Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Cruse

4 reviews

ajluedke91's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Intense but great book about the intersectionalities of the civil rights movement. Focused on a white closeted gay man’s perspective and experience having hesitancies of actively and openly supporting racial justice. It does a fair job addressing white guilt and fragility and figuring out how to do and be better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Abortion

tangleroot_eli's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

Not sure how I've missed this classic queer graphic novel for so long! Beautifully (in terms of both narrative and art) situates one young gay man's coming-out journey in the US South in the early '60s within the contexts of other cultural struggles going on at the time. Sometimes painful but always honest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Hate crime, Racism, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Homophobia

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Drug use, Police brutality, Sexual content, War, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Animal cruelty

puggreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

thingquail's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Murder