Book-It '10! Book #46
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alivemagdoleneThe Fifty Books Challenge, year two! This was a library request.
Title: Strangers In Paradise (Book Six) by Terry Moore
Details: Copyright 2007, Abstract Studio
Synopsis (By Way of Back Cover): "David has a terrible secret. The angel of death is following him around. When Tambi learns of his dark secret she confronts David and forces him to tell the women who love him. In a desperate bid to change David's impending fate the girls consider anything and everything, but it's Katchoo who comes up with the most shocking plan of all. As the plan unfolds, things become complicated when Francine, the great love of Katchoo's life, returns to claim her place by Katchoo's side and finds the spot taken.
This collection contains the heartwarming finale to Terry Moore's graphic novel series, Strangers in Paradise. SiP has won numerous awards and is published in eleven different languages around the world."
Why I Wanted to Read It: Having stupidly requested the fifth book in the collected series thinking it was a single book, I now am scrambling to read the rest of this rather sprawling collection. I've read Love & Lies (which actually falls under this collection), Book Three, and Book Four.
How I Liked It: The sweeping finale introduces as well as "grows" old characters, all centered around a sweeping finish. It's hard to go into details about this particular volume without massive spoilers, but it's perhaps the best and certainly the most emotionally bare of the books I've read in this series. The art is particularly exquisite and serves to almost show how much Moore has grown as an artist and a storyteller along with his characters.
One of the only missteps is the two characters granted an ending that feels slightly false (or more accurately, an ending surrounding one character that affects another feels uneven). Even that is overwhelmed by the utter beauty of Moore's art and exquisite storytelling.
Notable: With each new book I read in this series (each of which is more like a chapter), anything I noted in previous volumes seems off (since it's continued/muted/explained in other volumes). So in this, I will note something exclusive to this particular book: the cover.
Katchoo, one of the main characters, flashes massive, unrealistic (even for a cartoon) cleavage thanks to the wonder of shading. In the original art featured in the book, Katchoo is shaded in her typically slim, slightly boyish figure, that aggressive look framed by a list of with what Katchoo finishes the maxim "Fool me once...".
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One hopes this is merely an artistic slip on someone other than Moore's part.
Title: Strangers In Paradise (Book Six) by Terry Moore
Details: Copyright 2007, Abstract Studio
Synopsis (By Way of Back Cover): "David has a terrible secret. The angel of death is following him around. When Tambi learns of his dark secret she confronts David and forces him to tell the women who love him. In a desperate bid to change David's impending fate the girls consider anything and everything, but it's Katchoo who comes up with the most shocking plan of all. As the plan unfolds, things become complicated when Francine, the great love of Katchoo's life, returns to claim her place by Katchoo's side and finds the spot taken.
This collection contains the heartwarming finale to Terry Moore's graphic novel series, Strangers in Paradise. SiP has won numerous awards and is published in eleven different languages around the world."
Why I Wanted to Read It: Having stupidly requested the fifth book in the collected series thinking it was a single book, I now am scrambling to read the rest of this rather sprawling collection. I've read Love & Lies (which actually falls under this collection), Book Three, and Book Four.
How I Liked It: The sweeping finale introduces as well as "grows" old characters, all centered around a sweeping finish. It's hard to go into details about this particular volume without massive spoilers, but it's perhaps the best and certainly the most emotionally bare of the books I've read in this series. The art is particularly exquisite and serves to almost show how much Moore has grown as an artist and a storyteller along with his characters.
One of the only missteps is the two characters granted an ending that feels slightly false (or more accurately, an ending surrounding one character that affects another feels uneven). Even that is overwhelmed by the utter beauty of Moore's art and exquisite storytelling.
Notable: With each new book I read in this series (each of which is more like a chapter), anything I noted in previous volumes seems off (since it's continued/muted/explained in other volumes). So in this, I will note something exclusive to this particular book: the cover.
Katchoo, one of the main characters, flashes massive, unrealistic (even for a cartoon) cleavage thanks to the wonder of shading. In the original art featured in the book, Katchoo is shaded in her typically slim, slightly boyish figure, that aggressive look framed by a list of with what Katchoo finishes the maxim "Fool me once...".
One hopes this is merely an artistic slip on someone other than Moore's part.
