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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Because kids being eaten by monsters is COOL, dagnit., 8 April 2003
Ah, Courtney Crumrin. The one comic out there that makes me recall my childhood- and by childhood, I mean all the books I read as a child by Robin Jarvis, Roald Dahl et al which involved humans being killed, horrific beasties, massive amounts of gothic darkness and the occassional primordial god. Courtney Crumrin is a pre-teen outcast with massive amounts of cynicism, loathing for her parents & schoolmates, and a keen interest in black magic- basically, the Anti-Potter. And she makes for a brilliant protaganist, who stands up for our rights to be loners & weirdos, and tears down the artifical, social-climbing crapness of the children's world with extreme prejudice. And, of course, there's the wonderfully designed Night Things, ranging from aloof sentient cats to the Cockney-accented child eating Butterworm. It's a perfect all-ages book, excepting the once-a-chapter use of the phrase "Oh bugger". But don't let the swearing stop you buying this, coz your kids know worse ones _anyway_. And besides, what anti-social little bugger wouldn't want a protaganist who, in her own words, is "rude, bad-tempered and basically I don't like people"?
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