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Blindspot

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In Blindspot Kevin Pyle has captured the heart and inner voice of adolescent boys in a form that is completely accessable to them. This beautifully executed graphic novel is deceptively simple. The world of play for a young boy and his friends becomes a learning platform for the complex lessons of life they will soon confront.
The lessons they learn and the decisions they make are powerful and important, but they are presented in a way that is never heavy handed or patronizing.
There is a great deal of research out now about the difficult adolescence of boys. This novel captures the challenges that are part of this fragile age in ways that will resonate very well with the subjects of this research.

This is a very well written graphic novel that is also beautifully drawn. I related to it a lot, and I think many other people will, too. I think it captures many of the good, bad, confusing, and enlightening feelings that come along for most people during the transition between childhood and adolescence. And it's very entertaining, too.

This story is told through a series of short (1-5 pages) vignettes. The story itself - once you've put it together - is fairly solid, but there is a disjointed feel between each of the abruptly-ending vignettes. That really jolted me, and made it difficult to lose myself in Dean's world.

The story holds a lot of promise, but the execution ultimately left me a bit aloof. I can appreciate the idea of the story, but had a hard time caring about the characters. Not a bad read - there's lots of bad indie graphic novels out there - but not a great one either.

Kevin C. Pyle's graphic novel - "Blindspot" is a simple told tale in graphic novel format of boys in the waning days of their adolescence soon to transition to their teenage years. While the story itself if rather unremarkable and oftentimes muddled in articulating the passage of time, Pyle's artwork is interesting to look at particularly if you are a fan of 1950'esque WW2 comic book art (ala, 'Sgt. Rock'). Another minor grievance is the character design of the boys that make them look like college-aged students when they are actually grade schoolers. Still, there is a leisurely, homespun charm to this book that makes it worth your while for a quick (20 minutes) and easy read.

This book is a bout a young man and his friends. They play army in the woods near their home. They have a hard time living in the real world. One day they come across a homeless man and it makes them think about real life issues.

There are a few scenes in the comic that I felt should have been left out. The boys stumble on the homeless man's belongings and in it they find adult magazines. It shows the boys sneaking around to take a peek at them.