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A review by amalelmohtar
The Poor Bastard by Joe Matt
4.0
"I really want you to read this book but I'm convinced you'll hate it from the first page!" said my Glaswegian, eyes glinting with a barely concealed desire to see me despise this book.
It's pretty freakin' excellent in how relentlessly awful Joe Matt's character is, and how unflinchingly (and even, dare I say, eagerly) that awfulness is displayed. It's like a tremendously heavy-handed Shortcomings where the heavy-handedness is its own art form, and the approach to its realism is as deliberately stylised and stunted as the art.
It's pretty freakin' excellent in how relentlessly awful Joe Matt's character is, and how unflinchingly (and even, dare I say, eagerly) that awfulness is displayed. It's like a tremendously heavy-handed Shortcomings where the heavy-handedness is its own art form, and the approach to its realism is as deliberately stylised and stunted as the art.