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dreaming_ace's review against another edition
5.0
oatmeal_oatmeal's review against another edition
3.5
Minor: Sexual content
captwinghead's review against another edition
3.0
This story is about 3 generations of Banks women serving in the family heist business. Yaya (the grandmother), Cora (the mother) and Celia (the granddaughter). Yaya was brought into the life by her husband, she taught her daughter and her daughter taught her daughter. However, Celia grew up with the privilege of her relatives' hard work and was able to go to nice schools and get a degree and decided not to be a thief... through criminal means anyway. Her boyfriend refers to investment bankers as legal thieves, in a way.
After Celia gets passed over for a promotion to partner, she joins in the family business. They then find another, more personal reason to pull of their biggest heist yet.
Overall, the story was pretty basic. This wasn't my favorite art, but I liked the vibe, I enjoyed the representation and the family angle made for a heist story that was more entertaining than some of the others I've seen.
ewg109's review
2.0
rbreade's review against another edition
While the art works well enough, its the writing by Gay, which I was looking forward to, that disappointed. These Southside Chicago thieves rarely use contractions, making their dialogue sound oddly stiff and formal. Worse, the dialogue is often explanatory and expository, bottoming out in a panel where the youngest of the three thieves, left alone in a target's apartment, is shown with the target's phone in her hands and is given this dialogue: "I just need to leave this code in his phone and we will be able to track Mencken, wherever he goes, whatever he does."
Why is she narrating her action when there's no one around to hear it? Answer: she's doing it for the reader's benefit, the worst sort of expository dialogue. Why didn't Gay use a thought balloon, which would have mitigated the obviousness of the exposition, though not entirely eliminated it? Or, better, a voice-over caption, carrying dialogue from an earlier, off-page scene where the trio are planning the mission? That would have been the elegant solution. So puzzling.
sparklemaia's review
2.0
zoemaja's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
mtksnd's review against another edition
2.0
usethesidedoor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0