![]() ![]() He senses distance between his parents he loathes his abusive uncle and with a new student boarder, April, moving into the basement and taking up more and more of his mother’s time, Adam senses a new distance between himself and his mother. He experiences self-doubt and hatred (inner and outer directed) about all of this, and he spends his time thinking, thinking, smoking, thinking. His family life is ordinary but strained. Adam’s a queer teen navigating the savagery of high school, closeted and trying hard to maintain his place in his tribe of cool-but-disaffected youth. Similarly, Big Kids is about adolescence as total body and mind transformation, a species transplantation more than simple vertical growth and functional maturation-and it’s more interested in how that feels than what its consequences are. Ant Colony is about an actual ant colony but more akin to the way Kafka’s Metamorphosis is about a cockroach than the way the Disney cartoon Antz is about ants. ![]() ![]() It’s not as much bent on exploring the consequences of these fantastical elements to the fullest the premise-the core difference from our world-is instead meant to be jarring, funny, and an excellent hinge for everything else the cartoonist is interesting in doing. Like a lot of Deforge’s work, Big Kids exists in a world that’s slightly strange, as far as the rules of science go. The new graphic novel from Michael Deforge, his first since Ant Colony, is a queer coming of age story with a fantastical, metaphysical edge. ![]()
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