Bumperhead by Gilbert Hernandez: Bildungs-roman

This is an interesting coming of age story about a kid who doesn't seem happy until everything falls in around him. 

It's told in multipe parts -- boyhood, youth, early adulthood, and then later adulthood.
One thing gets me though, that threw me off and lessened my enjoyment. There is a character that we meet in the first part who has an iPad. They're kids so it seems like present day. Then it jumps to the same characters, and they're older, but it's like the early 70s. The kid still has the iPad. That was jarring. If I was more academic I might try to make something of it, but as a lay reader, it didn't work.


http://www.amazon.com/Bumperhead-Gilbert-Hernandez/dp/1770461655/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413327170&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=bumberhead

The Star Wars: Based on the original rough draft screenplay by George Lucas

I'm a fan of the series, but not a fan fan. That means it has been a while since I've seen the movie. It also means that my memory of it is sketchy. So when I was reading this, I was trying to match it up in my head with the movie, and then things kept getting further apart.

So here's the thing. It is a fun space-opera thing that has some similarities to a famous movie. It can be enjoyed as a stand-alone book. Or at least that was when I started enjoying it, right around the time I saw Han for the first time and just had to accept that some things were different.

It's worth a read.


http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-JW-Rinzler/dp/1616554258/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413326939&sr=1-1&keywords=the+starwars

Last Days of an Immortal: Haiku Review

The art's a little
but don't let that detract from
the story told here



http://www.amazon.com/Last-Days-Immortal-Fabien-Vehlmann/dp/1936393441/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413326775&sr=1-1&keywords=Last+Days+of+an+Immortal