author: Jessica Fink
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2013/06/24
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
A woman gets a time machine and tries to correct the mistakes her younger selves have made in the graphic novel by Jess Fink. Mistakes include awkward sexual encounters and job gaffes. As she attempts to correct the past, she keeps going further and further back as her past selves seem intent on making the same mistakes. Will she ever learn, or is there a greater truth to be had? Perhaps the mistakes we've made make us who we are. Or perhaps obsessing over them hides something better that we should remember.
Of course, the preceding paragraph makes this sound like a serious and introspective work, and doesn't include the fart jokes, the juvenile humor or the scene of making out with your past self (a gross idea to me, but to each their own, I suppose). It's all done in a self-deprecating style that shows how insecure and awkward we have all been, and how we over-obsess about the exact wrong things.
The art style is more like an online comic, quick lines and fun with action and words reaching beyond the panel borders. The content is not for everyone as it falls on the crass and crude side, but that time travel jumpsuit is pretty awesome.
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