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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
"Someone, somewhere, right now is being impacted by your existence-whether good or bad. That's what I choose to believe this is all about."
I honestly feel everyone with any combination of depression, anxiety, & imposter syndrome should read this, or anyone trying to understand anyone suffering with these.
"That's the problem with flirting with the idea of something, sometimes you fall in."
It's explained so well, putting words to so many internal thoughts, & also showing how far from we are. It's "relatable."
"The void was here. & it was beautiful."
The prose is fantastic. We have a nonlinear story - jumping in time, but it's always labeled.
"You're loved. Not by who you want, but you're king of the Freaks. Eat a fucking bug."
The art changes frequently, but it's easy to follow, with certain styles representing different things. It seems chaotic at first, but the chaos is very organized.
"I learnt the power of self-deprecation at a young age. What I didn't learn was how to stop."
Representation: MC with depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies & idealation, & imposter syndrome
"For the record, no one is simply 'happy,' it's a temporary state of being that comes & goes, just like pain."
I honestly feel everyone with any combination of depression, anxiety, & imposter syndrome should read this, or anyone trying to understand anyone suffering with these.
"That's the problem with flirting with the idea of something, sometimes you fall in."
It's explained so well, putting words to so many internal thoughts, & also showing how far from we are. It's "relatable."
"The void was here. & it was beautiful."
The prose is fantastic. We have a nonlinear story - jumping in time, but it's always labeled.
"You're loved. Not by who you want, but you're king of the Freaks. Eat a fucking bug."
The art changes frequently, but it's easy to follow, with certain styles representing different things. It seems chaotic at first, but the chaos is very organized.
"I learnt the power of self-deprecation at a young age. What I didn't learn was how to stop."
Representation: MC with depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies & idealation, & imposter syndrome
"For the record, no one is simply 'happy,' it's a temporary state of being that comes & goes, just like pain."
dark
emotional
fast-paced
i didn’t think i would have liked this as much as i did but holy shit, what a story
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
i wish i didn’t relate to this. it’s kind of depressing that i do.-
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Zoe Thorogood wrote a thoroly good book, that she did. Lolz, I'll leave now.
Zoe spliced open her heart and her head and laid it all out for us to gain an insight on mental illness, empathise with her, laugh with her, cry with her, judge her... Relate to her... Heh. Inside joke if you read it.
This extremely personal and unfiltered look at mental health and loneliness reminds me somewhat of the brilliant literary comics of Tom King. The panel layouts showing anxiety as an unseen looming physical presence, especially when panels are left blank. The meta commentary about the life of an artist.The musings about what it all means, and why, and even the self deprecating humour that always strikes a chord with me. Tom King knows he makes sad books, and he likes that it's a meme, he shares it with people who judge him anyway. This is very reminiscent of Mister Miracle, but far more zoomed in and personal, given that it's of course an autobiographic novel... Ha, puns.
She shows a proclivity for mildly irksome affectations and a good dollop of pretentious navel gazing. And as she herself says; misery porn. But, it's written with a sardonic and dry self awareness that I can't really criticise that. The sense of humour through the intensely dark shit makes stories like these very readable. Just that occasionally it was annoying to read, and you wanna shake her to snap out of the clichéd artistic wallowing. But that's precisely the point, this is just a therapeutic task for her, and of course it's about her. This is what mental illness does, its ugly, it's terrifying, it's silent, and it pushes people away. We can judge all we like, but this is what it is. And I tend to like stuff like this anyway. A brilliant comic, and a wonderful use of the medium... Who said that western comics are dead? Are y'all reading Image books?
Dis good. Me like. She should do a funny book with Tom King. That'd be a laugh.
Zoe spliced open her heart and her head and laid it all out for us to gain an insight on mental illness, empathise with her, laugh with her, cry with her, judge her... Relate to her... Heh. Inside joke if you read it.
This extremely personal and unfiltered look at mental health and loneliness reminds me somewhat of the brilliant literary comics of Tom King. The panel layouts showing anxiety as an unseen looming physical presence, especially when panels are left blank. The meta commentary about the life of an artist.The musings about what it all means, and why, and even the self deprecating humour that always strikes a chord with me. Tom King knows he makes sad books, and he likes that it's a meme, he shares it with people who judge him anyway. This is very reminiscent of Mister Miracle, but far more zoomed in and personal, given that it's of course an autobiographic novel... Ha, puns.
She shows a proclivity for mildly irksome affectations and a good dollop of pretentious navel gazing. And as she herself says; misery porn. But, it's written with a sardonic and dry self awareness that I can't really criticise that. The sense of humour through the intensely dark shit makes stories like these very readable. Just that occasionally it was annoying to read, and you wanna shake her to snap out of the clichéd artistic wallowing. But that's precisely the point, this is just a therapeutic task for her, and of course it's about her. This is what mental illness does, its ugly, it's terrifying, it's silent, and it pushes people away. We can judge all we like, but this is what it is. And I tend to like stuff like this anyway. A brilliant comic, and a wonderful use of the medium... Who said that western comics are dead? Are y'all reading Image books?
Dis good. Me like. She should do a funny book with Tom King. That'd be a laugh.