Kill my Mother : : a Graphic Novel

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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Feiffer, Jules, Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Mystery / Feiffer, Jules
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Feiffer, Jules	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Mystery / Feiffer, Jules	4-week checkout	On Shelf

When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street.

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Impenetrable. submitted by eknapp on October 14, 2016, 9:08am A sociopathic teenage girl wants to kill her mother for having the gall to get a job after her father died. A blonde woman hires a private investigator to find and kill another blonde woman. Some other blonde women are homeless, and mute, and do some acting, and work for the aforementioned PI, but I don't know who they are or even how many because they all look alike.

I threw in the towel 73 pages in when I picked the book up and realized I had no idea who I was looking at or what was going on.

On a picture by picture basis, I quite like the art. It's all strong black lines with brown or blue or gray tinting, unusual and interesting. But it's too chaotic and abstract to be sequential; too often you only get a vague impression of what's transpiring in a given panel, and the people--aside from being hard to differentiate--look inhumanly loose of limb, like marionettes.

Charming, but confusing submitted by josephwb on August 15, 2017, 9:51am I agree with the previous review. The book is charmingly illustrated, with a very satisfying noir feel. However, as mentioned in the other review, many of the characters are so similar looking that it is often unclear who is in the scene. I did make it to the end, and things do seem to (mostly) sort themselves out, but it was not a very enjoyable read given how confusing it was.