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[READ: June 2023] Super Trash Clash
This graphic novel reminded me of Scott Pilgrim, but more for the drawing style than for the video game connection.
I have to admit I was a little confused in the beginning. A young woman is walking down the street and she sees a video game in the window of…a pawn shop?
I misunderstood the jump cut. Obviously, the woman is now opening a chest, but I read it as a dumpster–that she had found this video game in a dumpster. This seemed further confirmed when she plus the game in and her initials are there.
Okay, so I misunderstood, but that’s more on me, I think. Because the entire rest of the story is the flashback to her having the game in the first place.
We see Dul (for that is her name) saying she can’t go to the arcade wit her friend Misa because her mother needs her. When he mother gets home, Dul reminds her (again) that it is her birthday coming up and she really wants a new video game because she mastered Italian Bros like a thousand times. Her mother reminds her that she is not made of money. (more…)
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