Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick
"Great fun!" - The Miami Herald Named one of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels for 2013! Suzie's just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we'd ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here, by Matt Fraction (Satellite Sam, Hawkeye) and Chip Zdarsky (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops). "On the surface, this is a hilarious story of two people, Suzanne and Jon, with the power to stop time after they orgasm, and then rob banks while (almost) everyone else is frozen in time, which is an amazingly original idea. But underneath that, this is a story of the beginning of a relationship: its exciting newness, its terrifying possibilities, its ups and downs, its secrets and understandings, and, of course, its sex." - PW
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This is one of those situations where you feel like you'll need to defend yourself for thinking nothing more than "meh."
Listen, I'm all for the sex positivity and for speaking about masturbation and orgasms and for drawing really comical positions that couldn't possibly work in real life. But this just ultimately fell pretty flat for me. I don't care about the characters yet. I didn't find Suzie as cutesy snarky and Jon as adorably awesome as many others seemed to, which honestly bums me out. I don't think the art is bad, but it's certainly not my favorite.
This was just ok for me. I have two other volumes in hand that I'm going to read in case this gets better, but for now, it's pretty forgettable despite being a fairly unique concept.
2 Stars
Listen, I'm all for the sex positivity and for speaking about masturbation and orgasms and for drawing really comical positions that couldn't possibly work in real life. But this just ultimately fell pretty flat for me. I don't care about the characters yet. I didn't find Suzie as cutesy snarky and Jon as adorably awesome as many others seemed to, which honestly bums me out. I don't think the art is bad, but it's certainly not my favorite.
This was just ok for me. I have two other volumes in hand that I'm going to read in case this gets better, but for now, it's pretty forgettable despite being a fairly unique concept.
2 Stars
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