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Comic and Graphic Books.
Fiction.
Literature.
Rarely does a new talent arrive in the medium as unmistakably distinct as Rumi Hara. With immersive art and a clear-eyed storytelling rhythm, her uncategorizable debut, Nori, put her playful cartooning on display. Her new collection, The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories, delights with equal mischievousness. The Peanutbutter Sisters is a glorious balance of contradictions, at once escapism and realism, science fiction and slice of life. Two students explore the urban landscape while following Newton Creek, the polluted Queens-Brooklyn border. As they do, they plan a traditional Japanese play with contemporary pop culture. Another story features an intergalactic race of all living things set in the year 2099 and is a dazzling treatise on the environment and journalism. Yet sometimes the fantastical collides with the quotidian in the same story. A man struggling with vertigo during quarantine encounters a world of sexual revelry whenever he has a dizzy spell. The Peanut Butter sisters ride a hurricane into New York City and yet aren't able to hitch a ride back with a whale due to a heavily polluted ocean. Hara's magical realist tendencies and diverse cast of characters all contort the tropes of the American comics canon. Yet above all else, her innate control of the comics languageâ??her ability to weave the absurd with the real on such a charming and commanding levelâ??is refreshingly unri… (altro)
A short story collection of sheer nonsense and other flights of fancy.
Tree Love ~ ✰✰ ~
Two people with trees growing from their heads kiss and mingle their branches. That's it.
The Peanutbutter Sisters ~ ✰✰ ~
The three Peanutbutter sisters scavenge items from the dump on New Mississippi Island off the coast of Georgia to sell on eBay. One day they take a vacation by gliding on the winds to New York City, but when their return whale falls through, they have to hitchhike. Very minor adventures are had along the way.
The sisters, whose ages are ambiguous, also appear in two-page spreads throughout the book where they randomly expose their nether regions and have a graphic bowel movement. So there's that.
Walking With Tammy Tabata ~ ✰✰✰ ~
Steve walks with Tammy as they plan a Noh play for an extra credit project at school. They actually do a good job of tying their theme to a body of water called Newtown Creek that runs between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. It's just two people walking and talking, but it was my favorite story in the book.
Living Things ~ ✰✰ ~
A reporter in the year 2099 is embedded in an off-road race between strange creatures and their odd motorized vehicles. Think "Wacky Races" gone wrong.
Bubblegum Fighters ~ ✰✰ ~
Two girls duel with their bubble gum bubbles. Pointless.
Verti-go-go ~ ✰✰✰ ~
Brian Tran faints whenever he sees an exposed belly button and immediately has highly sexual dreams, usually involving orgies. He's torn between treating the condition or just rolling with it. It's amusing to think what I might decide if I were in his shoes.
Bombadonna ~ ✰✰ ~
Wherever the Bomb Queen points, her minions -- naked women with bombs for heads -- run and explode. It's terrorism but also a good thing? Huh? No.
Comic and Graphic Books.
Fiction.
Literature.
Rarely does a new talent arrive in the medium as unmistakably distinct as Rumi Hara. With immersive art and a clear-eyed storytelling rhythm, her uncategorizable debut, Nori, put her playful cartooning on display. Her new collection, The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories, delights with equal mischievousness. The Peanutbutter Sisters is a glorious balance of contradictions, at once escapism and realism, science fiction and slice of life. Two students explore the urban landscape while following Newton Creek, the polluted Queens-Brooklyn border. As they do, they plan a traditional Japanese play with contemporary pop culture. Another story features an intergalactic race of all living things set in the year 2099 and is a dazzling treatise on the environment and journalism. Yet sometimes the fantastical collides with the quotidian in the same story. A man struggling with vertigo during quarantine encounters a world of sexual revelry whenever he has a dizzy spell. The Peanut Butter sisters ride a hurricane into New York City and yet aren't able to hitch a ride back with a whale due to a heavily polluted ocean. Hara's magical realist tendencies and diverse cast of characters all contort the tropes of the American comics canon. Yet above all else, her innate control of the comics languageâ??her ability to weave the absurd with the real on such a charming and commanding levelâ??is refreshingly unri
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Tree Love ~ ✰✰ ~
Two people with trees growing from their heads kiss and mingle their branches. That's it.
The Peanutbutter Sisters ~ ✰✰ ~
The three Peanutbutter sisters scavenge items from the dump on New Mississippi Island off the coast of Georgia to sell on eBay. One day they take a vacation by gliding on the winds to New York City, but when their return whale falls through, they have to hitchhike. Very minor adventures are had along the way.
The sisters, whose ages are ambiguous, also appear in two-page spreads throughout the book where they randomly expose their nether regions and have a graphic bowel movement. So there's that.
Walking With Tammy Tabata ~ ✰✰✰ ~
Steve walks with Tammy as they plan a Noh play for an extra credit project at school. They actually do a good job of tying their theme to a body of water called Newtown Creek that runs between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. It's just two people walking and talking, but it was my favorite story in the book.
Living Things ~ ✰✰ ~
A reporter in the year 2099 is embedded in an off-road race between strange creatures and their odd motorized vehicles. Think "Wacky Races" gone wrong.
Bubblegum Fighters ~ ✰✰ ~
Two girls duel with their bubble gum bubbles. Pointless.
Verti-go-go ~ ✰✰✰ ~
Brian Tran faints whenever he sees an exposed belly button and immediately has highly sexual dreams, usually involving orgies. He's torn between treating the condition or just rolling with it. It's amusing to think what I might decide if I were in his shoes.
Bombadonna ~ ✰✰ ~
Wherever the Bomb Queen points, her minions -- naked women with bombs for heads -- run and explode. It's terrorism but also a good thing? Huh? No.
Side note: With this book, I complete my project of reading all the books on the Publishers Weekly 2022 Graphic Novel Critics Poll. It also made the list for NPR's Books We Love 2022: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels, but I still have one more book to read before I finish that list.
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Contents: Tree Love -- The Peanutbutter Sisters -- Walking With Tammy Tabata -- Living Things -- Bubblegum Fighters -- Verti-go-go -- Bombadonna (