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levonanthony's review
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
dogeared88's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed the stories about Boy and the wedding ring the best.
libraryrobin's review against another edition
4.0
Stories of small miracles that touched the lives of the people on Dropsie St. Always thought provoking.
the8th's review against another edition
3.0
I wish I could remember all the ideas I came up with after reading this. Most of them were just arrows I wanted draw from him to other people. I mean, there's a reason the Eisner awards are even called that.
zekelikeybooks's review against another edition
4.0
really great fun stories. favorite were the boy one and the marriage one. some images are fully burned in my head now--especially the gunshot in the rain. beautiful art. i understand how Eisner is the best. he is! especially compared to the really bad comics I have been reading.
also i just realized kavalier and clay is based on him...interesting interesting. gonna read a lot of Eisner this month!
also i just realized kavalier and clay is based on him...interesting interesting. gonna read a lot of Eisner this month!
dajna's review against another edition
4.0
I'm still on Dropsie Avenue and I'm loving it more and more. This time, I witnesses some little neighborhood miracles in the Jew community. I can't believe I came across Will Eisner by chance, his graphic novels should be part of every respectable library
rebus's review
3.0
Despite an irony that befalls most of the characters for their greed or dissolute behavior, I wasn't wholly won over to Eisner's depiction of the business mindset (especially given that he did open one of the first comics sweatshops and denied rights to his creators like all the others). It does seem to critique and expose the psychopathic nature of the profit motive and place the blame clearly on Judaic culture, but at the same time it has reverence for those characters. He does also depict the paranoid nature of that culture and the propaganda inherent in the bible, showing how they city entire city blocks as enemy territory, but trying to suggest they weren't the world's first xenophobes (inherent also in the arranged marriages only within their class and culture, though he would turn that on its ear in another GN).
It's a very confused narrative, especially when the Good Jew, the diamond broker--has there been a more evil slave oriented business in human history--is portrayed as humble (the Jewish Federal Attorney who wrote a recent book about being briefly kidnapped did the same in depicting his father as the humble cantor, who also happened to be a stoke broker who sent his kid to an elite Law School).
It's a very confused narrative, especially when the Good Jew, the diamond broker--has there been a more evil slave oriented business in human history--is portrayed as humble (the Jewish Federal Attorney who wrote a recent book about being briefly kidnapped did the same in depicting his father as the humble cantor, who also happened to be a stoke broker who sent his kid to an elite Law School).
brizreading's review against another edition
3.0
Much as you would expect, if you've read other things by Will Eisner. And you should definitely read other Eisner comix before this one. My recommendation: New York: The Big City.