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Emily the Strange #1: The Boring Issue Kindle & comiXology

by Brian Brooks (Author), Jessica Gruner (Author), Rob Reger (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 32 ratings

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For years, pop-culture cultists have revered and adored a mysterious, brooding thirteen-year-old girl named Emily the Strange. Nobody knows much about the young girl with a porcelain face and huge eyes framed by black bangs, and her ever-present brood of black cats only adds to the intriguebut that hasn't stopped a generation of rabid fans from letting Emily put her spell upon them. Now, for the first time ever, Emily fans will be welcomed into her dark and, well, strange worlda place where kitty friends talk, the ghosts of famous weirdoes come out to play, reality is never quite what it seems, andabove allanyone who's ever been considered a little "strange" herself will be made to feel right at home. Dark Horse Comics and the creative minds behind Cosmic Debris are thrilled to present the first-ever Emily comic books, published as deluxe single issues with all-new stories and art. This issue features forty-eight pages of black, white, and red art (with the occasional outburst of full-color freak-outs!), illustrating a wacky range of Emily stories. Make sure to check out Emily's exclusive interview with punk-rock legends **The Damned**!

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Gr. 9-12. In this graphic novel, Emily, a brooding girl in black with a posse of sinister cats, takes on the issue of boredom. Six short interludes depict her tackling tedium in venues such as the school lunchroom, where she spices things up with Strange Sauce, and in the graveyard with her friends. The fun doesn't stop there, as between vignettes Emily gives readers helpful hints on curing boredom at home, including "Thirteen Uses for Wire Hangers." The surface packaging seems targeted to a young crowd, but Emily's sharp, flippant humor will be best appreciated by older teens. With artwork in stark black, white, and red, and written in almost stream-of-consciousness style, this comic will appeal to the angst-ridden outsider in many teens. Librarians will want to deep-six the book's two pages of stickers. Tina Coleman
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Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01668BVIO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse (October 6, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 31656 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 47 pages

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Brian is an artist and lives in Oakland, California.
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Rob Reger has grown Emily the Strange from an image on a few skateboards and T-shirts to an international fashion brand and publishing phenomenon. He lives in the Bay Area.
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Muse

Respect the Bored Chairman!

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013

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Emily got it right - boring can really push your imagination in all kinds of directions - from one extreme to another.

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015

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My daughter likes it.

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2016

as promised

had creases in new first edition

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2011

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First one had creases, cheerfully replaced by Amazon. Second one not in pristine condition either. Kept them anyway to go with my son's Epiphone Emily guitar.(Guitar Rocks !!!!!!)

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2014

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I don't think this is even good for a kids book. I am trying to find someone to give it away to now.

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wiredweird

More little girls should be so strange

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2006

OK. She's strange. You heard that part. That means people look at her and don't like what they see.

I see a young lady who is no slave to fashion, except her own. She know that boredom is a self-inflicted injury, and "Bored to Death" shows that she knows how to stop it. She is patient, as we see in "Grow'n Up." She is not just creative, but has control of the creative process, as shown in "13 More Uses for Wire Hangers" and "Head in the Clouds." She has mastery of many expressive media, including gardening, written and spoken word, wire sculpture, culinary arts, taxidermy, and fine hallucinogens - or whatever is in that Strange Sauce.

Emily, I wish all power to you and to your imagination. And to your legal defense team, to the mental health workers that have not yet crumpled, and to the survivors among your cohort. They will each remember you to their dying day.

And on it, no matter how distant or horrific. And possibly past it.

//wiredweird

PS: The art here is a bit raw: black and white with red, solid and saturated, with a little grey or brown to soften some parts - not that raw is a bad thing. It's what you might have seen if Edward Gorey or Gomez Addams had ever opened that last closet door and spilled the ketchup. It is also (and I don't like this part) fairly blatant in its attempts to scrape a few extra drachmae out tweenage fanclubbers. The rest is good, in a twisted but healthy appeal to the otherwise disaffected in our world, and lord knows our world makes bunches of them.

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Adela C.

Not What I Expected

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2012

As much as I love the Emily the Strange books, I couldn't seem to enjoy this comic book. The title pretty much says it all: it was simply boring.
While I was reading this issue, I constantly had the feeling that everything was random! Sincerely, I was expecting a lot more from this comic book, especially since the series was so interesting and full of unique ideas...
One thing I liked was the graphic: nothing to criticise here, except the "Can't aford to be bored" story, which I found impossible to understand due to its weird character design.
There were a few short stories that I enjoyed, simply because they were resembling the original books' style.
The reason why I can't give this comic more than 2 stars is that I found it to be nothing special. Judging by the ratings of the second issue, I assume that it is better than this one, and I will definitely give it a try, just to make sure I am not missing something good. I will then decide if I am going to read the rest of the issues or not.

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