2010 Reading #61: Life Sucks by Abel, Soria, and Pleece
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61. Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece. I'm tempted to shorthand this as Clerks meets Fright Night or something, with a black humor edge reminiscent of Lair of the White Worm; but that feels unfair and reductive. It's a quirky graphic novel about a wage slave vampire working the night shift at a convenience store. It's funny but it's not a comedy, it's got some horrific stuff but it's not horror; in fact one of the things that I like best about it is its near-complete disregard of genre expectations. What works least well about it is its slacker protagonist, who is difficult to engage with or care about much. Partly that's the point, of course, to challenge him to change, but I found myself more interested in the minor characters and the world-building than in the main character, and I think that's a problem.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
61. Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece. I'm tempted to shorthand this as Clerks meets Fright Night or something, with a black humor edge reminiscent of Lair of the White Worm; but that feels unfair and reductive. It's a quirky graphic novel about a wage slave vampire working the night shift at a convenience store. It's funny but it's not a comedy, it's got some horrific stuff but it's not horror; in fact one of the things that I like best about it is its near-complete disregard of genre expectations. What works least well about it is its slacker protagonist, who is difficult to engage with or care about much. Partly that's the point, of course, to challenge him to change, but I found myself more interested in the minor characters and the world-building than in the main character, and I think that's a problem.