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Fred Chao
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Danielle's Reading Adventures
Danielle's Reading Adventures rated it 9 years ago
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...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 10 years ago
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...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 10 years ago
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 ...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 11 years ago
Buy this title at Powells Books.
brandonsears
brandonsears rated it 11 years ago
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...
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