by Brian Wood, Ryan Kelly
Dear Mr. Wood,if you are going to have a main character who "grew up" Brooklyn as opposed to moved here from somewhere else, there is no way in hell that she would say "New York City's not so intimidating",when going to Manhattan for the first time to go to College @ NYU!.Anyone who was born here wo...
Beautifully referenced background art (NYU alums will be schoolsick) and sharp visual storytelling do not compensate for the banality of said story and the characters who people it.
The latest in the new Minx series of graphic novels targeted at teenage girls and created by (straight bio) men. The state of comix tempts me into gender essentialist critique. I guess the real question is why don't publishers like DC Comics hire more women graphic novelists? More on this later.
I have to thank B. for getting this for me.I'm crazy about the minx books, :P yeah i know, it's such a girl thing.Either way, Brian Wood here shows us a both a story of growing up and how sometimes you just screw up, while at the same time showing us a picture of New York not everyone sees :)
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