleea, my love. Did… did you… grow?”
“I DID grow! Can I hug you? I missed you.”
“Yes honey. You can hug me.
I missed you too.”

This. Is. So. So. Sad.
It’s. Giving. Breaking. Bad.

“In the end, we’re all islands. And no one asks who the bell is tolling for.

No one even hears it ring.”

Nihilism, born of trauma. Secret sins as trip mines hidden all over your footpath. This may be a perfect book. 📕

It’s Alanna’s world, we just live in it. It is a… blessing really, to have you (…) here to share with the American people that this is not the time for panic.”
“Bullshit.” “What?” “I SAID bullshit.”

In a perfect world we’d get Angelina Jolie to play her.

I don’t know if this is a hot take but I love the political, tabloid war more than the alien war for Rann. That is until you have that epic page where Adam sees red… bloody brilliant. But yeah this rocks. Mature storytelling while unashamed of its genre status.

PS I love the blue filter. Really all the filters. Keep em’ coming.