Q: Huh?
   
A: This is both an individualized continuation of the "Recommended Reading Round-up"
   project and my debut contribution to  https://www.piratebays.to/user/STFmaryville  's
   "Not Reading" initiative. Which merging of concepts I actually managed to cram 
   into the title, after a fashion, at the price of an (even for me) unusually high 
   degree of grammatical-convolution-per-character density. :P
   
   
Q: So, what's on the menu this month?
   
A: The first Dark Horse volume of Victor Santos' "Polar", aka "Black Kaiser".
   
   You'll probably like this if you already like any of the following:
   
    - Ian Fleming's "James Bond" books and/or the resultant movies;
    - Frank Miller's "Sin City" books;
    - the Hard-Boiled/Noir genre, generally speaking;
    - the "Show, Don't Tell" principle, even more generally speaking.
   
   You'll *definitely* like this if you liked the premise of Warren Ellis' "RED"
   (and/or the resultant movies, I suppose, considering that the premise is pretty
   much all they have in common), but found his execution a bit lacking and trite.
   
   Sample:  http://image.bayimg.com/12ba9217ab285036651ec5eb3c68e71f5a746e2c.jpg
   
   (My favourite page, both for the elegant paneling and because it's the lead-in 
   to a strikingly story-boarded sequence of scrumptiously squicky slaughter.)