This One Summer
This comic feels a lot like the movie The Way, Way Back. Similar to the movie, I feel as though this comic is about the story of people discovering who they are. It's a teenage coming of age drama story. Rose wants to grow up already. Everyone around her age in the story is talking about much more mature themes. She goes to the store to rent a dvd and then other people are talking about blow jobs. She picks out the R rated horror film. Rose talks about how sick she is with watching cartoons and that's why she likes the horror films. Then she brings up oral sex. It is very evident that she wants to be grown up and do mature things. We see her talking about the older boy working at the store and if he is old enough for her.
I like how visually this comic was black and white when the world in which the characters live in seem to be the exact opposite. I do not think that color would have enhanced the comic as I feel it would have instead taken away from the comic. The line work makes the comic have sort of a timeless feel in that any generation could read it and it would not feel that dated. I also noticed that there does not really ever seem to be that much drawn in the panels. To me this is showing us exactly what's important and not stuff that just fills up the empty panel space. Sometimes I would even notice when characters would be talking to each other there would just be white blank space behind them.
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