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Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic


Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic

Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic back

Barnaby Legg, Jim McCarthy & Flameboy

Price:  £8.24

Page 45 Review by Stephen

I know that it's wrong to dismiss a book without reading it but this one just begs for it. The cover uses the Marvel/DC depiction of grief. You know, when Superman is cradling his dead sister or any superhero is shown crying over the loss of a friend, it's over the top, amplified to match the tone of the other emotions well you get the same thing here. On the cover, Kurt has wings (excessive Red Bull consumption?), kneeling in a pool of his own tears. How do we read this? Even in heaven he's suffering for us? Inside the colourist has turned the yellow up to eleven, the artist has half a dozen facial expressions and good is good and bad is bad. Tobi Vail from Bikini Kill has turned into Vampirella. Or maybe that's an allegory. Duh. Head hurting now.

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