{"id":14303,"date":"2010-05-03T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14303"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:24","slug":"enrico-robin-life-of-vice-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14303","title":{"rendered":"Enrico, Robin – Life of Vice #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Life of Vice #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin is taking a break from the Jam in the Band series to flesh out one of the characters from that series (and change up the style a bit, as he was getting sick of the documentary style of making comics): Becky Vice.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve only the first of the two books out (so far) from that series, but she didn’t ring any bells for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I also read it a couple of years ago, and the chances of me remembering a side character from that among all the comics I read is slim indeed.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the first book of this series is all told as flashbacks, as Becky Vice is being interviewed by a college reporter on their way to her hosting the American Pornography Awards (quite possibly not a real thing).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s clear from the opening panel that Robin is going in a bit of a different direction, as it’s a clear homage to the opening scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (by Hunter… aw, screw you if you don’t know about that book).\u00c2\u00a0 Robin has also decided to take away the panels, which really opens up the feeling of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 The interviewer quickly learns that the best way to get Becky to open up about herself is for her to open up about HER life, and this issue details the childhood of Becky, how she got out of a repressive (but loving) childhood, her early days drinking in trailer parks, and how she eventually got her band started.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s music playing constantly during these stories (as the whole thing takes place in the car as they’re going to the awards show), so feel free to award yourself some bonus cool points if you can guess the songs.\u00c2\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Robin took the Gonzo style of reporting and made it his own, which is something many people have tried over the years and so very few of them have succeeded.\u00c2\u00a0 He explains this at the end so it feels like cheating, but this is\u00c2\u00a0 not thinly veiled autobio, and that was very clear even before his afterward.\u00c2\u00a0 And I thought that picture of Becky detailing all her injuries looked an awful lot like the back cover for Have A Nice Day by Mick Foley!\u00c2\u00a0 He took interviews (known to him as “drunken conversations”) and built them up into a believable and realistic life story for two young women.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s another issue that he sent along with this, so I’ll get an even clearer picture of this series, but there is certainly not a thing wrong with this first issue.\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n

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