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Summary: Best volume since "I dream of You"
Review: Strangers in Paradise is about three people (Francine, Katchoo and David) who are constantly in a struggle with their feelings and finding out who loves who in what manner. A big factor is also the past of Katchoo (related to David's past) from which more and more gets out in the open. It is best labelled as "exaggerated action-reality-soap". This collection being the second book of the third volume (previous collection is called "Love me Tender").In this particular graphic novel: Katchoo realizes she made a mistake by chasing away David, only David has vanished without a trace so there's no way for here to simply go over to his place and make it up to him (see previous book for details). She goes out to look for him and starts with David's roots, at his sisters place.
Meanwhile Miss Parker (see "I dream of You", the first book of the 2nd volume) is handling some 'big business'. It gets revealed Miss Parker never stopped monitoring katchoo, her ex-lover. When Katchoo learns of this she has but one question, "who's the mole ?". A confrontation seems inevitable. Like I said in the review-title, I think this is the best volume since "I Dream of You" (the book that I would advise people to start reading this series with). The story that started in the previous volume is further build up here and shows links that have been there all along but that you never saw. The art is like always in the hands of Terry Moore and is still good and consistent (in black-and-white).
Again a very nice graphic novel, but like I said I'd start with "I dream of You' (or at the very least "Love me Tender" which is the first part of this particular story). A constantly good series so far, although the main plan of Moore to keep this series as true-to-reality as possible is slowly beginning to slip.
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Summary: What's a girl to do?
Review: Strangers in Paradise: Volume 5: Immortal Enemies is the next trade paperback collection of Terry Moore's wonderful comic. This book collects the following issues: Volume 3, Issue 6: The Elephant Graveyard; Volume 3, Issue 7: The Very Thing That Makes Her Rich; Volume 3, Issue 8, I Believe You; Volume 3, Issue 9: The Loneliness of Madmen; Volume 3, Issue 10: Suddenly; Volume 3, Issue 11: Immortal Enemies; and Volume 3, Issue 12: The Danger of the Night. (If you have not read the first four volumes (The Collected Strangers in Paradise, I Dream of You, It's a Good Life, and Love Me Tender), I recommend you do so, or you'll be missing vital backstory.) What's a girl to do? It seems that no matter what Katchoo does, she can't win. Never one to have many friends, Katchoo realizes that she's lost one of the few people she's ever felt she could trust (slow though that may have been in coming), and, worse, that it was her fault. How can she expect David to open up to her when she never tells him anything about herself? Determined to set things right, Katchoo goes to find David, the only way she can... by asking the dreaded Darcy Parker for a favor. How far will Katchoo go to find David? How far will Darcy go to bend Katchoo to her whims? How far will David go to save Katchoo? And how far will Francine go just to find out what's going on? Immortal Enemies continues the stories of Katchoo's attempts (and failures) to escape her past. It seems that there's nothing she can do to get away from mistakes that continue to haunt her, and endangering her friends. As with the rest of the series, the book is rife with emotional conflict and physical violence, and puts our heroes and heroines in any number of impossible situations. If you've enjoyed the previous volumes of the series, you're sure to love Immortal Enemies.
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Summary: SIP addicted
Review: try it --- love it -- treasure it -- and it refers to the story, the characters, the author...keeps you coming back for more or re-reading until the next issue comes out...
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