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9+ Works 331 Membros 13 Críticas

Obras por Ben Passmore

Associated Works

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2019 (2019) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Speculative Relationships, Volume 2 (2015) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1983
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
Locais de residência
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Críticas

Biting, laugh-out-loud funny, infuriating. Even as the action spins out into ever greater absurdity, all the direct human interactions feel consistently plausible.
 
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localgayangel | 2 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
Still goes hard; still both very funny and genuinely affecting.
 
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localgayangel | 6 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
How about that cover, huh? “Your Black Friend and other Strangers” is a series of comic shorts that center around race as depicted through the trippy lens of a 21st-Century punk. One comic takes place in a coffee shop, as a black friend observes the interaction of a an oblivious customer and a barista. Another story follows two black punks who are harassed by a nasty cop until the tables are gruesomely turned.

I loved this odd little collection. There were frequent spelling and grammar errors (some that were clearly on purpose and others that were clearly not) but the art and the commentary made it worth ignoring.… (mais)
 
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MC_Rolon | 6 outras críticas | Jun 15, 2022 |
I did not get this at all. The actual book has no summary on it, so I went in totally blind, expecting some kind of satire of our worship of athletes. Instead, I got a jumbled mess about race (maybe?).

The Super Bowl leads to riots, which leads to different armed factions fighting for control of the city, which leads to a faction recreating the same Super Bowl in the field, but with more murder.

There's clearly some kind of racial political aspect to it - the main characters are black, talking about protests and anarchy, and the white couple is clearly ridiculous. But nothing makes sense or, really, even goes anywhere.

I did like the monochromatic orange palette, and the weird announcers.
… (mais)
 
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Elna_McIntosh | 2 outras críticas | Sep 29, 2021 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
9
Also by
4
Membros
331
Popularidade
#71,753
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
13
ISBN
9

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