Book Review: Box Office Poison
Jan 25th, 2008 by jeremy
Book 4 in the 52 books in 52 weeks.
Box Office Poison is a monster, end even though it’s a graphic novel, 600 pages is still an enormous story. Alex Robinson’s story is about a group of twenty-something friends and how their lives intersect with each other. Sherman drams of being a writer but works in a local bookstore. His best friend Ed wants to crate comics. Jane, Stephen, Irving Flavor, and Sherman’s girlfriend round out the cast. Each of the characters has a full story and is fun to follow through the book.
There isn’t anything extraordinary about the art. It’s all black and white, but conveys the emotions of the characters well. Robinson’s art style gets better as he goes along. You can tell it was originally in issue form, the later parts of the book look cleaner. The story stays interesting but realistic, it follows two main storylines. Sherman’s relationship with his girlfriend, and Irving’s fight to get credit for a comic book he created.
This is one of the best graphics novels I’ve ever read. It’s serious, it keeps things interesting and it’s real. Also because it’s a comic without superheroes or villians wearing tights, I’d recommend it to anyone that doesn’t normally like comics.
Rating B+
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