Pranas T. Naujokaitis

Slow start, strong finish. It took me a while to warm up to the literary conceit of having the Challenger disaster being a history lesson for students on a space station orbiting Mars in the year 2386, and the first third of the book is a boring info dump of dates and numbers, but the narrative picks up once it starts delving into the lives of the Challenger crew and the events leading up to the explosion. Even in comic form, turning the page on the fateful moment was still a punch in the show more gut. The late Richard Feynman takes the spotlight in the final section as he walks us through his investigation of the causes of the disaster.

Side note: I only realized a couple days after the fact that I had coincidentally and wholly unintentionally read this book on January 28th, the anniversary of the disaster. show less

I really wanted to like this. The characters are so flipping adorable, and I like the general magical girl premise of it. But I feel this is definitely a comic intended for people already deeply familiar with the web series (which I didn't even know existed), and there was very little in it for me to connect with. The first chapter was very engaging and introduced the characters pretty well, but after that everything just fell apart. I am going to check out the web series, and maybe I'll show more revisit the book to see if I appreciate any of the chapters more after that, but overall, I was not impressed. show less

I really wanted to like this. The characters are so flipping adorable, and I like the general magical girl premise of it. But I feel this is definitely a comic intended for people already deeply familiar with the web series (which I didn't even know existed), and there was very little in it for me to connect with. The first chapter was very engaging and introduced the characters pretty well, but after that everything just fell apart. I am going to check out the web series, and maybe I'll show more revisit the book to see if I appreciate any of the chapters more after that, but overall, I was not impressed. show less

I love Bee and Puppycat. The series has a really cool, wry sense of humour that I find really approachable.

It is a web series, so if you like the series, you'll like the comic books. It's more or less the same, and while I really like the script and the general concept, I read it mostly for the artwork. It's very punchy and dynamic and the artist is not afraid of colour.

The plot isn't always the strongest, but it was really cool to see other artists contribute to the volumes and see how show more they wrote and how they drew. I'm always interested in the composition of comic books, and that was a cool feature.

Check out the web series first, if you like that, check out these comics~ c: show less