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...irrepressible humor... There may be more important writers around, but none is more likable, or more dependably entertaining and rewarding, than Russo." PW agrees. "Russo's sterling reputation is largely due to his astounding ability to present the tangled emotions of troubled parent-child and marital relationships with comic verve, bracing clarity and dramatic tension fused with an undercurrent of pathos. These predicaments are well represented in the seven stories of his first collection...Russo's rueful understanding of the twisted skein of human relationships is as sharp as ever, and the dialogue throughout is barbed, pointed and wryly humorous...
...matches the urgency and tone of the book. Boxy, flat characters with both eyes on the sides of their head inhabit environs with only the barest of detail. The cartoons function strictly as a way to efficiently set the place and action. As a result the fifty-pages-long comic in the middle of the book makes much of the prose chapters redundant. It does seem like the speediness of this book's appearance comes at the price of cohesiveness...
...Road to America" (Drawn and Quarterly; 56pp.; $14.95), a graphic novella by the French artist known as Baru (né Hervé Baruléa) hopes to make a worldwide impact this June when it gets simultaneously published in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. A sports comic with themes of race and identity, set at a time reminiscent to current events, "Road to America" goes for the knockout, but wins instead by decision...
...atmosphere. Gorgeously printed in full color on large, nearly nine by twelve, heavy, off-white paper, it looks fantastic. Layers of translucent watercolor seem to have soaked into the paper, achieving one of the most varied and spectacular of palates I've seen in a comicbook. Typical of European comic-making Baru puts his stylized characters into carefully-detailed, realistic settings. While its setting becomes nostalgic, its sense of danger does not. Filled with paranoia, prejudice and terrorism, the time and place have a particular resonance...
...UNPOPULAR COMIC IS RE-ENERGIZED IN 1975 WITH THE WILD WOLVERINE...