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This was a cute graphic novel. Lots of randomness and improbability. The hero is very ordinary, but he gets into the most extraordinary scrapes. At the heart, he's a guy in love with his girlfriend and wanting to make a good life for the both of them. He seems to look to hip hop artists for his life...
ETA: Is Johnny Hiro originally from the West Coast? He uses the term freeway once which really stuck out to me (it's not widely used on the East Coast if it's used at all). I can't tell if this book is less weird than the first one or if I just got used to the weirdness. Mayor Bloomberg's presence...
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I read this. I liked the artwork style. It's pretty minimalist which was nice after some of the other books/comics/manga I read last month. I wasn't a huge fan of the "cameos," and I think I might have liked them better if I were a New Yorker and/or got more ...
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Struggling as an underpaid and undervalued sushi chef in New York City, John Hiro is having an existential crisis. He’s not sure that he’s the boyfriend that the lovely girlfriend Mayumi deserves nor does he have any idea where his life is headed. With all these questions floating around in his he...