Big Kids

I don't normally rate items on Amazon, but felt compelled to heap some praise on this book.The art and storytelling is brutal, delicate, gripping, poignant, fantastic, odd, honest, sensual, humorous, sad, surreal, and surprisingly empathic.Sometimes our emotions and experiences are so transformative that the best way to articulate ourselves is through hyper-reality. We pass into another dimension and what was normal is never again. DeForge captures this transcendent feeling of loss, evolution, and the non sequitur series of events that bring about these changes.If you're a synesthete, as I believe I am, this book may carry even more relevance for you. When music has felt so substantial that it pushes through into other dimensions of our senses, or the poetry of an experience is so profound that you can almost feel the textures of your perception change, then DeForge's work will resonate with you.This was one of those surprise reads that ended up baptizing my imagination and evoking profound feelings.

A stunning emotionally charged dance for the retinas. Every book by Deforge has been perfect. I've collected all... In fact, his are the only comics I am completist about because I've yet to be disappointed. Each has an interesting psychologically evocative narrative brought to surface through surreal art. Each book has delivered an experience of cognitive overload where I've laughed out loud, sighed deeply, cried, and even exclaimed from the constant surprises. I'm not a huge graphic novel/comics connosieur so perhaps my opinion is not adequately informed, but I can't imagine there are any current comic artists I would prefer to fill the gaps between reading books for school.

As a painter and a graphic artist, I appreciate the randomness and humor of this wee bookIt's totally relatable even though the characters look like psychadelic mushrooms or microbes.Pretty smart! IF you have trouble being able to read into the context because the subjectmatter is so visually alien, you should stick with Archie...nothing wrong with the gang!!

Probably the strongest work yet from DeForge. He really nails the ending, which he has occasionally had some trouble with in the past. It's a freaky, uncomfortable, body-horror & sci-fi tinted coming of age story. Plus his lines & color just keep getting better.

Wonderful, didn't know what to expect, but it was great. Surreal, hits the emotions, and the pace is spot on. DeForge is sooo gooood

great! the drawing is really something special.

i enjoy most of michael deforge's books so this was a nice kind of novella

This is my first Michael DeForge book but not the last .

Another great Deforge comic. Offbeat coming of age story