Lee Strawberry
May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011
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Genevieve, a media-illiterate middle schooler, realizes that the last days are here. With fear in her heart, she wrestles with the anxiety of death as the time draws near.
- 70 Pages
- Perfect Bound
- 8.5 x 5.5in
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Beautiful, and brief look into Lee's mind. We want more!
As someone who was once in Geneviere's shoes, this comic was both healing and justifying to my inner younger self. Major props to Lee for the excelent depictions of spiraling panic attacks, especially when you're just met with more traumatic stuff!
As someone who grew up in a similar household and has lived through many "end of the world" moments, this really captures the feelings a much younger me grappled with. In other words, very relatable! I love the imagery too. Great storytelling, highly recommend.
Some things I loved:
The DS chats, the distorted intercom messages in the supermarket, the contrasting verses at the start and end of the comic, again the excellent sense of place that is very believably 2011, the windows 7 toolbar (look at the back of the book XD), "uh sorry I missed the end of the world, I was gaming-", the distorted adults... it's pretty good!!! ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ♡°◌̊
This comic draws a great picture of what it was like to be a kid in the early 2010s/late aughts and encountering doomsday panic. I had my older sister reassuring me that it was a hoax - but Genevieve doesn't have anyone to give her that same solid sense of security.
When she asks someone if it's going to end soon, she gets told yes. And it's on her mind until... oops! This isn't a summary- guess you'll have to go read it!✧⁺⸜(●′▾‵●)⸝⁺✧
really great comic compositionally and storytelling wise. could really tell the author put a lot of her childhood experiences in it and it was so beautiful to see snippets of this other persons life that was so different from mine