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Ridiculous, Juil 4 2004
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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Inexplicably Well-Liked Pop Excresence, Janv. 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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Coffee-Filtered Punk, Janv. 8 2004
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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