Synopsis
Alex Cox presents a story that can only be set in Loserville. Deke and Jenna are a happily married couple working their way through life until something unexpected changes their lives. Deke has ambitions, he wants to be either a novelist, or screenwriter, or artist, or professional wrestler. He can't decide which, all he knows is he doesn't like working at an insurance company. Jenna, on the other hand, is a workaholic. While Deke is not sure what it is that Jenna does, he does know that she complains about it - a lot. Jenna also complains about having hot feet and that she might have the worst disease in the world: Multiple Sploderorsis. A disease that dooms you to a life of crippling pain... and then you might explode! Not very many people have it, because they all explode. Now Deke and Jenna are faced with the challenges of knowing that she might explode at any minute. Because sometimes that's just the way these stories go.
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Jenna and her husband, Deke, live up to the title of this silly but provocative tale. Facing such a panorama of plot oddities as Deke’s desire to dress like clowns while they make love, Jenna being diagnosed with a disease that can lead to corporeal explosion, and hallucinations that involve an ice-cream delivery van, we are sucked into a vortex of uneasiness. One of the most successful features of the fast-paced story is its riff on reality talk shows. Cox’s art suits both his characters and their shenanigans, foils, and surroundings: the simple, black-and-white cartooning pops with expressive actions and scenery that advance both the plot and the immediate depictions of each predicament. When Ice Cream Larry instructs Jenna on what being In the Between entails, Cox strikes a note of brilliance, illustrating in tightly woven words and images how multiple realities can and do coexist. Readers who remember Shannon Wheeler’s satirical superhero, Too Much Coffee Man, will appreciate the antics on display here. --Francisca Goldsmith
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Loserville 1: And Then You Might Explode
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # mon0000011871