- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Vertigo (Jun 15 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401226981
- ISBN-13: 978-1401226985
- Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 1.7 x 26.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #209,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Greendale" is based on Neil Young's critically acclaimed 2003 album and 2004 film of the same name. Many have referred to the album as a "rock novel" which explores the effects of crime, media, consumerism and environmental issues on the Green family in the sheltered small Northern California town of Greendale.
Even for politically active teenage girls, Sun Green has always been different. There's been talk that the Green family women had great powers in concert with nature, but Sun herself never really wondered too much about it. Then, in the fall of 2003, as the nation gallops blindly into war, a Stranger appears in her hometown of Greendale, and everything starts going to hell. In an effort to overcome the pain the Stranger brings, Sun unearths the mystery of the Green family women, and in doing so, finds her own inherent power, not just to confront the Stranger, but to confront the mounting injustice of the world outside of Greendale as well.
Even for politically active teenage girls, Sun Green has always been different. There's been talk that the Green family women had great powers in concert with nature, but Sun herself never really wondered too much about it. Then, in the fall of 2003, as the nation gallops blindly into war, a Stranger appears in her hometown of Greendale, and everything starts going to hell. In an effort to overcome the pain the Stranger brings, Sun unearths the mystery of the Green family women, and in doing so, finds her own inherent power, not just to confront the Stranger, but to confront the mounting injustice of the world outside of Greendale as well.
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This review is from: Neil Young's Greendale (Hardcover)
Great book!Greendale is a story loosely based on the work of Neil Young, as as I understand it, he served as a sort of executive producer for the book, guiding what the book became, but leaving the scripting and heavy lifting to Joshua Dysart, a writer whose talent unfortunately far outshadows his acclaim. Add in the best in coloring and lettering, with Dave Stewart and Todd Klein, and you've got one hell of a creative team working in service of Neil Young's story about a small town named Greendale, and the odd family who live there, the Greens.
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Some thoughts on "Neil Young's Greendale: A Graphic Novel." A Critical Review,
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Art is subjective, you either like it or you don't. Now, I'm not a Neil Young fan. Not because, I have a distaste for his music but because I don't know Neil Young or his music. I know "of" him. I know of him through sparse news clips throughout the years and as a band member in Rick James' early (late 1960's) Motown band. But neither tells me what the man or his music is about.Since this was the case, I decided I needed to familiarize myself, at least, with the concept album before reading the graphic novel. I found an entire concert set that Young and his band Crazy Horse did at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in June 2003. I think it's a great primer for the novel. GREENDALE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, a generational tale about the Green family, a once-prominent family whose ingenuity created an industrial town, "Greendale," in a remote (fictionalized) Californian town. However, all is not what it seems with the Green women. Each woman had a psychic connection with the land and with every generation there was a call to each Green woman to "Be The Rain!" This call, presented to the ingénue, was a prophetic proclamation to address the social-economic needs of her community. Whereas the men in the Green family line seems emasculated and out of touch with current events, the women are single-mindedly ambitious and embrace the moment to challenge the voice that controls their circumstances whether it comes from Pennsylvania Avenue or ethereal. Sun Green is the latest of the Green women who's been initiated into this secret-hereditary society. The issues of this day are the complications of global warming, Alaskan offshore drilling and the invasion of Iraq. It does seem far-fetched that women from this once-wealthy clan can make a difference with global issues such as these. Even one, is beyond the efforts of a single individual, but this is a comic-novel. It is from a concept album from a man who has devoted many years to singing about and contributing to organizations geared toward environmental conservation and peaceful resolutions. What I take from the book is that you have strong women, intelligent women characters who are active members of their community and not just an after-thought to the physiological needs to the male characters. I see a musician and three younger artists collaborating on a project to speak to the readership of graphic novels with the hopes of raising issues for discussion (although the anti-Bush doctrine is about 7 years too late, unfortunately), what I also see is the possibility that more musicians and artists working together to expand their vision and create more concept-album-graphic novel collaborations. All in all, GREENDALE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL is a groundbreaking multi-media genre.
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Magical Realism & Socialism,
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This review is from: Neil Young's Greendale (Hardcover)
Reason for Reading: When I heard that this graphic novel was based on an album I though that was so cool and I suddenly had imaginations of what could come next, the graphic version Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell"? It is an awesome concept. Now I don't like Neil Young as a singer {sorry} and have never heard of this album but was so intrigued with the concept I might as well read it.So here we have the Green Family going back to a great-grandmother living in the town of Greendale, America, population 20 to 25,000. When Sun Green (the main character) was born her twin Luna died in infancy. She is now a 17 year old teen. Her great-aunt Ciela Oaks married both Green brothers, leaving one for the other and eventually one day simply disappeared into the Botanical Gardens forever. Her daughter, Sea Green, also disappeared one day as a teen into the forest never to return. Now Sun is feeling strange, thinking of the past Green women and being followed by a man who obviously represents Satan. Bad things happen. Strange things happen. Sun becomes an activist. An anti-war, anti-meat, anti-hunting, anti-big electricity companies, anti-oil drilling left-wing mouthy irritant. At this point, I know this book is not for me. I quickly started skipping over all the bubbles full of the socialist political ranting, which was a large portion of text. Honestly the whole political part of the book could have been removed and it wouldn't have made any difference to the story as the book really doesn't go anywhere. The two plots, the girl's political coming of age and the mysterious hippie, nature, environmentalist magical element of the Green woman and the fate of the Green women just kind of flop and end abruptly. And so will my review. Weird and so not my kind of story.
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