mika's review of Shortcomings
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
as an artist, i thought it was great. there were some really beautifully, poignantly rendered frame-sequences, like the ending and the scene where Ben goes back to the parking lot after taking his girlfriend to the airport. the characters were well-developed and believable too, although i had a hard time believing such a surly stupid Ben would ever have seduced beautiful Miko (what a stereotypical name btw - it means "priestess" in Japanese - no one who knows any Japanese would name their kid "Miko" unless they were trying to be off-beat). I did really like the story - but Ben was just so annoying and un-redeamable that it just got tedious at times. as a reader, i don't like tedious things. apparently there are people who like reading tedious things - this book got rave reviews. i had read an interview with Tomine in a comic mag and he was saying that he had got a lot of scathing feedback from fans accusing him of identifying with his main character, Ben. He said th...more
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