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There's a whole lot I like about this book, but one I want to mention is how Thorogood uses wildly different techniques and art styles to create a mood or represent a thematic element. Her usage of line, space and color expertly conveys her ideas, no matter how non-traditional she may get. Everyone's journey with depression is unique, and Thorogood is able to use the medium of comics to craft a very personal tale about her own brand of mental illness.

I have a ton of thoughts and feelings about this book, but overall it's an excellent comic about creating your own meaning both in art and in life. I'm excited to follow Zoe's career!

The pacing of these past two volumes are a bit slower than the first two, and that may make them feel “boring-er” to some readers, but this is where the themes of the book start showing through.

It's very interesting revisiting these comics after such a long hiatus. The new Netflix series has reignited The Discourse around this series, and it's always interesting/enlightening/baffling to see what everyone gets from Scott Pilgrim. It's impossible for me to accurately review something so influential to my own tastes, and maybe all of the the hijinks and wackiness obfuscates any deeper reading into the story, but Scott Pilgrim always seemed more than just nerdy references. This entire series is ostensibly about coming to terms with that fact that all relationships come with pre-existing baggage. Scott & Ramona come to realize they hurt others in the same way they've been hurt, and they only grow as characters once they attempt to atone for their sins.

I know media literacy is dead, but a story about a protagonist who must, “conquer someone else's evil exes before being allowed to date them” seems pretty blunt as far as metaphors go.

A good primer on how the Constitution can interfere with modern governance.

Each section starts with a real world example of a problem caused or exasperated by the Constitution, a flashback to what problems our founding fathers intended to address when writing that part, and then ways we have dealt with those problems throughout the history of our country.

I don't think the graphic novel format really helps with the facts presented here, it's still pretty dense and wordy, but worth reading, especially for target audience.

I remember years ago trying to get into Pratchett after finishing Good Omens so I picked up the first book in the Discworld series, The Colour of Magic. I wasn't really feeling it so I gave up, then every Terry Pratchett fan told me nobody should start with the first book of the Discworld series because it's probably the worst book in the series and isn't really indicative of why it resonates with so many people. After reading Guards, Guards, I'm inclined to agree.