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theresidentbookworm's review
4.0
As much as I adore Marvel, I also love reading comics that do not certain around superheroes. Indie comics are endlessly good these days, and I like diving into series that seem interesting to me. My most recent find? Marilyn Manor.
Marilyn Manor comes from the beautiful brain of Magdalene Visaggio, the writer of the Eisner-nominated Kim & Kim and DC's Eternity Girl. I love Visaggio and her writing because of her series Quantum Teens Are Go. If you haven't read that series, check it out. It has time travel and great trans representation, and teen romance that you'll actually be able to stand.
Of course, coming from Visaggio, I was expecting Marilyn Manor to have a great premise. And boy, did it deliver. Marilyn Kelleher is the first daughter of the White House in the early 1980s. Named after Marilyn Monroe (with whom her dad had an affair when he was a junior senator), Marilyn is not the dutiful daughter everyone expects of the president's daughter. Instead, she is determined to throw a rager in the White House while her parents are on a diplomatic visit to East Asia. Of course, her best friend Abe, who used to be Janice before they used a Ouija board in the White House, and she became possessed by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, is also along for the ride (and also maybe in love with Marilyn?). If that description doesn't hook you, I don't know what will.
I have so many hopes for this series. I love the concept. I love Marilyn's boldness and her strong identification with Marilyn Monroe. I love the dream-like Marilyn as her namesake pages. I love her friend Abe and how she has to deal with Abe Lincoln and his memories being in her head (and the fact it means she knows where the secret tunnels are). Most of all, I love the idea of an 80s rager being thrown in the White House during what I'm sure is a conservative presidency.
Marilyn Manor does not get five stars because it is merely setting the stage for what's to come, but it gets the highest four stars I could give. Recommended!
Marilyn Manor comes from the beautiful brain of Magdalene Visaggio, the writer of the Eisner-nominated Kim & Kim and DC's Eternity Girl. I love Visaggio and her writing because of her series Quantum Teens Are Go. If you haven't read that series, check it out. It has time travel and great trans representation, and teen romance that you'll actually be able to stand.
Of course, coming from Visaggio, I was expecting Marilyn Manor to have a great premise. And boy, did it deliver. Marilyn Kelleher is the first daughter of the White House in the early 1980s. Named after Marilyn Monroe (with whom her dad had an affair when he was a junior senator), Marilyn is not the dutiful daughter everyone expects of the president's daughter. Instead, she is determined to throw a rager in the White House while her parents are on a diplomatic visit to East Asia. Of course, her best friend Abe, who used to be Janice before they used a Ouija board in the White House, and she became possessed by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, is also along for the ride (and also maybe in love with Marilyn?). If that description doesn't hook you, I don't know what will.
I have so many hopes for this series. I love the concept. I love Marilyn's boldness and her strong identification with Marilyn Monroe. I love the dream-like Marilyn as her namesake pages. I love her friend Abe and how she has to deal with Abe Lincoln and his memories being in her head (and the fact it means she knows where the secret tunnels are). Most of all, I love the idea of an 80s rager being thrown in the White House during what I'm sure is a conservative presidency.
Marilyn Manor does not get five stars because it is merely setting the stage for what's to come, but it gets the highest four stars I could give. Recommended!
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