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Giant Days … pillow fort reading until Twin Peaks

01 Monday May 2017

Posted by HC in Books, Fun, good times

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boom studios, comic series, comics, esther de groot, giant days, graphic novels, john allison, twin peaks

I started watching Community whilst sick and now all I want to do is build a pillow fort on a rainy day. Inside there will be a room for eating pie and damn good coffee, a place to roll around in Twin Peaks anticipation. Two hours of glory on May 21st. Possibly later for us as Showtime isn’t one of our three channels, but my sister’s recording it for me or she’s out of the family.

Also in my pillow fort will be a room for reading Giant Days and eating crumpets. I ate a crumpet nearly every day when I lived in London. Now I can’t watch or read anything set in England without aching for one lightly toasted with a little butter and preserves.

Unfortunately there are only 4 volumes of Giant Days so far. Discovering how fantastic this series is so early in is almost like watching Twin Peak for the first time and getting really excited that there are two whole seasons of wonderful strangeness only to arrive at the second season and find the party long over, all the magic gone save for the dreamy opening sequence, which I’d live on were it chewable.

Giant Days and Twin Peaks have nothing in common other than that I want more of both RIGHT NOW. I’m ringing my sick bell for them. Ideally Special Agent Dale Cooper brings me volume 5 and then we fly away.

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dalecooperBoom! Studios publishes Giant Days and Lumberjanes so I expected to like it, though the intended audience is older for Giant Days. The series follows three close friends, Susan, Esther and Daisy, in their first year at university. The stories are small slices of their lives – dating, yearning, looking for an apartment too late. It’s best to go in with no expectations. I was told Giant Days is hilarious. So funny. So when I read the first volume and didn’t harm myself laughing I figured it was another overrated comic. It’s not.

I read it again because the colorful characters and lively artwork are too good to put down. Giant Days is universally amusing addictive eye candy. The characters are wildly entertaining. I’m not into fashion, but even their detailed outfits are fun. The whole experience of reading each volume is total joy.

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Curious to see a fresh reaction, I handed them over to my boyfriend without saying anything. He laughed a lot and I think he has a thing for Daisy. Everything I like about the series, he likes, too. The characters are so different from each other. Then there’s a handful of side characters who are just as endearingly flawed.

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There’s so much to like about Giant Days. I missed the hahas the first time I read the first volume because my arms were crossed demanding to be delighted. Every character has their own sense of humor. Their stories are grounded in reality while the tone is heightened in silliness. The dynamic of every relationship varies and evolves. It’s a pleasure to read because the series hits so many different notes and the friends have genuine moments of regret, loneliness, delusion, lust, hope, failure and other good time emotions. You can even read it in my imaginary pillow fort.

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Scoring auntie points with Lumberjanes

25 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by HC in Fun, good times, summer

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boom studios, comic books, drive-in, jurassic world, kids comics, lumberjanes, san andreas, summer reading, summer running

Last summer I gave my niece the first three issues of Lumberjanes for her 6th birthday. The comics are aimed at a slightly higher reading level, but I couldn’t resist introducing her to these adventurous young gals. We read them together a few times and she seemed to like the combo of visual storytelling and spunky dialogue, but there’s a huge gap between like and love. Like eventually gets lost under a bed and that’s what I figured happened with these.

Oh, well.

Then last week we’re drinking watermelon lemonade smoothies and waiting for our newly painted birdhouse masterpieces to dry. She disappears upstairs and returns with the white cardboard envelop the Lumberjane comics were shipped in. Only now the envelop is colored blue and covered with rainbows and toothy purple sharks. The three issues have the wear and tear of a year’s worth of constant page turning. Apparently she reads them all the time, brings them on car rides and picnics.

Score!

I get big auntie points for introducing my little buddies to a series they love. So I go to the Boom Studios store hoping there are a few more issues now that she’s memorized the first three. There are. Lots and lots of them. 17 to be exact, with an 18th due out in August. AND 20th Century Fox is developing the series into a live action movie.

The girlies are thrilled. That is their reaction to everything these days – varying degrees of excitement. Disappointment rolls off of them faster than they can inhale a bucket of cotton candy, which is pretty fast and reminds me of a valuable life lesson. Never ever ever open my mouth at night at the drive-in and allow a child to put a pinch of something edible in it. It will be wet from their own mouths, sticky, and more sugary than my boring adult body can handle.

Jurassic World and San Andreas were high production bores, but we did see a rainbow and made friends with the geniuses in the pick-up truck parked next to us. They hauled a couch and recliner to the drive-in and waved to us on our dewy, grass-covered blanket spread on a lumpy hill. Clearly these are people who have mastered life.

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