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A stunningly strange and silly and wonderful book. A world where superheroes are all around us. But it’s the strange traits, insecurities and manipulations we possess that are our superpowers.
This becomes a playful way to dissect the specificities that make us terrible and magnificent all at the same time.
Few books have stuck with me like this one.
This becomes a playful way to dissect the specificities that make us terrible and magnificent all at the same time.
Few books have stuck with me like this one.
Mar 18, 2025
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🚃I found this book at my friend’s apartment and we decided to read it, partially for fun and as a joke, but it absolutely wrecked me. It was a couple nights before I left London, after my graduation, and I was in the whole job hunting process and I was hopelessly lost!
There was something about this whole idea that even though the book was meant for a kid, I never felt more connected to it, at that point it felt like every line was perfectly tailored to how I was feeling. It’s also really interesting because I think it was his last published children’s book. kinda makes me think if he might’ve written it for himself as well, to cope with growing old?
I’m turning 23 in a few days and I’m right where I was (cluelessness wise) when I read this book several months ago… I think it’s okay not having everything sorted and figured out, just because you haven’t yet met the goals you’ve set doesn’t mean you haven’t been constantly learning something. ⭐🤸♀️🧸💕
I’m turning 23 in a few days and I’m right where I was (cluelessness wise) when I read this book several months ago… I think it’s okay not having everything sorted and figured out, just because you haven’t yet met the goals you’ve set doesn’t mean you haven’t been constantly learning something. ⭐🤸♀️🧸💕
Apr 28, 2024
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back with another comic rec (as if you could stop me)
this book found me at a time when my relationship with my mental health and media as a whole was changing (for the better) as i transitioned from high school to college. i think it's less so about how this book changed my perspective than realizing through this book that my perspective had changed. going through my teenage years i really clung on to bojack horseman-esque depictions of mental illness and it really fed into like the bad feelings i was having inside. a lot of tom king's works up until this point revolved around mental illness in the face of normalcy and suburbia (wish i could do a tom king deep dive but we have no time!) and i think as a late teenager i took the wrong lessons from his work, and would re-read the pages where characters would share their darkest thoughts or the saddest scenes and be like "literally me". then came mister miracle, a story about the new god scott free, the greatest escape artist in the universe, jack kirby's jesus, as he tried (and fails) to escape life and death (if you're not catching my drift - this one's dark!). by the time the series had ended though, it ends on this note about acceptance in the face of living with what you lived through, and oddly enough, as the years have gone by, i found myself returning to that final issue more than anything else.
this book found me at a time when my relationship with my mental health and media as a whole was changing (for the better) as i transitioned from high school to college. i think it's less so about how this book changed my perspective than realizing through this book that my perspective had changed. going through my teenage years i really clung on to bojack horseman-esque depictions of mental illness and it really fed into like the bad feelings i was having inside. a lot of tom king's works up until this point revolved around mental illness in the face of normalcy and suburbia (wish i could do a tom king deep dive but we have no time!) and i think as a late teenager i took the wrong lessons from his work, and would re-read the pages where characters would share their darkest thoughts or the saddest scenes and be like "literally me". then came mister miracle, a story about the new god scott free, the greatest escape artist in the universe, jack kirby's jesus, as he tried (and fails) to escape life and death (if you're not catching my drift - this one's dark!). by the time the series had ended though, it ends on this note about acceptance in the face of living with what you lived through, and oddly enough, as the years have gone by, i found myself returning to that final issue more than anything else.
Jun 13, 2024
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I picked this gem up in high school and never forgot it and its wonderful illustrations I’ll turn into tattoos.
What I really connected to was how our passions can lead to our demise if we don’t have healthy relationships with them🪐
Dec 5, 2024
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