SLAM!: The Next Jam #4

SLAM! #8

by Pamela Ribon, Marina Julia (Illustrator), Veronica Fish (Illustrator)

Knockout’s conflict between family and derby comes to a head.

Genres: Comics, LGBT, Graphic Novels

32 pages, Paperback

Published December 13, 2017

About the author

Pamela Ribon is a screenwriter (Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Bears), performer, TV writer, comic book writer, best-selling novelist, and a Film Independent Directing Lab Fellow.

She is currently adapting her original comic book series SLAM! — co-created with Veronica Fish — as an animated half-hour with Rooster Teeth and Minnow Mountain for HBO Max. She is attached to direct (with Paul Franklin) her live-action feature adaptation of her critically-acclaimed graphic novel My Boyfriend is a Bear (co-created with Cat Farris). She is also adapting her comedic memoir NOTES TO BOYS (AND OTHER THINGS I SHOULDN’T SHARE IN PUBLIC) as an animated series for FX’s CAKE.

Pamela was a flagship contributor to Television Without Pity, and is known as a pioneer in the blogging world with pamie.com, where she launched such viral essays as “How I Might Have Just Become the Newest Urban Legend” and “Barbie Fucks it Up Again,” the latter of which led to #FeministHackerBarbie, a revamp of Mattel’s products and marketing for Barbie, and the creation of Game Developer Barbie as “Career of the Year.” Pamela’s stage work has been showcased at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and she created the accidental international scandal known as Call Us Crazy: The Anne Heche Monologues.

A former Austinite with a BFA in Acting from the University of Texas, Pamela has been entered into the Oxford English Dictionary under “muffin top.” That is not a joke. @pamelaribon | she/her

Reviews

[Alice-Elizabeth (Prolific Reader Alice) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 out of 5 stars!

I found the ending to be quite abrupt, there was a little something missing for me overall. I do prefer the Slam comics over this series!

[BooksAreLife · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was nice series, a super quick and enjoyable read, something I finished over my last few commutes to uni. The art is cool, learning about derby was interesting, but it's definitely wayyy too short, and therefore wayyy too undeveloped. The storylines all just happened expect one was left unresolved???🤷🤷 But it was a fun read and that was what I wanted, of course I would have loved to really invest in the characters but I'm not too fussed about it.

[solène · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can't wait for the next issue?!

[L ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

The sapphics are here! It was a strong issue I hope there will be another one

[Lucía Xochimitl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need mor of this comic

[Rosh (_soap_box) · Rating 3 out of 5]

What was that ending? I need a proper conclusion. The original series is better because this didn't get the conclusion it deserves.

[Munaya Al salhee · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 Stars.

That was cute.

[Caroline Harbour · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked the series up to now, but this ending feels pretty rushed and introduced some pretty big plot elements that don’t really get resolved.

[cryptcatz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved this series, but like many others I felt the ending was very abrupt. It felt more like things were just really getting started, and I was left with a lot of loose ends. I wanted to spend more time with characters, to see them change and develop more.

[Zian B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m glad the characters got a more positive ending but the actual ending to this series seemed incomplete. It didn’t feel like an official ending but more like an ending to this issue, then more issues will come afterwards. There’s still some unanswered questions that I wish would’ve been answered in more comic issues. Overall I like the first SLAM! series, the first 4 issues, more than I like SLAM!: The Next Jam aka issues #5-#8.