Sunday Trade: Minx take 4
Jun. 25th, 2008 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutYes, I know its long past Sunday. But I was distracted and sleepy and lazy until now...
kimmie66 written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich, letters by Robert Clark
Burnout written by Rebecca Donner, illustrated by Inaki Miranda, gray tones by Eva de la Cruz, letters by Jared K Fletcher
I missed Ross Campbell's Water Baby. But other reviews have been pretty luke-warm on it, so I've been in no rush...
To start we'll look at kimmie66. A futurist scifi book. Telly Kade is a 23rd century teen. And like most teen's she spends much of her time living in VR worlds. People are supposed to pick one "theme" or Lair and just hang there. For Telly and her friends its a pseudo-WoD setting where they can play at Gothy monster-lite. And Telly is happy with this. She can avoid her creep of a brother and its easier to have friends in the Virtual. Until she gets a suicide note from her friend Kimmie66. A note that leads her from one Lair to another until in search of Kimmie66's "ghost"...
First off, as I mentioned previously, I love Alexovich's art. And the story is another plus. This probably ranks with Confessions of a Blabbermouth and The Re-Gifters as the best of the line. Telly isn't perfect, she's a kid struggling to deal with loss. Good book...
Next we've got Burnout. Teenage Danni and her mom have just moved to a new town. Again. Where Danni's mom gets involved with a local man and the two move in together. Thrusting Danni into sharing a room with her possible future "brother". Brooding hottie Haskell. Finding out that Haskell sneaks out every night, Danni eventually follows him. She learns that he's been engaging in anti-logging activities, spiking trees and the like. Kid wants to be an eco-warrior. And if it'll impress Haskell, so does Danni. The two quickly become a hot & heavy secret couple, while spending their nights on nuisance attacks on the local industry. Of course it all ends in tears and fire...
This one's very teen melodrama. Danni wants to belong to somewhere. Or someone. Or something. Which means she gets drawn into Haskell's drama. I'm still not sure how much I like this one. The art is clean and sharp. And Danni and Haskell seem like teens. Of course teens annoyed me even when I was one. So its a well written book. But if I wasn't trying to check out the entire line as it came out, I don't know how much interest I'd have in the story...
kimmie66 written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich, letters by Robert Clark
Burnout written by Rebecca Donner, illustrated by Inaki Miranda, gray tones by Eva de la Cruz, letters by Jared K Fletcher
I missed Ross Campbell's Water Baby. But other reviews have been pretty luke-warm on it, so I've been in no rush...
To start we'll look at kimmie66. A futurist scifi book. Telly Kade is a 23rd century teen. And like most teen's she spends much of her time living in VR worlds. People are supposed to pick one "theme" or Lair and just hang there. For Telly and her friends its a pseudo-WoD setting where they can play at Gothy monster-lite. And Telly is happy with this. She can avoid her creep of a brother and its easier to have friends in the Virtual. Until she gets a suicide note from her friend Kimmie66. A note that leads her from one Lair to another until in search of Kimmie66's "ghost"...
First off, as I mentioned previously, I love Alexovich's art. And the story is another plus. This probably ranks with Confessions of a Blabbermouth and The Re-Gifters as the best of the line. Telly isn't perfect, she's a kid struggling to deal with loss. Good book...
Next we've got Burnout. Teenage Danni and her mom have just moved to a new town. Again. Where Danni's mom gets involved with a local man and the two move in together. Thrusting Danni into sharing a room with her possible future "brother". Brooding hottie Haskell. Finding out that Haskell sneaks out every night, Danni eventually follows him. She learns that he's been engaging in anti-logging activities, spiking trees and the like. Kid wants to be an eco-warrior. And if it'll impress Haskell, so does Danni. The two quickly become a hot & heavy secret couple, while spending their nights on nuisance attacks on the local industry. Of course it all ends in tears and fire...
This one's very teen melodrama. Danni wants to belong to somewhere. Or someone. Or something. Which means she gets drawn into Haskell's drama. I'm still not sure how much I like this one. The art is clean and sharp. And Danni and Haskell seem like teens. Of course teens annoyed me even when I was one. So its a well written book. But if I wasn't trying to check out the entire line as it came out, I don't know how much interest I'd have in the story...
