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Siobhan L wrote this review Thursday, October 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Pretty art.”
“This is a multi-authored work featuring the comic stylings of various artists . . . and though the stories are unrelated in style and content, the one common thread is that they are all based, if loosely, on Tori Amos songs. I received this as a gift from my friend Mike because I am a Tori fan, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. What I liked best is that the comics inside were not just retellings of whatever the actual Tori song was about (though in some cases it seemed like they were similar); occasionally her lyrics would be quoted or maybe just one line would be the inspiration, but overall it just seemed like most of the contributors used one of her songs as a jump-off point and the rest might as well have been coincidence. I also love to "draw" music ([a href="http://swankivy.com/doodles/legit/songdraw/"]and have done so[/a]), and I run [a href="http://negativeone.swankivy.com"]a webcomic[/a], so I kinda wish I could contribute to the next volume.
swankivy wrote this review Sunday, February 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
My favorites in the book were the following: "Bouncing off Clouds" by Josh Hechinger/Matthew Humphreys; "Girl" by Jonathan Tsuei/Eric Canete/Saskia Gutekunst/Geoff Ong; "Take To The Sky" by Sara Ryan/Jonathan Case; "Little Earthquakes" by Tristan Crane/Atticus Wolrab; "Little Amsterdam" by Leif Jones; "Here. In my head" by Elizabeth Genco/Carla Speed McNeil/Mark Sweeney; "Suede" by Kelly Sue DeConnick/Andy MacDonald/Nick Filardi/Kristyn Ferretti; "Teenage Hustling" by C.B Cebulski/Ethan Young/Joey Weltjens/Lee Duhig; "The Waitress" by Rantz A. Hoseley/Ming Doyle/Mark Sweeney/Kristyn Ferretti; "Caught a Lite Sneeze" by Mike Maihack; "Winter" by John Ney Rieber/Ryan Kelly/Kristyn Ferretti; "The Beekeeper" by Neil Kleid/Christopher Mitten/Kristyn Ferretti; "Iieee" by Peov; "Leather" by John Bivens; "Scarlet's Walk" by G. Willow Wilson/Steve Sampson; "I can't see New York" by Adisakdi Tantimedh/Ken Meyer Jr.; "Cornflake Girl" by Seth Peck/Daniel Heard; "Hey Jupiter" by Leah Moore/John Reppion/Pia Guerra/Mark Sweeney/Kristyn Ferretti; "Sweet the Sting" by Jimmie Robinson; "Ribbons Undone" by Lea Hernandez; and "Pretty Good Year" by Derek McCulloch/Colleen Doran/Jason Hanley. There were a couple I actually disliked but I won't name names; mainly I just don't like it that they let stuff get into the book when there were misspelled words and stuff, or stuff that was weird just to be weird (or seemed so).”
“Great showcase of innovative art and storytelling. As usual with this sort of collection, the story quality is uneven, and it's often not apparent how a given story relates to the song that inspired it. Some of the art, OTOH, is brilliant. Also, kudos to the editors for pulling together a fem-friendly comic collection.
apokalypsis wrote this review Friday, February 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“A must for any Tori fan, and a good book for lovers of the graphic novel, particularly as a visual art form. The best: Kako's purely visual rendition of "Marianne" that captures the sound of the piano with images of amusement park rides and bees, Dawn Bell's bawdy yarn of a lusty spirit in "Programmable Soda," Jeff Carroll's tale of "Toast" among the spirits of a tree that makes an otherwise lackluster song feel so much richer, a dark and psychedelic manifestation of the Southern Gothic "Little Amsterdam" by Leif Jones, Elizabeth Genco's just-about-perfect exploration of "Here, In My Head" as a tale of unrequited love between a bird-woman and a human (which I never realized is EXACTLY what that song is about), Omaha Perez putting the "father' back in "Father Lucifer," an anti-war "Northern Lad" by Tom Williams, and Jessica Staley's phantasmagoric father/daughter variation on "Devils and Gods." ”
Rudy R wrote this review Friday, October 31 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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