Kinda slow to get back into....very political. But after pushing through I recall how good this is. Should probably not wait too long to finish this series.

I had trouble following/enjoying this one as well as the previous two volumes. It got very political or abstract weird and felt like the plot wasn't moving.

Babylon + Balloon are my favorite thing now. Can't wait to see more of them

With the background details mostly established, the plot ticks forward in the third East of West volume. Death makes minor strides towards his son (who receives a full, thrilling issue!), so the main players here are the factional leaders. They meet at Armistice to discuss unclear topics, but the topics don't matter anyway since the meeting almost immediately collapses, leading to war.Great! Further the apocalypse. Even with Death's journey on the back-burner, I'm loving East of West so far. The...

Bullet Review:Hickman, what are you on? Meth? Acid? Shrooms? Can you get me some?This series is basically what Hickman saw after reading the book of Revelation while high as an effing kite.When will I ever learn that I'll never understand Hickman???

This title is growing on me. There Is No Us starts off strong and ends strong.You really can't ask for much more than that when reading a sci-fi western apocalypse comic.The more I get to know all the players, the more interested I become in this world. What the hell even happened here? How did that kid end up hooked up to a machine, why is Mao so mad at Death. How did they meet and fall in love to start with?And the villains are delicious. That wrinkly old hag is seriously creepy. I don't want

I wish I was reading this series monthly, cause it's a tough one to pick up after six months absence and try to remember everything that's going on. Hickman's world is huge, with a deep and rich history that might occasionally leave you scratching your head if you're not paying close attention. That said, the events in volume three are fantastic, with a sprawling story that explores new viewpoints. We get some great resolution and some exciting new groundwork as "The Beast's" arc completes, sett...

Man this series is so good! One of my faves.

Hmmm . . . I dunno . . . still pretty good, but so strange. I have read a couple of graphic novels recently where the story just flowed and grabbed me. This one still feels a bit like work.I will say that I am not completely lost. But it is a case where I start to feel like I know what is going on and then the story goes on some seriously odd, hallucinogenic-fueled side trip and I am totally lost again. It’s a mental tennis match with my mind going back and forth: “AH-HA!” – “WHAT?” – “AH-HA!” –...

Holy s***! This volume! Also: spoilers for volume 1. What’s it about?Do I really need to try explaining that? I’m not gonna bother with all that.Why it gets 5 stars:The story is still fantastic and it keeps getting better with more in depth world building and a progressing story!The art is sofa king great! This series has so many incredible panels!The characters continue to be interesting. I love what they do with Death’s son and the balloon!The action scenes are are amazing in this volume! I ha...

One of the better volumes so far. Although the second volume felt a little more like filler, volume three picks up and takes off immediately. It does take a second to get to the cliff hanger from vol two, but when it does, it's pretty badass. In the meantime you get to see what the nations are willing to do to keep the upper hand and that not all nations have control of its own people. Another sweet cliff hanger at the end, I'm excited to get to volume four.Also, has anyone actually read the bac...

Finally Hickman throws a few answers to all those lingering questions at us and all out hell breaks out between the different nations.

3.5 stars. I never really understand fully what is going on in every scene but I guess the art style makes up for my confusion. But Death and his plot line seems to be my favourite so far.

East of West volume 3 is a huge improvement from its previous two volumes. The build-up, particularly on the war between the nations of the Chosen has been carefully executed. The looming war is a breath of fresh air from the apocrypha plot and I am looking forward to where this would end.Even scenes with the three lame horsemen are hauntingly weird but beautiful. Death's screentimes do not stand out in this volume but takes on an exciting route as he is on a path that might cross with the other...

Now it's bubblin' baby! New Shanghai goes to the Nations' Conference looking for war. Will they get the war they want? Meanwhile virtually all the other Nations and their Chosen are knee deep in scheming, planning, feinting, ducking and diving ...yes all the ings! Meanwhile Death and his Witches seek The Beast, as do the Three Horsemen, but one party wants him dead, the other want to save him! With a now more rounded idea of the the characters and reality (spread across seven nations and two opp...

Overall this story has been very good. What I struggle with--and I suppose it translates well to most comic books with the exception of The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes series--is the fact that comic books don't exactly provide a template within which you can connect with the characters. In the Sandman, I desperately fell in love with Delirium and Dream, but I was already in love with Gaiman's writing before engaging those characters. East of West #1 is a fantastic story. It personifi...

Re-read: February 9, 2016After giving this one a re-read, right after re-reading volumes 1 & 2, I'm going to raise this up to a 4 star because it really is so great. The complexity, as with the first 2 volumes, can be a bit confusing at times, but after reading it again, it's all just so well crafted and excellent that I have to give it a higher rating. Now I can't wait to read vol. 4 because that is one I haven't gotten around to yet! ----3.5 starsThis one was a bit more confusing and felt like...

Wtf?I think it's been too long since I read vols 1-2. Like over a year...Art is fun, colour is good. Imaginative, but boring.I read vol 4 after this so I can't recall what went where...I think this is where there's a meeting of all the factions and hell breaks out.Literally, it all just seems to lead to that.

You need to be really high to understand this volume is what hickman is trying to say feels like..reading this.Its high sci-fi dystopian thing. Death is on the hunt for his child and the nations go to war and well because of Xialing and we see the endless nation declare so and it will be interesting to watch as we move towards the apocalypse and some subplot by Archibald and some interesting revelations about the crow and his role in the world. And rise of the beast?Its a very confusing volume a...

This was about to be the weakest volume for me, and not in a bad way since it's a lot of world building....but then that last issue hit. So this volume is a big volume of how the world leaders are dealing with everything. It's filled of a lot of politics, and while interesting, is the slower half of these stories. Then we see what Death is dealing with after someone fucked up his one lead. On top of that we're also dealing with the 3 other horsemen and their mission. The stuff with death is grea...