Ghost of Hoppers

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Did anyone get this? I was a little disappointed at first, but I thought the last third was great. No other comic is this good at using time, even if jsut in little details like the way the different characters look their age. The pre-Death of Speedy issues were great at immersing you in a tangled communal scene--the closest a non-Gilbert-written comic's come to the social novel. But these newer issues, while maybe more slight, are really good at showing what it's like to be an atomized, slightly crushed, job-reduced adult.

kenchen, Friday, 7 April 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

I reviewed it (um, a little too early, I thought it was out already) here: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/06/hernandez/index.html

Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

From Douglas' (great) article:

Her greatest years are behind her, and she knows it.

I think this has always been the case in Locas, it's sort of the gold standard in any medium for portraying people living after the golden age.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

I love that 'I-I'm normal!' page. (In L&RII #2, so early on in the book.) I seem to have had that inner dialogue a few times... I try to stop short of admitting to normality, though... ;-)

_chrissie (chrissie1068), Friday, 7 April 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)


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