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A review by trywii
The Pervert by Remy Boydell, Michelle Perez
2.0
A bit of a letdown- I was recommended this by someone as a messy queer story for adults. I would agree that’s a good description, but the story itself is lackluster.
There’s no actual ‘plot’, it’s more of a series of moments the protagonist is going through until the book ends.
There’s an implication of resolution at the end as if the protagonist has reached a grand finale of a character arc, but there’s not really an arc, so there isn’t really a resolution. The protagonist is more or less the same as she was in the beginning, and there isn’t any sense that her life is changed in any significant way by how things end.
The biggest transgression of this graphic novel that made me drop this from a 3 star to a 2 star review is the odd usage of trademarked characters throughout.
I’m not sure why Clifford the Big Red Dog is doing micro-aggressions on the protagonist or why Charlie Brown is slinging slurs. Is it for comedy? Like ‘haha, these kid’s characters are being cruel to the protagonist’? If it’s for comedy, it’s in bizarre and poor taste. If it’s just to make a reference to a recognizable character, then…why use it like *that*? I have no clue what purpose these cameos serve and it takes me completely out of what I assumed to be a serious and brooding story about a sex worker struggling.
The best thing going for the GN is the art, which fits the mood and I do enjoy the original character designs throughout. Other than that, it’s not much of a story.
There’s no actual ‘plot’, it’s more of a series of moments the protagonist is going through until the book ends.
There’s an implication of resolution at the end as if the protagonist has reached a grand finale of a character arc, but there’s not really an arc, so there isn’t really a resolution. The protagonist is more or less the same as she was in the beginning, and there isn’t any sense that her life is changed in any significant way by how things end.
The biggest transgression of this graphic novel that made me drop this from a 3 star to a 2 star review is the odd usage of trademarked characters throughout.
I’m not sure why Clifford the Big Red Dog is doing micro-aggressions on the protagonist or why Charlie Brown is slinging slurs. Is it for comedy? Like ‘haha, these kid’s characters are being cruel to the protagonist’? If it’s for comedy, it’s in bizarre and poor taste. If it’s just to make a reference to a recognizable character, then…why use it like *that*? I have no clue what purpose these cameos serve and it takes me completely out of what I assumed to be a serious and brooding story about a sex worker struggling.
The best thing going for the GN is the art, which fits the mood and I do enjoy the original character designs throughout. Other than that, it’s not much of a story.