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Bezig met laden... A Friendly Game (editie 2010)door Lindsay Hornsby (Auteur), Jose Pimienta (Artist)
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Friends play many kinds of games with each other: cops and robbers,checkers, tag. The best of friends will make up their own games. Todd andKevin's friendship is built on such a game. However, the rules and premiseare far from the typical childhood games. A dispute amongst the two splits theminto very different directions: one sees the game for the cruel act that it is,while the other decides it must move to the next level. Imagine NoCountry for Old Men crossed with Lord of the Flies, or even imagine if Johnnythe Homicidal Maniac were once a little kid. There you have a FriendlyGame. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It's a simple story that follows its plot well: the "game" is to kill animals, first mice, then later bigger things. And when others find out and threaten to ruin the game, there's a pretty easy remedy for that ("No more small stuff"). But when Kevin, the kid who actually started the game, wants to back out, he finds he's in a little too deep.
But I like stories with a solid ending, and that's where this one fails. The story does come to a terrifying but mostly predictable climax, but there's no real resolution for these characters. We really never find out why Todd, the ultra-psychotic best friend, becomes so violent -- which, in a way, is very realistic, but that would have made for a better storyline than just panels of unmitigated gore (thankfully, it's a black and white graphic novel).
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LT Haiku:
A friendly game turns
Into something evil and
Maybe unending. ( )