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rikki's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
5.0
Like many people my age, baseball is more than just a sport. It's a thing you think about to lose your erection.
This goes back to the 1994 Major League Baseball strike where the greedy owners and the greedy players couldn't agree on whose greediness was most vital to the game, so they cancelled the second half of the 1994 season, and couldn't get their acts together into well into the 1995 season, resulting in two years of rich people getting richer without doing any actual work. The American Dream.
I mention this because terrible things happen surrounding baseball in this collection, which is driven by a character obsessed with the sex lives of baseball players. And while I'm not mad at anyone currently playing in the major leagues (as there are very few players involved in the strike who are still active), it's still tough for me to feel bad for anyone involved in the sport.
This is the volume, however, where you start to feel really bad for some of the characters. It's still a non-stop shifting plot story where something unusual and food related is happening but for the first time in the series, characters short term problems aren't wrapped up neatly by the ends of the issues. There are still stellar final page reveals (and long running jokes) but often they aren't the beginning or end of a problem, rather a reveal as to how something is about to get worse for someone.
This goes back to the 1994 Major League Baseball strike where the greedy owners and the greedy players couldn't agree on whose greediness was most vital to the game, so they cancelled the second half of the 1994 season, and couldn't get their acts together into well into the 1995 season, resulting in two years of rich people getting richer without doing any actual work. The American Dream.
I mention this because terrible things happen surrounding baseball in this collection, which is driven by a character obsessed with the sex lives of baseball players. And while I'm not mad at anyone currently playing in the major leagues (as there are very few players involved in the strike who are still active), it's still tough for me to feel bad for anyone involved in the sport.
This is the volume, however, where you start to feel really bad for some of the characters. It's still a non-stop shifting plot story where something unusual and food related is happening but for the first time in the series, characters short term problems aren't wrapped up neatly by the ends of the issues. There are still stellar final page reveals (and long running jokes) but often they aren't the beginning or end of a problem, rather a reveal as to how something is about to get worse for someone.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
3.0
This was ... good, interesting, inventive ... gross, annoying and kind of stupid. There is not a lot of sense in this. But it continues to have possibilities. I wish it would stop with the poorly run government agency with hateful rotten bosses. This is still better than it should be but not exactly good.
androthemeda's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
The text in the background is just as good as the dialogue and it’s not afraid to go over the top.
segza's review against another edition
4.0
This series gets better with every volume. I'm loving the jokes in the illustrations' backgrounds too - the love shrine to Kirkman in Olive's room was A+
toystory242's review against another edition
3.0
So I've been reading some graphic novels because I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ANYTHING ELSE AT THE MOMENT!!! This series is super creative and since there's only 10 volumes I think I have a real chance of actually finishing them all lol.
This volume, while still awesomely creative and weird, just didn't vibe with me as much as some of the others. I just didn't like the storyline as much. Though I did love that we saw Olive and Amelia a lot more! I think the last issue in this volume was definitely my favorite.
This volume, while still awesomely creative and weird, just didn't vibe with me as much as some of the others. I just didn't like the storyline as much. Though I did love that we saw Olive and Amelia a lot more! I think the last issue in this volume was definitely my favorite.