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...teenage life that Leela Corman depicts in "Subway Series" has less in common with the world of Archie and Veronica and more in common with the movie "Kids." Adults would be appalled at the amount of sex, drugs and danger these characters indulge in. But teenagers would recognize it as totally accurate...
...Shading has been minimized in favor of flat gray tones that emphasize blocky shapes on the page. Curiously, until the end little that could be identified as New York appears. Finally, coiled up with tension, Tina gets into her jogging shorts for a cathartic run in the New York subway system...
Leela Corman's "Subway Series" (Alternative Comics; 144pp.; $9.95) follows her 1999 self-published debut, "Queen's Day." Where her first book collected short, enigmatic tales of women lost in far-away places, "Subway Series" has Corman carrying a similar theme to novel length. Though still lost, her characters have a more concrete location: New York City. "Subway Series" tells of the particular frustrations and confusions that come with being an urban teenage girl...
...Subway Series" follows several months in the life of Tina, a New York high school student. She goes to the Met, reads alty comix and feels sentimental about the decaying buildings of her city. She occasionally sees James, a pig-nosed college-age jerk who pressures her for sex. Meanwhile she has started to develop an increasingly romantic relationship with Evan, a schoolmate she takes guitar lessons from, although he has a girlfreind. With this triangle driving the story Leela Corman creates a portrait of the overly-adult lives of New York's middle-class teenagers...
...Tina goes jogging in Leela Corman's "Subway Series...