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Too Cool To Be Forgotten (Hardcover)

by Alex Robinson (Author)

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions; illustrated edition edition (29 Jul 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1891830988
ISBN-13: 978-1891830983
Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 14.2 x 1.5 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerising, 27 Aug 2009

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I'm a bit undecided with Alex Robinson. "Box Office Poison" was really too long and rubbish while "Tricked" had at least more of a story and was about 200 pages shorter. Anyway, I read that his latest "Too Cool To Be Forgotten" was the best graphic novel of the year (2008) and saw it in the library so picked it up. It's a small book, much more so than the gargantuan paperbacks with 400-600 pages in them. It's more like 100 pages in a small hardback book with a cigarette packet cover. It's attractive and well designed.

Reading it, I have to say I enjoyed it a lot more. I'm not sure if it's because Robinson has scaled back his canvas and so the story is tighter and the characterisation more vivid but his work was much more enjoyable to read this time around. A middle aged man trying to give up cigarettes is convinced by his wife to see a hypnotherapist to give up. While hypnotised he returns to his adolescence and experiences his high school years with all the knowledge and insight from his 40 something year old self. It's an interesting experience to say the least. He no longer has confidence issues in his appearance and pays no attention to cliques and so stands out as something of an anomaly. He asks out the girl he fancied, he stands up to bullying teachers, he reassures friends he knows will find happiness in later years. It's really a positive transformative experience. There is a shadow here though. At first he imagines it's the spectre of tobacco and realises that he is at the time when he tried his first cigarette but finds out the reason behind his need for escape at this time of his life.

His father is terminally ill and dying in the house. The man never got to say goodbye to his dad and this time around gets to tell him all the things he wanted to say and spend the last few hours of his dad's life with him which in reality he hadn't done as he was hanging around outside smoking cigarettes. He realises he's been killing himself slowly because of his guilt and anger at himself for not being there when his father passed away.

There's so much that could go wrong with a story this sentimental. The writer could go overboard on the maudlin and ruin it completely but luckily Robinson's made the right choices and brought it back when he needed to and give the panels space at the right times, giving them words at the right times. The effect is devastating and what started out as an innocuous John Hughes like story becomes a touching and human tale of relationships. I'm so glad I came back to Robinson after years of avoidance after Box Office Poison which to me was bloated and unreadable, to find he's matured into a skilled and masterful comics writer/artist. Definitely one to read, I highly recommend this to the comics enthusiast and to those who are just in search of a good read.

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