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Third and final instalment
of the psycho-political romance by Vadot and Guéret.
Ultimately, it’s an
original tale on several
levels. Although the story concentrates on Simon and
Lisa’s psychological
development, the political
metaphor remains profound. While this parallelism is
sometimes difficult
for the reader to follow the
series is undeniably worth the effort.
(Le Fantastique.com)
This album is so masterful that it is indeed a mature
work.
(Sceneario.com)
This conclusion of a really zany romantic comedy is
steeped in an admirable dreamlike quality.
The authors obviously take
great pleasure in exploiting the classic conventions of
graphic novels,
while inventing their own
graphic and narrative style. Reread this trilogy - you
won't have got to the
bottom of it the first time
round!
(L'Echo du Centre)
This incredibly efficient third album is dominated by
the fact that the authors never allow their imagination
to be overtaken by fantasy:
the tribulations of the Glonek world are only the outer
casing of a real
psycho-drama, the
hallucinogenic cherry which cleverly crowns its creation.
(Bédéka)
You have get past the illustrations and the initially
confusing subject of Gerry Geronimo and just read
it.
Right from the first few
pages you discover that this is a rich and ambitious
series. After one album,
it’s straight back to the
bookshop to buy the others...
(ActualBD.com)
One cannot avoid the fact that the Gerry Geronimo
series is deeply disturbing. Though the start of all
of this is the end of a
pretty ordinary love affair, the strange fantasies of
the scenario are very original.
Despite a perfectly
constructed and precise plot, the parallel presentation
of romantic conflict and the
political aspect require a
considerable power of concentration, even for adults.
(ToutenBD.com)
This third volume does away with any previously
expressed criticism and confirms that Gerry Geronimo
is indeed a completely
atypical series which deserves its place in any
respectable graphic novel
collection. It is a perfect
fusion of the freedom enjoyed by the creators of graphic
novels and reality as
it is imposed on us by our
own psyche. Better than any pile of self analysis
magazines, Gerry is
melting-pot of the questions
and (sometimes) answers which engulf us during certain
momentous events
in our own lives: first
love, love at first sight, breaking up, etc... Never
before have Freudian topics been
so well (and lucidly)
illustrated; never before has human psychology been
scrutinised in a graphic novel
with such tenderness and
foresight. Thank you.
(BDparadiso.com)
The genius of Guéret and Vadot is to have personified
these four concepts - Reason, Imagination,
Subconscious and Depression
- and to provide them with a veritable stage where,
while having a quiet
laugh at themselves, they
can enact the political life of a democratic state
tortured by a huge internal
crisis as it confronts the
advance of depression, an extraordinary allegory of a
xenophobic party.
(BD Gest.com)
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