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Hopeless Savages Volume 1 Digest
 
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Hopeless Savages Volume 1 Digest (Paperback)

by Jen Van Meter (Author), Christine Norrie (Author), Chynna Clugston-Major (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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There are few people in our lives who have as much influence on us as our mother and father, brothers and sisters. Family ties are the earliest ties that bind, setting the tone for the paths we will take in our future. So what if your father is Dirk Hopeless and your mother Nikki Savage, a superstar couple from the days of punk rock? When you're born a rebel, what can you possibly do to make yourself stand apart? For Rat Hopeless-Savage, the answer is to leave home and start a new life somewhere, become a normal citizen with a nine-to-five job. It's going pretty well, too, until Dirk and Nikki are kidnapped, and suddenly the family Rat tried so hard to deny needs him more than ever. His siblings - sisters Arsenal and Zero, and brother Twitch - know the Rat of old is the only one who can find their parents, and they're determined to make him trade his white-washed existence for the leather jacket and spiked hair of his youth. What follows is a madcap race against the clock, and a hilarious look at what happens when alternative lifestyles become the norm.


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Writer Jen Van Meter has previously been known for her hair-raising stories in The Blair Witch Chronicles and Flinch. Her upcoming work includes Batman: Golden Streets for DC Comics, Spider-Man: Tangled Web and Captain America #50 for Marvel Comics, and a second Hopeless Savages miniseries. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous, Jul 4 2004
By Joe S. (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This book is chocked full of stupid old UK punk cliches, some of them seem to have more in common ground with glam rock than with punk (the Savage parents for instance.) Evil skinheads, the aesthetic mod, some token goth, and the rock star *cough* err punk rock parents. And they are all related by blood. Oh yeah don't forget the brother who sold out and got a job and gave up wearing a leather jacket and spiking his hair up, blah blah...

Just another stupid, cliche glamorization of punk rock "as it used to be". Ultimately this just all dwindles down to bad writing combined with pop sensible art work. It all stinks of the decadence of the Reagan/Thatcher era society that the punk scene was trying to distance itself from.

Ultimately boring and dumb... Maybe if some sense of reality of how things were back then with all the downsides and failings it would have been interesting, but I think that went over the head of the person who wrote this.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Inexplicably Well-Liked Pop Excresence, Jan 30 2004
It is absolutely mystifying to me how anyone at all could rave about this book as many have done. It's not a *bad* book, but then again I have a tolerance for bad built up by exposure to works so putrescent that your average pedestrian comic reader would blanch and quake to behold (yes, worse than 'Lab Rats'). Badness or lack thereof notwithstanding, this is eminently forgetable filler pulp. The story is entirely to charmed with itself, tossing out the ludicrous and the cliche as confidently as if Alan Moore was frantically scribbling praise in the margins. The fact that it was nominated for an Eisner is an example of woefully bad judgement on par with giving Kissenger a Nobel, especially when stacked against other nominees like (for example) Evan Dorkin's work. Perhaps I fail to see THE BRILLIANCE that others are so mad for, but the whole story sounds like the same suger-coated BASH THE FASH! toddler-punk stuff that's been flowing out of the pages of bad teenage 'zines and the mouths of mall core kiddies for years. I'm hardly Johnny Punkexpert over here, but even my basic acquaintance with the scene tells me the kind of derision that this family would be held in by (good Lord, here's fightin' words) 'real punks'. This is not to mention the outlandish and ridicuolously stereotypical manner in which the protagonists dress. They're as representative of punk culture as Stepin Fetchit with a mouthful of watermelon is of African-American culture. But I digress.
The line work is decent, but nowhere near good enough to carry the work on aesthetic merit alone. Besides, who in God's name buys a comic book solely to look at the pretty pictures? C'mon, people, that's what libraries and gullible friends are for.

By the way, for as much kvetching as the father figure does about Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan (who should have their names blackened at every availible opportunity, I hasten to add), I'm willing to bet fifty of your Earth dollars against me getting to hit the writers with a brick that said authors could not give me five minutes worth of discussion about either leader's policies. But that's a personal beef.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Coffee-Filtered Punk, Jan 8 2004
By Brendan Collins (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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Collecting issues #1-4 of the similarly-named comic book series, Jen Van Meter's "Hopeless Savages" is a fun read, if not exactly cerebrally challenging.

Ma & Pa are kidnapped by a vengeful figure from their punk-rockin' past in an attempt to steal away a song secretly written by Dad (Dirk Hopeless). The kids, through whom both aging rockers have been living precariously, have no choice but to rescue them on their own - their whereabouts pinpointed through an unlikely series of events and characters who all but draw a roadmap for the four offspring.

The story is obviously not Pulitzer material, just as it has failed to give any great recognition to the hundreds of likewise-based cartoons and children's fiction previously available. Yet, it is the involved character development and captivating artwork which prove to be the saving graces of "Hopeless Savages."

The book is certainly worth a read or two, especially for those young enough to appreciate the plot details on the level in which they were intended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A modern classic in a slicker design
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Published on Oct 14 2003 by Ian R Shaughnessy

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