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"People here all seem like they don't want anything, and most of the time when you're next to them it feels like everything is ok, when actually you're half dead already."
I happened to check out multiple graphic novels about death and the afterlife (weird, since I prefer the kind where nothing happens, Clowes-style). This one is very short so it was strange that it had chapters; it would have been fine without the demarcation. I would have been happy to read a longer version of this, you could really make a whole book out of an overcrowded afterlife where almost everyone you know commits suicide and you can look forward to/dread running into them on the street an...
The first half seems like it's gearing up for something fairly good, if a bit typical. But the second half of the book is just phoned in.I don't mind the illustrations, and the beginning was all right (minus the Kurt Cobain cameo, ugh), but the second half just falls flat. Instead of the actual dialogue presented in the first half, Mordy narrates the story with a flat voice, accelerating through the increasingly ridiculous and boring plot. By the end you don't care for any of the characters, and...
What happens after you die? In this graphic novel, there’s a special place for those who have offed themselves— just like life but slightly worse. A self important rock star named Kurt has a cameo; but “there’s this thing after you off yourself—you could give a shit about somebody singing about how unhappy they are.”Good premise and well done. The idea that suicide does nothing more than take you to another world, very similar but slightly worse, is appealing. Also manages some dark humour. Plus...
I wanted this to be better. Not better in the way that one hopes the movie they are about to view is as good as the book (that rarely happens), and one is disappointed because the only similarity between the two is the title. Hence, one wishes the movie were better. Rather, this better, more resembles the matter of Gustation vs. Olfaction. Like walking into a restaurant and being attacked with amorous suggestions by the wafting aromas that surround you, only to order, and find that the scents we...
Etgar Keret, Pizzeria Kamikaze (Alternative Comics, 2006)I'd had this sitting on my list of “stuff I want to get out of the library eventually” for years before I watched Wristcutters: A Love Story. I had somehow never made the connection between the controversial film and this book (which, if I recall correctly, I first heard about through Bookslut long before the movie's release). After seeing the book mentioned in the opening credits, however, I bumped it up to the top of the priority list. A...
I picked this up after finding out that this book inspired the movie, 'Wristcutters: A Love Story'. I think the main problem with this book is that the movie was better in every way. Better ending, better characters even the pacing was better in the movie. Though the plot is still interesting in the book, it didn't grab my attention as much as the film did. I think fans of the movie should give this a try, its just unfortunate because this book had so much potential yet it never hit a high mark....
The art's cool, yeah. But this is a story about how a depressed 20-something commits suicide and ends up in a grey world where everyone has committed suicide and they're really feeling rather blah about it as they go about essentially recreating their earlier lives. Then our main character briefly finds something to care about until he gets it, at which point he goes back to feeling rather blah.And that's... fine, you know, a clever little bit of nihilism. But I'm not a fucking teenager.
It's interesting to note the differences (and similarities in this book - an adaptation of Kneller's Happy Campers and the film, Wristcutters: A Love Story, also an adaptation of Kneller's Happy Campers (and one of my favorite movies)Which should you delve into first? I don't give a hell. But I'd be interested to know what you think.
I liked this, about as much as you can like a story about a purgatory-like afterworld full of suicide victims. The story gets a bit dry at times, and as I understand this may be the artist's longest work, so I can still appreciate the effort in that. The art is nice, the story is quick (and sometimes very brutal). I'd give his other works a shot.
