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An entirely new collection from Dave, all in glorious (and that word certainly applies in this case) color.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, you needed more than that?\u00c2\u00a0 OK, that’s only fair.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of awkward coming of age stories, all told in a way that makes this collection accessible to teenagers.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least I think it would, I have no idea what goes on in the minds of teenagers right now.\u00c2\u00a0 First up is Motorbikes, the story of a young man who isn’t well thought of by his mother or seemingly anybody else, as he tries to take care of his mother after she has an accident while also trying to get with the attractive nurse who is staying with them.\u00c2\u00a0 Next is Mall Chicks, where a young woman gets very poor advice about how to attract boys and the practical trouble involved.\u00c2\u00a0 Dirtbags is the story at the center of the book, telling the tale of a young woman playing tennis and a young man who watches her a little too intently every day.\u00c2\u00a0 What, you thought that was it for the book just because that’s all the stories in the title?\u00c2\u00a0 Hell no!\u00c2\u00a0 The Party is up next, showing a high school party, what the party thrower had wanted to happen and what actually does happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s That’s My Baby, a heartbreaker of a story about a young man who gets a young woman pregnant and is confronted by her intention of giving the baby up for adoption to anyone but him.\u00c2\u00a0 Dave was made for color comics and his stuff has never looked better than here.\u00c2\u00a0 You’d think that “angst-ridden” only dealt with one or two facial expressions, but you’d be wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 I swear that Dave must have stopped his growth in high school, as he has the unerring ability to portray exactly what these poor kids are going through just by the looks on their faces.\u00c2\u00a0 This is self-published, goes for $20 with postage and is quite possibly the best thing he’s ever done.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I may have said that with a few other things on this page too, but it’s certainly the best full color graphic novel he’s done.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless there’s one I missed out there somewhere… $20<\/p>\n

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Website Dirtbags, Mallchicks & Motorbikes An entirely new collection from Dave, all in glorious (and that word certainly applies in this case) color.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, you needed more than that?\u00c2\u00a0 OK, that’s only fair.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of awkward coming of age stories, all told in a way that makes this collection accessible to teenagers.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2713,1423,2984],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dave-kiersh","tag-dirtbags","tag-mallchicks-motorbikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10416,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions\/10416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}