Customer Reviews

Tells a good story while poking fun at art, journalism, etc. - By: , 28 Aug 1996
Bishop takes a cast of highly improbably characters who are suspiciously like people you know & tells a wonderfully entertaining & human story about the nature of heroism & duty. Along the way he skewers art, art critics, comic books, journalism, rock/alternative music, teenage angst, & almost anything else that wanders by. It's damned hard to write a satire without turning the characters into caricatures, but Bishop keeps all his people three-dimensional & (mostly) likeable even at their worst. I'm most impressed with what Bishop does with Geiger himself. Geiger starts as a character richin artistic depth but one- dimensional as a person. He ends up as a one-dimensional comic book character who's much deeper as a person. An impressive inversion, & an impressive work to pull off.