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Skyscrapers Of The Midwest (2008)

by Joshua Cotter(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0977030474 (ISBN13: 9780977030477)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Ad House

review 1: Unfortunately the subject matter deals almost entirely with bleak and cruel acts and characters. I don't want to marginalize whatever elements of the story are autobiographical, but Cotter's personas and relationships aren't particularly complex or interesting: overly religious people are bad; this guy beats his girlfriend and she still loves him; kids can be cruel. There's just not much of the nuance of real life reflected - everyone is an extreme version of some stereotype.The art is not bad, although it can be incomprehensible at times. There's a good organic feeling given to everything, partly due to how most shapes are rounded. The flying kitten army was cool though, so there's that.
review 2: There are cats, foul mouthed cowboys, robot gods, robot cats... more, and more. It's a coming of age story, but it allows its downtrodden characters to escape into fantasy. They aren't infinitely sad, or ready to commit suicide, they don't even contemplate it. Instead, if something bad happens to the characters, they try to find a silver lining, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes this book is far more bizarre than real life, but not completely. less

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