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"Even if the genre existed before 1994, 'slacker' was totally defined by Clerks and its stamp seems to be found everywhere. Or maybe it's just that everyone watches the same movies. This basically plays out like an updated Clerks and/or Mallrats, which a bunch of young men who work menial jobs getting in trouble with some of the local color and having wacky hijinks. They even have their own Jay and Silent Bob.

It's not a complete cut-and-paste job; the female characters have a bigger presence in the book, and we definitely get a 'tour of the town' which reminds me of say, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (though this book predates the film but not the novel). But there are some fuzzy spots show more here and there. The characters seem to have just graduated high school, and none seem to have college plans, but one of them has his own apartment. Maybe I just don't understand Connecticut that way.

Despite the name, the book has some, but not a lot of video game references in it. It's not dense in the way Scott Pilgrim is. That's good in that the book won't date as much, but at the same time, the cover promised something the interior doesn't deliver.

That all said, I really enjoyed the book. I just wish that comics creators would stop presenting geek comedies that are really just Clerks Lite." show less

I like this book despite myself. It's not doing anything that a million movies haven't already done, where the teenagers have a crazy day of hijinks, but it's got a sense of fun to it that I really appreciate.

This was okay. Read a little like geeks slapping themselves on the back for being geeks and laughing at those that laugh at them. That's probably good for teen geeks, but a little overly simplistic in real life - could have used some slightly more nuanced character definition. But that would have made it a different book, and this one is fun enough. The art was pleasing, but wasn't quite up to the big scenes.

Meh. Characters were kind of jerks and it didn't grab me at all.

It's trying to be Clerks and Scott Pilgrim as someone else mentioned in their review, but it abjectly fails at both.

So many elements here--post-high-school angst, girl troubles, bully troubles, lack of direction, video-game geekdom, a dog who thinks only of pooping and a cat who may be possessed by the devil. It's quick and fun but not particularly lasting.

I am so not the target audience for this graphic novel. The protagonists are kind of cute, but only because it's not scratch'n'sniff. Slacker boys adrift between adolescence and whatever comes next (they certainly haven't a clue) engage in stupid shenanigans and end up with the hawt girls despite their idiocy.

I'm passing this on to my kids to see if it's just that I'm too old for this, or if it's as bad as I think it is.

A day in the life of three teenage boys. Video games, pranking, girls, battles with the football team and a concert. What could be better?