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Summary: How will they recover from this one?
Review: Strangers in Paradise: Volume 8: My Other Life compiles the following issues into one collection: Volume 3, Issue 25: Bikini Beach; Volume 3, Issue 26: Running Late; Volume 3, Issue 27: Dark the Sun; Volume 3, Issue 28: A Field of Lions; Volume 3, Issue 29: My Other Life; and Volume 3, Issue 30: I'm Open.I very much recommend reading the first seven volumes of this series (The Collected Strangers in Paradise, I Dream of You, It's a Good Life, Love Me Tender, Immortal Enemies, High School), and Sanctuary as they provide vital backstory (and are well worth reading in their own right). Katchoo, David and Francine head to the beach to relax and recover from their recent misadventures before heading to New York so David can take the mantle of the Parker legacy left to him by Darcy. But things aren't all so well with the three pals. Francine feels more and more the third wheel, and decides to let Katchoo and David go on their own. When the worst happens, Katchoo and Francine realize that all they've ever wanted was to be with each other, but again, Katchoo's past rears its ugly, powerful head. Determined to protect Francine at all costs, Katchoo finishes what she started, widening the rift that has been growing between them that will lead to their decade apart. Francine is left alone with her mother, to start a new life, without the one person who has always been by her side. Katchoo, too, has choices to make. What will they do, these two best friends suddenly alone? My Other Life deftly carries on the story of separation started in Sanctuary. I found this collection to be less tense than Sanctuary, but no less powerful. The last pages leave you aching for more, wondering what else is going to befall these people you've grown to care about. More wonderful drama and art from Terry Moore.
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Summary: Afraid to fly
Review: Terry Moore continues his comic series "Strangers in Paradise" with another collected volume. "SiP" is the story of Francine and Katchoo, two female friends struggling with a romantic relationship. (The series also involves a top-secret organization of call girls out to control the White House, but you really should read the earlier volumes.) This time, catastrophe after catastrophe hits Francine, Katchoo and their friend David -- and nothing really gets resolved. "My Other Life" is really a setup for the next collection. It isn't as good as some of the earlier volumes. Even so, this was still a good read. The growing romance between Katchoo and Francine sustains its worst blows yet. Each character gets some great dialogue, some fantastic points. The artwork is clean and clear, like always. There are some overboard plot elements, like something from "Young and the Restless." But "SiP" holds onto its central theme -- if you love someone, and they love you back, does anything else matter?
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Summary: Afraid to fly
Review: Terry Moore continues his comic series "Strangers in Paradise" with another collected volume. "SiP" is the story of Francine and Katchoo, two female friends struggling with a romantic relationship. (The series also involves a top-secret organization of call girls out to control the White House, but you really should read the earlier volumes.) This time, catastrophe after catastrophe hits Francine, Katchoo and their friend David -- and nothing really gets resolved. "My Other Life" is really a setup for the next collection. It isn't as good as some of the earlier volumes. Even so, this was still a good read. The growing romance between Katchoo and Francine sustains its worst blows yet. Each character gets some great dialogue, some fantastic points. The artwork is clean and clear, like always. There are some overboard plot elements, like something from "Young and the Restless." But "SiP" holds onto its central theme -- if you love someone, and they love you back, does anything else matter?
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