Reviews

Kill Your Boyfriend by Philip Bond, D'Israeli, Grant Morrison, Daniel Vozzo

trilbynorton's review

funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Grant Morrison's Natural Born Killers. This feels a bit flimsy compared to the work Morrison had done previously (Animal Man, Doom Patrol). Still, it does evoke a time in British culture when people did seem to believe that teenage delinquency would genuinely lead to the downfall of civilisation.

hakimbriki's review

1.0

Kill Your Boyfriend is very simple and straight-forward for a Grant Morrison story. A school girls gets bored with her life and chooses to "break bad" by becoming partners in crime with a psycho.

Grant Morrison calls this book "a love story" in his afterword, but all I saw was a couple of uninspired characters breaking the law for shit and giggles. He addresses the issue of sex and violence desensitization in a surprisingly unsubtle manner and fails at his attempt to inject humor and pathos into a rather forgettable story.

Not Morrison's best!

takumo_n's review

3.0

Badlands trying a little too hard with the clever humor and references, I guess.

magnetgrrl's review

3.0

Read in high school but re-read it very recently when I bought a new copy. Not as 4-star as I remember, actually. Downgrading to 3.

snailinbar's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

5.0

if i could rate this as 6, i'd definitely rate it as 12

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Alcohol, Incest, Murder, Bullying, Violence, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Sexual violence

robin_dh's review

dark funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

fadoua_05's review

3.0

This was a ride ! An insight into the life and mind of someone who hates everything and wants to do anything !

urfavpunk's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

kitfitreads's review

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

audleigh's review

1.0

To start with, I generally love Grant Morrison's work. I would put The Invisibles in my top 5 comic series of all time. However, Kill Your Boyfriend did nothing for me. It felt like the book was covering material that has been done better in a number of places. I know that the book came out before we were used to this. Before Tarantino was a big name. Before Natural Born Killers. I have to deal with this book as I met it, and in 2018, this book is old hat and unimaginative. That kills me to say. Most of Morrison's work is wonderfully twisted and creative, punky and pulpy and in your face. But Kill Your Boyfriend is... boring. It's not going to stand up well beside his other works. Not for my taste, anyway. I wanted more. I wanted it to feel crazy and unstable while still feeling purposeful. Instead, it feels like a thing he might have written for fun and got it published because he could. I could be totally off on that assessment. I'm still left with the impression that there was nothing special about this graphic novel.