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“Emo Boy Volume 1: Nobody Cares About Anything Anyway, So Why Don’t We All Just Die?”
Emond, Steve
Graphic Novel
Emond, S. (2006). Emo boy volume 1: Nobody cares about anything, anyway, so why don’t we all just die?. New York: SLG Publishing.
Summary:
Emo Boy is a regular high school student but has a special power – he is so incredibly emo (short for ‘emotional’, short for ‘angsty and unhappy’) that he is able to cause destruction whenever his emo level rises too high. After sharing deep cosmic love thoughts with a girl, he accidentally blows her head off with the sheer force of his emo. He faces other issues too: poor grades in school, bullying, wavering heterosexuality – the usual. He lives with his friend and his own family is never pictured.
Target age and audience: 9th – 12th grade students.
Likes:
There are tiny nuggets of humor buried fore and aft at several points in the book. One scene that I appreciated was in English class when Emo Boy writes a poem about suicide and a football player bullies him by saying that he could commit suicide a hundred times better than Emo Boy ever could. Well, he does, and now the football team has another reason to hate EB – they lost one of their star players. During a dodgeball game EB takes a hit “for feminism”. EB’s friend is sarcastic and independent. I would have much rather read an entire book about her.
Dislikes:
It seemed like a lot of art and text to wade through for a few interesting and funny parts. I thought that the premise was just okay (EB’s ’super powers’ are never really explained and we only see them two or three times) and by the end I was getting sick of EB’s whining and nihilism. The art was fine but it always followed the text and would not be able to stand alone.
One of the reviews from goodreads.com summed up the book as:
“One of the worst thing’s I’ve ever read. Imagine Scott Pilgrim with half the humor and only a quarter of the storytelling abilities.
Or to put it another way: The guy at a party who makes one good joke and continues to riff on it for the rest of the night while people continue to get more and more annoyed.
Avoid. Unless you’re in high school. Then you’ll probably love it. Five years ago, I probably would have.”
In addition, I never felt convinced that Emo Boy had an authentic teenage ‘voice’. His lines and situations seemed like something that an adult thinks that a teenager would do or say, and it misses the mark.
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