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domino_blue (domino_blue) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-28 14:11:00

Current location:	Virginia
Current mood:	with mild case of confusion
Current music:	Earthbound OST
Entry tags:	creator: grant morrison, creator: philip bond, publisher: dc comics

Becase we all need some anarchy in our lives.
Hello I was going to post the very excellent future comic Spider-man 2099 but because it's written by a certain author who I still love despite the fallout of the last community, I decided to post this Grant Morrison classic Kill your Boyfriend.

First Let's meet our Narrator

Quite the meek thing wouldn't you say?

After having a tiff with her Parents she decides to go out one night when she run's into the local bad boy.

After boozing around for a while they decide to go to her boyfriend's house.

And that is the beginning of an delightful adventure where our two protagonist find love, understanding, and acceptance. Also if you tell I'm lying through my teeth before this sentence you win a cookie. This is a great Graphic novel that is very funny, that, while you can find some symbolism in it you can turn your mind off and read just because it's just so fun. The graphic novel is out there somewhere and it only cost 5 bucks so go get it if you want to find out what happens next.

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	seriousfic 2009-07-28 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	It kinda feels like it's building up to a moral of "hey, don't be a dick for no reason and kill people," which is one of those morals that doesn't really need to be a moral? Plus, I liked Heathers the first time I saw it. it was less obnoxious. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	psycheluna 2009-07-29 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	Hahaha. Oh that isn't the moral of the story AT ALL. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlbarnett 2009-07-28 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	I've never understood why people feel the need to tell these stories. (Reply to this) (Thread)

stolisomancer
2009-07-28 08:17 pm UTC (link)

You probably know people like this, although you may not be close enough to them to know it.

Some are born into such circumstances, where their entire lives are bound to follow a predetermined pattern from the moment of birth: stultifying quasi-education followed by an unsatisfying career and then an equally unsatisfying marriage. They don't have the talent or money or imagination to break that cycle, but they're aware the cycle exists and that they're caught within it. They have no way out.

Kill Your Boyfriend works as escapist fiction, of a girl who breaks that cycle by embracing anarchy; as a deconstruction of that kind of story, owing to how self-aware she is; as a morality play, since it does not end well on any level, and since the girl learns nothing from it; or as simple cultural satire, where the adults are so intellectually and emotionally diminished by their own lives that they're almost unable to react to anything that happens. It's nihilistic, yeah, but it's got a purpose.

	merseybeatler 2009-07-28 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Lemme guess. He's NOT her imaginary second personality? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	stig 2009-07-28 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	Imagine bad-boy without any hair, and a Scottish accent. (Reply to this) (Thread)