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The Cherry Collection #2
Cherry Collection, Volume II
Collects original issues of Cherry Comics #'s 4, 5, 6, the pioneering adults only underground comic.
- GenresGraphic Novels
128 pages, Paperback
First published March 28, 1994
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March 12, 2019
That was just as fun as I thought it would be!
I remember her vaguely from childhood but never knew anything other that what she looked like so this was spiritually cathartic. Ya knoag?
It's pure "gentleman's" humor and DOES entertain above chest-level. Welz created quite a malleable ditz to insert into whatever he wanted to make fun of.
I like Ellie Dee the most. She's the computer-nerd stoner friend who puts my memories of early computers into fun scenarios! Next best is Cherry's mom because she's sexier than her daughter and reminds this grown boy of the mythic sexiness of MILFS in his youth!
This was made successfully for its target audience.
Cherry puts it in her own words:
"This is a tits-an'-ass, cocks-in-pussy funny book! -Y'know?"
The book finishes with a four page Larry and Cherry interaction where she tells him what was just quoted and then a two page conversation between Dori Seda and Larry that caricatures* them well!
I HATE AUTHOR/ARTIST PHOTOS so I beg the masters of this meta-mainframe to make their photos a blank frame that appears IF you click it! BOOKS AND ART SERVE AS PALETTES FOR US TO USE FOR OUR CONCEPTIONS OF THEIR CREATORS. Once you even mistakenly see a photograph they become IMMEDIATELY limited and what you conceived them to be is IRRETRIEVABLY lost.
That said and in reference to the above *: When they draw themselves in comics (not in portrait) I love it! They draw themselves toward the story at hand and give you a vague idea for your imagination to work with but you never know if what's on the page is even close, if not opposite, of their actual appearance!
I remember her vaguely from childhood but never knew anything other that what she looked like so this was spiritually cathartic. Ya knoag?
It's pure "gentleman's" humor and DOES entertain above chest-level. Welz created quite a malleable ditz to insert into whatever he wanted to make fun of.
I like Ellie Dee the most. She's the computer-nerd stoner friend who puts my memories of early computers into fun scenarios! Next best is Cherry's mom because she's sexier than her daughter and reminds this grown boy of the mythic sexiness of MILFS in his youth!
This was made successfully for its target audience.
Cherry puts it in her own words:
"This is a tits-an'-ass, cocks-in-pussy funny book! -Y'know?"
The book finishes with a four page Larry and Cherry interaction where she tells him what was just quoted and then a two page conversation between Dori Seda and Larry that caricatures* them well!
I HATE AUTHOR/ARTIST PHOTOS so I beg the masters of this meta-mainframe to make their photos a blank frame that appears IF you click it! BOOKS AND ART SERVE AS PALETTES FOR US TO USE FOR OUR CONCEPTIONS OF THEIR CREATORS. Once you even mistakenly see a photograph they become IMMEDIATELY limited and what you conceived them to be is IRRETRIEVABLY lost.
That said and in reference to the above *: When they draw themselves in comics (not in portrait) I love it! They draw themselves toward the story at hand and give you a vague idea for your imagination to work with but you never know if what's on the page is even close, if not opposite, of their actual appearance!
January 12, 2024
--2.5 stars rounded down--
I read this as part of my attempt to get a general overview of modern comics history and it was alright, I guess.
Very light stuff, obviously, which made it nice to flick through when I had 10 minutes to kill but didn't feel like reading anything heavier. I'm not sure if satire is really the right word because, as a satire of 80s/90s America and its contrast to the idealised version of that seen in Archie comics and the like, it only really works on one level. Still, I'm sure it was probably really funny at the time, as a lot of people seem to have fond memories of this title. Personally, I just found it gave me the odd chuckle but there's nothing wrong with that.
I read the first 9 issues before deciding I'd had my fill but I'll just leave the same review for the three volumes they're contained in.
I read this as part of my attempt to get a general overview of modern comics history and it was alright, I guess.
Very light stuff, obviously, which made it nice to flick through when I had 10 minutes to kill but didn't feel like reading anything heavier. I'm not sure if satire is really the right word because, as a satire of 80s/90s America and its contrast to the idealised version of that seen in Archie comics and the like, it only really works on one level. Still, I'm sure it was probably really funny at the time, as a lot of people seem to have fond memories of this title. Personally, I just found it gave me the odd chuckle but there's nothing wrong with that.
I read the first 9 issues before deciding I'd had my fill but I'll just leave the same review for the three volumes they're contained in.
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