A review by tricky
Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits Volume 1 by Jen Van Meter
3.0
I picked this book up at a book fair and had no background to the characters or the story. I was pleasantly surprised as this is a really engaging family. Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage are a couple of punk rockers who have four children, Rat, Arsenal, Twitch and Zero. The stories are primarily told through Zero who is your typical teenager, all gung-ho emotion and thus erratic. The dialogue is quite humorous and the stories rocket along.
There are several artists involved in the series and you do get different interpretations of the characters. This can be a bit confusing as sometimes Nikki and Arsenal are so similar by a couple of the artists that you are not sure who is who. It is a minor quibble in what I thought was a really good series.
There are several artists involved in the series and you do get different interpretations of the characters. This can be a bit confusing as sometimes Nikki and Arsenal are so similar by a couple of the artists that you are not sure who is who. It is a minor quibble in what I thought was a really good series.