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There were things about this book I really liked and things that bugged me beyond belief. I appreciated the demonstration of the power a band can have on someone's life and the surprise appearances by other musicians in the imagined conversations pieces. The problem I did have with the book was that I felt some of the dialogue was choppy and in illustrating that sliced dialogue the author drew certain sentences have in the frame ( after a while this became annoying).
All and all a good book aside ...more
All and all a good book aside ...more
Awesome use of the autobiographical format. Dawson tells the story of his life as seen through the filter of Queen songs. Lots of cool ruminations on memory and influence. The illustration style is mostly good, although occasionally it bugged me how disproportionately huge the author's head was in contrast to the bodies of the rest of his family. Cool that he's friend with Alex Robinson (one of my favorite graphic novelists). I'm a bit too young to be a Queen fan, and I'll bet this would be even
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