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...tells of a young writer who begins neglecting his girlfriend for the sake of an even younger fan. In the titular tale, a lonely nerd fixates on a card shop girl who cheats on her boyfriend. Lastly, "Bomb Scare" gets right to the heart of being socially irrelevent in high-school. Each story reveals the secret life of the sad and alienated. If anything, the book can be criticized for a kind of thematic stasis. Each story feels like different versions of the same thing. But for some, that thing is their life...
...child or adult you have never read a comic or even any kind of book like "Marmalade Boy." It will be new to you not because it stars a spindly, ordinary, modern-day 16-year-old high-school girl, or because the story involves no adventures more outrageous than light, comedic romance (both of which are sadly unusual in American comicbooks, but not unheard of.) The novelty comes from reading it "backwards." The L.A.-based Tokyopop has begun publishing a whole series of pocket-sized paperbacks that reprint Japanese comicbooks, called "manga," the way they originally appeared, reading right...
...months the Cleveland-based artist J. Backderf, who signs his work "Derf," has released two outstanding examples of the latter. "Trashed" (Slave Labor Graphics; 48pp.; $6.95) recounts his days as a college-drop-out garbage man. "My Friend Dahmer" (Derfcity Comics; 24pp.; $2.95) tells of Backderf's remarkable high-school relationship with notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The funniest book of the year so far, followed by the creepiest, and it's all true...
...suffered the worst of high-school horrors. Crowley assails Kit with everything he can think up: a criminal passion for someone too close for comfort, a teenage pregnancy, an attempted suicide by slitting of the wrists. This is hyperbole taking itself seriously: Kit is almost a parody of a modern romantic, too contrived, too much of an idea to become real...
Crowley excuses the mediocrity of Kit’s poems by making them the product of a high-school student, and of Falin’s by presenting them only in translations—which are, we understand, far inferior to the rhymed, rhythmic originals. But if the reader is to share the semi-religious experiences of Kit and Falin, the poetry in question must be more than mere scaffolding to advance the author’s themes...