{"id":12806,"date":"2020-04-29T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12806"},"modified":"2021-06-07T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:22:24","slug":"lady-mechanika-vol-5-la-belle-dame-sans-merci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12806","title":{"rendered":"Lady Mechanika, Vol. 5: La Belle Dame Sans Merci"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Mechanika<\/a>, Vol. 5: La Belle Dame Sans Merci<\/em><\/a> (2019) Joe Benitez, M. M. Chen, Martin Montiel<\/p>\n

\"La<\/a>This… did not end particularly well.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t a cliff-hanger, but it also wasn’t clean.<\/p>\n

Also, the next volume doesn’t exist right now, which doesn’t help.<\/p>\n

So Mr. Archibald Lewis, Lady Mechanicka’s friend and Fred’s uncle, is a mess.<\/p>\n

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But he’s learned something, that an arm, possibly one like Lady Mechanicka’s–has been discovered. In trying to learn more, Lady Mechanicka gets herself into trouble.<\/p>\n

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She does get some assistance from the Inspector, but he follows the law, and she does not always.<\/p>\n

And then there is Fred, who is all but abandoned, and has to depend on her Uncle Lewis, who is a mess. And when he gets into more of a mess, Fred and Mechanicka have to save him–perhaps from himself.<\/p>\n

I was very much reminded, both in the story and the art, of the ST:DS9 episode, The Muse. Which makes me wonder what mythology and fairy tales that story was based upon.<\/p>\n

I do love the art, but I did find the ending less than satisfactory.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Benitez Productions
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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