Questions About Incredible Doom: A Graphic Novel – A Poignant Young Adult Story of Connection and First Love in the Early Internet Era

by Matthew Bogart (Goodreads Author)

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what kind of LGBT content is there in this work?

Jessamyn West There are a few teen characters who are LGBT with only very minor physical contact (hand touching) occurring during the story.

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Do you think that the title and the front cover matches with the book? Why or why not?

Josh Rhodes The title, sure. Titles can be more than a little abstract before they start to seem incongruous. I kinda like the title’s ambiguity - "incredible" is…moreThe title, sure. Titles can be more than a little abstract before they start to seem incongruous. I kinda like the title’s ambiguity - "incredible" is usually used to mean "amazing" or "extreme" but the original meaning is "hard to believe.” And “doom” has the obvious “dread, despair and devastation” connotations (and there is a lot of dread in this story, particularly with poor Allison’s abusive nutjob father) but it also means “fate.” So the title can be read as “Extreme Devastation” or “A Fate I Can Scarcely Believe.”

The cover, not really. It's one of those covers that doesn’t really tell you anything. Except, I guess, that the story is set in the suburbs, that there are still phone lines everywhere (so that kind of fits in with the “early internet” thing) and, I guess that it shows dawn could mean that it’s the start of the story (I finally noticed that this is “vol 1” which is cool cuz the only complaint I had was that I wanted to know more of what happened next) or just that it’s concerned with things happening at strange times few are up and about.

So…yeah, the title is fine, though ambiguous enough that combined with the cover it tells you almost nothing about what the book’s gonna be about; oh well.(less)

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