Rob Kelly

true-life tales from the spinner rack

Hey kids, comics!

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

The last couple of nights this collection of essays has served as my bedtime reading. The theme is childhood recollections of comic books and their impact on the lives of the essayists. Some of them were good and cute. Some of them terribly written endless listings of titles with no real content. One was a good meditation from a person of color on black characters and writers in comic books. Then last night, suddenly, I was sucker punched by one of the essays. It started with a single stoic tear and eyes welling up. As I kept reading it turned into full-on wrenching sobs. That one essay is worth the price of the book alone. I won't reveal which one, in the hopes that others might have that same powerful response.

Hey kids, comics! true-life tales from the spinner rack

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