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Cole's challenge: a comic book where the many characters of a large cast are almost indistinguishable from each other, and a plot that centers around a summer in dullsville. With her great ear and eye for telling details of ennui, Cole succeeds too well. Readers will finish this book feeling relieved at having escaped from the claustrophobia of Cole's universe. The artwork is as spare as the plot; every character appears to be wearing the same radiation suit, mittens and hood (the guide to the cast on the inside front cover is indispensable). We follow Allison as she drifts through her summer, spending her days working at the comic book shop and nights at a random house or bar. In the strongest plot line, her boyfriend, Asher, leaves town and then reveals he's decided not to return for the rest of the summer. Cole ably captures the misery of scattered late-night phone calls and occasional e-mails, as well as the sympathy of Allison's equally aimless and confused friends. The lack of passion, verve and indeed any sense of urgency in their lives is oppressively present in every page.
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From Booklist
Cole's characters are lozenges with legs and shields for faces; the boys are the taller ones with sketchy whiskers. Cole tells the everyday story of Allison during a season of cascading disappointments. She wakes with a huge sore on her lip, so her boyfriend, Asher, doesn't kiss her before he goes away for two weeks. Later, he calls to tell her his two weeks are changing into the whole summer in Australia. When he finally calls from Down Under, he fesses up that he's reconsidering his former girlfriend. Meanwhile, the comics shop where Allison works closes, a guy she starts getting interested in becomes evasive, and some of her girlfriends are breaking up with their men. At least, she finally cuts the cord to Asher, and the mix tape she was making for him opens a dance-club DJ gig for her. Cole's minimalist drawing and subdued coloring paradoxically point up the strong emotions that regularly swirl to the surface of her absorbing, realistic narrative. Ray Olson
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Cole's challenge: a comic book where the many characters of a large cast are almost indistinguishable from each other, and a plot that centers around a summer in dullsville. With her great ear and eye for telling details of ennui, Cole succeeds too well. Readers will finish this book feeling relieved at having escaped from the claustrophobia of Cole's universe. The artwork is as spare as the plot; every character appears to be wearing the same radiation suit, mittens and hood (the guide to the cast on the inside front cover is indispensable). We follow Allison as she drifts through her summer, spending her days working at the comic book shop and nights at a random house or bar. In the strongest plot line, her boyfriend, Asher, leaves town and then reveals he's decided not to return for the rest of the summer. Cole ably captures the misery of scattered late-night phone calls and occasional e-mails, as well as the sympathy of Allison's equally aimless and confused friends. The lack of passion, verve and indeed any sense of urgency in their lives is oppressively present in every page.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Cole's characters are lozenges with legs and shields for faces; the boys are the taller ones with sketchy whiskers. Cole tells the everyday story of Allison during a season of cascading disappointments. She wakes with a huge sore on her lip, so her boyfriend, Asher, doesn't kiss her before he goes away for two weeks. Later, he calls to tell her his two weeks are changing into the whole summer in Australia. When he finally calls from Down Under, he fesses up that he's reconsidering his former girlfriend. Meanwhile, the comics shop where Allison works closes, a guy she starts getting interested in becomes evasive, and some of her girlfriends are breaking up with their men. At least, she finally cuts the cord to Asher, and the mix tape she was making for him opens a dance-club DJ gig for her. Cole's minimalist drawing and subdued coloring paradoxically point up the strong emotions that regularly swirl to the surface of her absorbing, realistic narrative. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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