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Subway Series

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I picked up this book at a local comic book story, based souly on the cover, and back, which happened to be a refreshing style faced against all the superhero and babe-boobage, in which the store's customers manifest themselves. I went in looking for Daniel Clows and possibly Harvey Pekar. Neither were found, but this, this was a nice book to fall back on.

The presence of a Daniel clows influence is very prominent throughout the entire novel. The character of Tina is extremely reminiscent of Ghost World's Enid, though, a more commericalized and somehow realistic version. Tina's "friends" also inhabit the Clowes spirit, in bitchiness, and realism. The only problem is that it feels like Leela Corman is trying to hard to make her characters something they are not. Though, I will say, the Halloween party section is quite genius.

A major turning point in my mind was when it was revealed that these characters are in high school. A lot of the material that these people are going through is highly disturbing. I honestly don't know if this was the author's intention. It seems to remind me of Larry Clark's "Kids." Especially in one of Tina's episodes in which she has sex just to get through with it already. All of this, combined with the fact that the book could use a proper ending (which would be forgivable if it were certain there is going to be another instalment), it is hard to say whether I really like Corman's "Subway Series." It was, however, a blast to read, and get into the underground mindset of a witty comic once more.

This book, to me, is very interesting because it's a graphic novel that some girls can relate to. I mean like they have a bad life. I didn't expect anything like it. I opened it thinking it was just a regular comic book, but it wasn't. It's good for older teens to read because, to me, it tells you about the dangers of teenage life. For example, having low self esteem, drinking and having sex. It shows people what girls these days would do to feel happy about themselves. I think it's really bad to think that way about yourself. It's not good to have anyone under 14 reading it, even though it has a lot of bad content and is not good for anyone in my opinion. But I would not recommend it for other young teen girls to read, but for older teens from about 17 and up, because they would probably understand what is going on.