Culture Journal 2022 (English)

Holyshit... HOLYSHIIIIIIIIT. This is, by far, one of the best comic series I've read in my whole life, it's probably just one of the best stories I've read in my life. I feel like this will be one of those entries that are contradictorialy short because I loved this comic so much that I can barely find words to describe it (spoiler alert: it, indeed, was quite long). In general I can just say that is really good fucking written. Science Fiction is a genre with a lot of potential to make a deep introspection and sensible in really complex themes, and this story achieves it perfectly. A futuristic city in wich is illegal to feel emotion, and in which suddenly a violent crime takes place it's a really ambitious premise, and any less skilled writer definitley would have done a disaster with it, but Jemisin uses it in the best way to build a complex and hooking plot that  covers themes of power, inequality, revolution, manipulation, repression, justice and, evidently, emotio

This was one of the most emotionally complex pieces that I've ever encountered. I entered this knowing very little about Kendrick Lamar outside of To Pimp A Butterfly, and that was plenty enough for me to have my expectations real high already for this one. And oh my God it did not fail to meet them at all . It's a really similar album to TPAB actually, in many different ways, the more raw and personal approach on a lot of songs and the sort of narrative that it has throughout the 2 discs that it encompasses, but while TPOAB looked mainly into the bigger picture of society and how it connected to Kendrick's personal struggle, and this one does that a bit too, but it's so much more personal, and that's amazing. It really feels like the type of project and artist does for themselves, being driven only by the impulse of self expression, where every sound, word, and creative decision is what feels best to the artist, not what would "work better" in a technica