Girl-shy, blood-shy and unable to harness his shadowy powers, his twin- mattress- on- the- floor, Mexican soap opera-watching, hot dog-rotating life is bleak. Dave's existence is peppered with the same toil and annoyance as anyone's. In the periphery is a colorfully dull, convenience-store atmosphere of weirdos, degenerates and pretentious goth kids. Through our awkward antihero Dave, a work-a-night convenience store clerk, we meet a cast of archetypal characters: the buddy roommate, the pushy friend, the oppressive boss, the love interest and the villain. The three-way collaboration between writers Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria and illustrator Warren Pleece exposes an undead world not different from that of the living. In visually apropos comic book style, and with its hokey velveteen cloak bowing at underappreciated cult television show “ Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Life Sucks recounts the lives of a smattering of Los Angeles immortals. One gets the feeling that Life Sucks' creators had that notion in mind when executing this vampiric graphic novel.
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Becky may have taken Manhattan-but will she have to return it? Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan "Kinsella's Bloomwood is plucky and funny. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills an ocean away in London. She and Luke will be the toast of Gotham society. Surely it's only a matter of time until Becky becomes an American celebrity. That is, until Luke announces he's moving to New York for business-and he asks Becky to go with him Before you can say "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury department stores. With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwood's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. Apart from Lise's offstage death, there is little violence here like Annemarie, the reader is protected from the full implications of events-but will be caught up in the suspense and menace of several encounters with soldiers and in Annemarie's courageous run as courier on the night of the escape. When the Germans plan to round up the Jews, the Johansens take in Annemarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is their daughter later, they travel to Uncle Hendrik's house on the coast, where the Rosens and other Jews are transported by fishing boat to Sweden. Though ever cautious and fearful of the ubiquitous soldiers, she is largely unaware of the extent of the danger around her the Resistance kept even its participants safer by telling them as little as possible, and Annemarie has never been told that her older sister Lise died in its service. The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction ( Rabble Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction-a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943.įive years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas' Lisa's War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at 10, known three years of Nazi occupation. You could argue he is a bit of a flat character, but he's likable enough.ĭoe-Doe teeters on the line of annoying to interesting. She is so pretty! I wish her and Mu-Yeon could've switched faces. My next favorite character would be Mu-Hwa, the ninja-like sister, who doesn't talk. He is the funniest one in the entire story. He helped speed up the plot by dropping truth bombs and causing Si-Joon to rethink his feelings. If he hadn't been in this manHwa it would have been less enjoyable. level-headed, smart, and a deadpan snarker. There is a strong theme of reincarnation and a mystery dream, that doesn't take long to decipher. The wait to see Mu-Yeon's face might irk you or hold your interest until the end as intended. It was even longer before Si-Joon saw her. I was so impatient to see Mu-Yeon's true face, but the manhwa author drug that reveal to the last possible moment. This manhwa was ridiculously hilarious around the first two chapters and anytime they flash backed to children, but after that the story's momentum dulled to me. Pig Bride has a premise I have never read before. |