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A fun, dramatic story about an angsty teen navigating high school and relationships while dealing with the complications that come with having famous punk rock parents. Loved the black and white illustrations.
the story is a bit much, but honestly, this was really fun to read and i love this family a whole lot.
Loved it!Kinda wish I grew up with once-famous punk rocker parents. This graphic novel is well written, has great art perspectives and makes you feel like you're along for the ride to rescue the parents from a Starbucks swiggin', money hungry, ne'er-do-well, sell-out idiot. Great for angry grown ups like me.
I expected more, but it was a cute story and a creative idea.
A soddin' great satire of families and counterculture.
I had a hard time getting this book from Abby - and when I did - I saw why. Who wouldn't want to have punksters as parents? I'm going to read the whole series now. i also like who they got Rat back and I loved having some of the earlier comix in the back.
For some reasons, I had somewhat high expectations for this book. It made absolutely no sense and I couldn’t get attached to any of the characters because I barely understood what was going on. This is one of the worst comics I’ve read.
I would have loved this in high school. The style of writing reminds me of the novella I wrote during computer class in high school. Which is not a bad thing. But not what I am into now.
Ever wondered what the kids of British punkers are like? Take a look at the Hopeless-Savage family and enjoy the ride. Lots of fun made-up words. I could just hear them with that unmistakable accent.
I’m not punk, which is presumably why I didn’t get much outta this.
I have been on a streak of great comics, so it was sad to have such a bad experience here. The volume had a lot of abrupt transitions, characters that felt like cookie cutter stereotypes, and poor pacing. I did not like it at all. I am sad that I bought the second volume already before reading this one.
This book is great fun. It's violent, but in a cartoonish way. It's vulgar, with almost all the profanity being nonsense words (and British profanity, which is like nonsense anyway). The story is ridiculous, but you can't stop reading to see where it goes next. It's got a classic punk attitude that always remembers not to take itself too seriously. The main protagonist's name is Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage. Jen Van Meter and Christine Norrie clearly had a lot of fun making the comic, and it shows...
this portrait of a punk family has a little too-ridiculous plot with a little too-extraordinary characters. while i appreciate the film intertitles and frequent flashbacks, it's a little too...comic...to hold my interest.
The concept of this book is really solid -- a family dramedy about the children of 70s punk icons -- and I love all the characterizations. However, I often found the execution to be lacking -- major plot points were muddled and confusing, and I found the art and word balloons frequently hard to follow. It could just be my lack of familiarity with manga style, but the confusion was enough to knock this down a point for me.
Told as Zero making a movie to get into film school, the story has a great framing device. The characters are all wonderfully quirky and very appealing. Despite the fact that their family circumstances aren’t normal, the Hopeless-Savages are a family that most teens can relate to. This is one of my favorite graphic novels. While the graphic novel is in black and white, it also includes four short stories in full color. I give this graphic novel four stars are five stars.
What you want the Osborn kids to be: witty, honest, vulnerable, and real.
A cute and funny story about what happens when two 70s punks settle down and raise a family of four. There isn't a lot to it, but it's really joyful.
I loved this! The punk family that rocks together, stays together. When their punker parents are kidnapped, Arsenal, Zero, Rat, and Twitch will stop at nothing to get them back. Along the way they infiltrate an evil coffee empire, re-punk their estranged brother, and find out that their dad once fronted a boy band.
At the center of this story is a proudly anachronistic family of punks in modern-day England. They are generally-happy people with common problems who find themselves mixed up in an implausible madcap adventure. It's a soap-opera, comedy, and children's cartoon in one, and it is written with a level of wit and compassion uncommon in graphic novels. Note: The sequel to this book (Ground Zero) proves that the written word carries the story even in a graphic novel, because the artwork was awful and...
