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    <body><![CDATA[Incredibly lame, autobiographical graphic novel about a chode's infatuation with a really ugly girl.  Dude, if everyone knows you're the main character, at least make the girl you're pining for hot.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This odd little autobiographical book appeared during an odd little time in U.S. comics. The Art Spiegelman modernist gang was vying for respectability, and had good reviews and production values, but hadn't yet crossbred with the last wave of undergrounds to form today's small-press scene. Superher...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6280566">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[David Chelsea in love is apparently an idiot.  I didn't like a single character in this memoir.  People behaved badly and treated each other poorly.  And the story is pretty dull.  On the up side, there was a fair amount of nudity and sex, always a plus.  Chelsea also has some very interesting full-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56126778">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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