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Though the tracks are glossy, and expertly tweaked, Cage sometimes sounds uncomfortable over their finished perfection. On “Too Heavy For Cherubs,” while recalling an abusive childhood, he sounds like he’s restraining himself from exploding out of the lazy Blockhead beat; you can almost hear him chomping on the bit shoved in his mouth. “Movies for the Blind” had a low-fi feel that his rabid delivery finds easier to inhabit...
While they say you can never go home again, the urge to revisit the personal past remains one the most popular forms of narrative art. Novels such as Henry Roth's Call It Sleep and movies such as Francois Truffaut's 400 Blows have taken thinly-veiled childhood autobiography and transformed them into masterpieces of their form. But since graphic novels have gotten such a late start in finding a serious-minded audience, the coming-of-age story has only recently gotten enough work to even be called a sub-genre. Two years ago Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets...
...winter or talking with co-workers, Pekar's stories were driven by his intensely cranky, neurotic, highly-intelligent and, above all, hilarious personality. But the one thing Pekar never explored, until now, was how he got that way. The Quitter takes Harvey back to his childhood with the candor and unsentimentally that we have come to expect from his regular series...
...ultimately self-defeating behaviors also manifest themselves. His drive to excel at everything eventually makes Pekar so deeply fearful of failure that he quits anything that challenges him: school sports, the navy and college. Among other things, The Quitter becomes a devastatingly sharp psychological portrait of how early adaptive childhood behaviors can eventually turn against...
...Favorite childhood toy: I had a little stuffed puppy named Coco that I used to carry with me everywhere...