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A review by nmcannon
T-Rex Trying and Trying: The Unfortunate Trials of a Modern Prehistoric Family by Hugh Murphy
3.0
My partner and I picked up and read this whole comic while shopping at Target! It's that itty bitty.
The book consists of short, one-page comics about a T-Rex trying to do an everyday task, but failing. The T-Rex is foiled by being huge, having tiny arms, a large nose, or by another inconvenient body part. At first it was funny, but then the "lol short arms" joke repeated enough to be annoying, and finally the ending of the book made me feel sad.
Maybe I'm taking this small humor book too seriously, but it reminded me of disabled struggles and how the myth of modern life has simply not been built to accommodate disabled folks. Like the dinosaurs, disabled people sometimes force themselves to perform tasks the same way non-disabled people do, in a quest to be "normal," even when there are different ways to perform the tasks that will aggravate less.
Since perhaps I'm reading too much into a short comic about dinosaurs, I'm still awarding T-Rex Trying and Trying three stars. This is a book for odd, idle moments and is sure to elicit at least one giggle.
The book consists of short, one-page comics about a T-Rex trying to do an everyday task, but failing. The T-Rex is foiled by being huge, having tiny arms, a large nose, or by another inconvenient body part. At first it was funny, but then the "lol short arms" joke repeated enough to be annoying, and finally the ending of the book made me feel sad.
Maybe I'm taking this small humor book too seriously, but it reminded me of disabled struggles and how the myth of modern life has simply not been built to accommodate disabled folks. Like the dinosaurs, disabled people sometimes force themselves to perform tasks the same way non-disabled people do, in a quest to be "normal," even when there are different ways to perform the tasks that will aggravate less.
Since perhaps I'm reading too much into a short comic about dinosaurs, I'm still awarding T-Rex Trying and Trying three stars. This is a book for odd, idle moments and is sure to elicit at least one giggle.