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james_desantis 's review for:
We Can Never Go Home Volume 1
by Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon
Good old coming of age story with a super powerful badass teenager and a quick talking assholish kindish boyfriend. Let's go!
So Madison, the main star of the series, has some extremely badass powers. Her eyes light up and she becomes super strong and fucks up shit. Then we have Duncan who is basically a sly asshole nerdy dude who decides to one day stand up to bullies. When he does Madison shows off her powers. They begin to connect and one day he makes a mixtape for her. After that she goes to visit him and in the middle of him getting attacked by his father she comes in and ends that. Then they run away, hence they can never go home.
Good: The dialog can be pretty sharp at times, and well done, and you feel Madison and Duncan relationship grow. The art is pretty solid too and mostly easy to follow. The first half of the story feels like a coming of age type story with a lot more death than usual and high stakes. The runaway feel is very interesting.
Bad: The second half becomes a "bigger" story by adding big government agency stuff, secret organizations, and it just didn't gel with the first. I also thought the humor was hit or miss, sometimes solid, sometimes cringe worthy. It's a little jumpy too and shaky in terms of pacing.
Overall this was solid stuff. It's not amazing but very solid and fun read. Some awesome ideas and it's sweet to see the start off Matt's career and already seeing how far he's gotten in just a little time. A 3 out of 5.
So Madison, the main star of the series, has some extremely badass powers. Her eyes light up and she becomes super strong and fucks up shit. Then we have Duncan who is basically a sly asshole nerdy dude who decides to one day stand up to bullies. When he does Madison shows off her powers. They begin to connect and one day he makes a mixtape for her. After that she goes to visit him and in the middle of him getting attacked by his father she comes in and ends that. Then they run away, hence they can never go home.
Good: The dialog can be pretty sharp at times, and well done, and you feel Madison and Duncan relationship grow. The art is pretty solid too and mostly easy to follow. The first half of the story feels like a coming of age type story with a lot more death than usual and high stakes. The runaway feel is very interesting.
Bad: The second half becomes a "bigger" story by adding big government agency stuff, secret organizations, and it just didn't gel with the first. I also thought the humor was hit or miss, sometimes solid, sometimes cringe worthy. It's a little jumpy too and shaky in terms of pacing.
Overall this was solid stuff. It's not amazing but very solid and fun read. Some awesome ideas and it's sweet to see the start off Matt's career and already seeing how far he's gotten in just a little time. A 3 out of 5.