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267th out of 2,590 books
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Zero Girl (Zero Girl #1)
by
Sam Kieth
A wild, quirky, and truly original project that delighted fans of Sam Kieth's previous work on The Maxx, "Zero Girl" is the story of a high-school misfit coming of age. Young Amy Smootster, weirdness magnet that she is, has never been the most popular girl in school. She can speak to insects and believes that circles are good and squares evil. Awkward and different, she do...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
November 1st 2001
by Wildstorm
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A lady friend recommended this to me, so I checked it out. Sam Keith is one of my favorite comic book artists/writer, and I loved The Maxx, so I figured I couldn't go wrong. Fortunately, I was right!
This comic, while short, is crammed with all of the wild artwork, erratic paneling, and a surreal plot twists that I have come to expect from Kieth's warped mind. The main character, Amy, is a strange loner, not unlike Julie in The Maxx, and I think I can understand why my lady friend (ok, let's just...more
This comic, while short, is crammed with all of the wild artwork, erratic paneling, and a surreal plot twists that I have come to expect from Kieth's warped mind. The main character, Amy, is a strange loner, not unlike Julie in The Maxx, and I think I can understand why my lady friend (ok, let's just...more
I actually almost cried at the end of book 5, it was like reading my autobiography. When I was 15 like Amy, I was picked on and tormented at school as well and turned to my English teacher with whom I formed a close bond with, I hung around him for 3 years, I was crazy about him and he always kept it professional ,I stuck around till I turned 18 and finally and I finally asked out....and he turned me down, and that's exactly what he should have done and he did, I loved him but I had no idea what...more
As a Sam Kieth fan, it came as no surprise that my friends would get me the first issues of this comic as a gift---and it delivered! It's a wildly offbeat characterization of every outsider teen. Portraying enemies as squares and circle shapes as friendly, only validates, in my mind, the uniqueness that is Sam Kieth's imagination. While exploring very real and adult topics of peer pressure, unrequited love, and the inner workings of the teenage brain, Kieth successfully translates Amy Smootser's...more
Feb 16, 2011
Phillip Goodman
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truly wonderfully weird wacky and awesome, but not in any obvious way, surreal dark great, brilliant metaphorical reflection of teen high school life, and of the idea of turning you fears and that which makes you different into your greatest strength, but enough warbling, zero girl is probably my favorite non mainstream super character, and that's all i actually set out to say............oh and i love sam kieth.
The art was great. The story was... creative, and clever. But I have an ironclad disgust when it comes to teacher/student love stories, which I didn't realize this was when I picked it up. That, combined with the weird pacing, knocks this book down firmly into the two-star category.
This is a tough one. I really like Sam Kieth. I love how rough the artwork is, but there are some huge plot holes in this that take me out of the story. I mean, it still works because it's your typical Sam Kieth fantasy world, but it could've been something really special.
Nov 05, 2009
lucy by the sea
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1 of 5 stars
Shelves:
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graphic-novels-and-comics
I started reading this on the bus and it made me nauseous. Then on the train, still nauseous. Then at home....still nauseous. The drawing style is too all over the show and the stroy line didn't keep me engaged. Ick.
As cryptic, bizarre, and dense as Keith can be (and I mean absolutely nothing disparaging by using those adjectives), his stuff always resonates with me. This one quite particularly.
I was told that I had read this years ago and hated it. Sometimes I do that. I loved it this time. Even the new one after it, based on her daughter, is really good. Sam Kieth, I love you.
amazing book with a kick ass female character and a great story of a jaded high school student with a bizarre power, and a potato bug names Carl Jung.
I had high hopes when I started reading this; the first issue of it was a really good lead-in. While the story was interesting enough in itself, I just found it pointless, to be subjective. Everything felt incredibly rushed and the side story with her and the teacher - just dull.
Read these comics when I was in high school. Absolutely loved it and identified with it wholeheartedly. Want to read it again.
very hip and totally enjoyable...emotional lessons are subtle but important.
my favorite artist and probably my faovirte comic.
Beautiful to look at. Disappointing to read.
Dialogue was too contrived. Artwork was fun though.
What nonsense.
Picked this up when a local comics shop had a sale. It's ok. The hot-for-teacher theme seemed to come out of nowhere, and was an unconvincing motivation. Stroyline aside, though, the drawing/inking/color's fun. I love how her lower body gets cartoonish while her face is in sharp relief.
Amy Smooster's a great character for those drawn to powerful, awkward, quirky geek nymphets. The unexpected dashes of horror enlivened this teen-angsty comic. Definitely one of those books that makes you wonder how the author came up with the idea for the story.
Sam Kieth has this uncanny ability to write like a girl. It is awesome. For any girl who has ever felt outcast, then accepted, then rejected.
Story is pretty good, but art is incredible. Hands down, Sam Keith does the best paneling I've ever seen.
from the art to the writing, this is radical.
May 08, 2013
Alaina
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May 06, 2013
Joyce
marked it as to-read
Apr 30, 2013
I AM SHER LOCKED
marked it as to-read
Apr 29, 2013
Iza
marked it as to-read
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Kieth first came to prominence in 1984 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage, his brushwork adding fluidity and texture to the broad strokes of Wagner's early work at Comico Comics. In 1989, he drew the first five issues of writer Neil Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman, but felt his style was unsuited to the book (specifically saying that he "felt like Jimi Hendrix in The Beatles") and left, han...more
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Jun 16, 2009 07:21pm