YEAH, IT IS! REVIEW

[Joel Phillips]

<a href="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/covers/ind/yeahitis.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/covers/ind/yeahitist.jpg" align=left alt="Yeah, It Is!"></a>Reviewer: Joel Phillips
Quick Rating: Average

Story and Art By: Leslie Anne MacKenzie Stein
Published By: Alternative Comics


Yeah, It Is! is a bizarre little one-shot, unlike anything else I’ve read. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s a true thing.

I usually start with the story, but I want to begin this review with the art. Yeah, It Is! utilizes an unusual art style which appears to be made using paper cut-outs. I’m not sure if this is the actual way this was made or if it was just made to look that way, but it’s a different look to be sure. I think that the art suits the story, since it looks like a grown-up approach to a child-like style. That’s about the only way I can describe this entire piece.

The story follows a girl whose best friend moves away. In the course of her unhappiness at the current situation, the girl wanders around an unusual café, gets her fortune told, meets Jim Morrison and gets a free T-shirt.

I have a hard time reviewing these kinds of stories because there’s not much I can tell you about them. There’s no real plot at work for me to discuss because this is a slice of life piece, a series of vignettes that explore the character’s mood rather than advancing some particular narrative thread.

While I enjoyed this story, it’s quite brief. It’s an amusing enough little trip to follow, and it does manage to be endearingly wacky in places, but it’s a bit too pricy for what it is, and it’s not the kind of thing you’d read more than once.

This works pretty well as a nice diversion, or as a work of well-crafted graphic art. But it’s not really a story per se, and that hurts it some. Worth reading? Yes. Worth buying? Only if you’ve got the money to spend, but I wouldn’t bump anything from my pull list for it.


ART:
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STORY:
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OVERALL:
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[Anand Khatri]

This sounds interesting, but I won't go out of my way to check this out though.

btw...Great Review! :D

[devin]

According to Leslie Stein's little bio at serializer (http://www.serializer.net/series.php?name=yeahitis&view=current), the comic is made out of construction paper. You can also view one or two pages a week of Yeah, it is! for free at Serializer.