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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I just didn't get what this one was about, really. What's the deal with all the comas? (  ) infogirl | Sep 23, 2009 |  Urban legends, teenage frustrations and love relationships are components which mature teenage readers will find compelling in this surrealistic graphic novel. Frustrated with the boring, mundane life of his suburban community, Miguel manages to induce himself into a comma for a year. Once awoken, Miguel (whose movements then become much slower, hence his nickname 'Sloth') resumes his love relationship with Lita. Things begin to get a bit interesting when Miguel, Lita and their fellow band-member, Romeo, investigate the truth behind the eerie urban legend of the nearby lemon orchard. Mid-story, the three characters completely switch roles and we see their personalities from different perspectives. The story is littered with profanities which may offend some readers. (  ) mschwander | Jul 25, 2007 | In my previous exposure to the work of the Hernandez brothers in Love and Rockets, I always found myself enjoying the work of Jaime Hernandez more than that of his brother Gilbert. While I still count myself as a huge fan of Jaime's Maggie and Hoppie stories, I have to admit that Sloth is the first thing I've seen from Gilbert that makes me begin to wonder if I've been underrating his work all these years. Sloth is completely removed from the characters and locale of Palomar, the Latin American town that has featured in so many of Gilbert's previous works. Perhaps it's that complete divorce from familiar scenarios that helps to make Sloth seem like something fresh and new from Gilbert's pen. Whatever it is, Sloth is a fascinating work, exploring an unusual response by a group of teenagers to the negative stimuli of their unkind environment. Gilbert's unadorned artwork and fluid storytelling are wholly up to the task of telling this strange story, and while I can't pretend to say that I fully understand everything that transpires within this tale, I'm intrigued enough to have read the whole thing through twice already, and don't doubt that I'll be reading it at least once more. There's a certain magic at work in Sloth that will keep me coming back to this compelling narrative. (  ) dr_zirk | Apr 23, 2007 | aahlvers | Sep 11, 2006 | 
 It's always astounded me that Gilbert Hernandez doesn't enjoy the same sort of respect and acclamation that, say, Chris Ware or Art Spiegelman take for granted. He's a more expressive cartoonist than ware, a far better storyteller than Spiegelman, and both his productivity and command of the comics language equal that of either of them. Sloth’s odd, elliptical narrative shape becomes an aching metaphor for the way passion refuses to fit life—the way it leaves a remainder, a residue of could’ve-been.
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