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Street Angel #6-11
Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive
Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez is a homeless ninja girl on a skateboard! In-between kicking ass and taking sandwiches - she fights bullies, street gangs, ninjas, the man, cocky superheroes, hunger, and the ninja industrial complex. She also rescues a stray dog, makes weird new friends, and saves Christmas!?! This collection includes all of Street Angel's Image Comics adventures plus a couple of extra stories and behind-the-scenes materials.
Collects STREET AFTER SCHOOL KUNG FU SPECIAL, THE STREET ANGEL GANG, STREET SUPER HERO FOR A DAY, STREET ANGEL GOES TO JUVIE, STREET ANGEL VS NINJATECH, STREET ANGEL'S DOG, XMAS SPECIAL, GHOST MONSTER
Collects STREET AFTER SCHOOL KUNG FU SPECIAL, THE STREET ANGEL GANG, STREET SUPER HERO FOR A DAY, STREET ANGEL GOES TO JUVIE, STREET ANGEL VS NINJATECH, STREET ANGEL'S DOG, XMAS SPECIAL, GHOST MONSTER
240 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 2019
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About the author
Jim Rugg
86 books102 followersJim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist based in Pittsburgh. His books include STREET ANGEL, The PLAIN Janes, The Guild, Afrodisiac, and Notebook Drawings. Awards and recognition from the Society of Illustrators, AIGA, Communication Arts, Print magazine, American Illustration, SPX, and Creative Quarterly adorn his mantle.
His studio is pencils, paper, ballpoint pens, ink, Photoshop, cats, and comics.
His studio is pencils, paper, ballpoint pens, ink, Photoshop, cats, and comics.
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November 28, 2019
Aaaa, I loved this! Sort of makes me think of Scott Pilgrim but without the manic pixie dream girl male fantasy thing. Also the artwork kicks so much ass I don't really want to stop looking at it. It's just a simple story of a homeless girl who fights ninjas and robots and aliens. A tale as old as time, really.
October 26, 2019
Compleat Street Angel
These comics are weird and lovely and odd and funny, and I always get a kick out of them. The idea is that Street Angel's thirteen, she's homeless, she has no backstory or origin story, and she has radical skilz. Skateboarding, mastery of martial arts, brains, attitude, and a gift for snappy patter make her "the deadliest girl alive".
There are a number of Street Angel singles and collections, and apart from the Street Angel character they are all sort of one shots. Anything goes in terms of plot, and you'll find pirates, ninjas, and all kinds of shenanigans. This volume collects most of the Street Angel stories I know of. There's Street Angel in juvie, and versus Ninjatech, and joining the Bleeders, and the after school kung-fu issue. You also get the Christmas and Halloween specials. So, lots of variety and many different approaches to the art. Some stories are more coherent than others, and some of the art is bizarro, (like with the Bleeders gang story), but that's part of the fun. In every issue Street Angel is sort of the same but sort of different.
To me, the two best adventures involve Juvie and Ninjatech.
In the latter, Street Angel, the deadliest girl alive, swears to have vengeance on Ninjatech, the company that provides her enemy Ninja Carl with all of his ninja weapons. Disappointed that the Ninjatech corporate headquarters doesn't have a convenient self-destruct button, she'll just have to destroy the whole place one floor at a time. This issue has all of the Street Angel touches. Ninja Carl's escape from Street Angel is done as a cool postmodern set of silhouettes and nervous eyeballs. There is some psychedelic stuff that looks like graffiti. There are plenty of deadpan funny Street Angel throwaway lines and nice gibes at the ninja daughters at Ninjatech take your daughter to work day. Mixed in with catalogue pages for real looking equipment are pages for stuff like nano-ninjas, so stay sharp as you turn the pages.
In my other favorite , Street Angel is in juvie, (natch), and she has no problem at all adjusting. Well, maybe some problems, but nothing that can't be solved by escaping. This particular issue actually is more coherent and linear than most, although it still benefits from a few rereads. That's O.K., though, because the fun of Street Angel for me is the character, and plot is just an excuse to have her go places and do things. Between the high energy scenes, the funny dialogue, and the sly and clever bits hidden around the edges, (police reports, newspaper clippings, and so on), this is entertaining stuff. While it's great to have a rad female hero with attitude, that alone isn't enough to carry a series. This has style and smarts behind it.
So, fun as it is to have a girrl power character, Street Angel isn't a sop or a marketing ploy. She's tough, feisty and funny, and she's legit. She is the deadliest girl alive.
(Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
These comics are weird and lovely and odd and funny, and I always get a kick out of them. The idea is that Street Angel's thirteen, she's homeless, she has no backstory or origin story, and she has radical skilz. Skateboarding, mastery of martial arts, brains, attitude, and a gift for snappy patter make her "the deadliest girl alive".
There are a number of Street Angel singles and collections, and apart from the Street Angel character they are all sort of one shots. Anything goes in terms of plot, and you'll find pirates, ninjas, and all kinds of shenanigans. This volume collects most of the Street Angel stories I know of. There's Street Angel in juvie, and versus Ninjatech, and joining the Bleeders, and the after school kung-fu issue. You also get the Christmas and Halloween specials. So, lots of variety and many different approaches to the art. Some stories are more coherent than others, and some of the art is bizarro, (like with the Bleeders gang story), but that's part of the fun. In every issue Street Angel is sort of the same but sort of different.
To me, the two best adventures involve Juvie and Ninjatech.
In the latter, Street Angel, the deadliest girl alive, swears to have vengeance on Ninjatech, the company that provides her enemy Ninja Carl with all of his ninja weapons. Disappointed that the Ninjatech corporate headquarters doesn't have a convenient self-destruct button, she'll just have to destroy the whole place one floor at a time. This issue has all of the Street Angel touches. Ninja Carl's escape from Street Angel is done as a cool postmodern set of silhouettes and nervous eyeballs. There is some psychedelic stuff that looks like graffiti. There are plenty of deadpan funny Street Angel throwaway lines and nice gibes at the ninja daughters at Ninjatech take your daughter to work day. Mixed in with catalogue pages for real looking equipment are pages for stuff like nano-ninjas, so stay sharp as you turn the pages.
In my other favorite , Street Angel is in juvie, (natch), and she has no problem at all adjusting. Well, maybe some problems, but nothing that can't be solved by escaping. This particular issue actually is more coherent and linear than most, although it still benefits from a few rereads. That's O.K., though, because the fun of Street Angel for me is the character, and plot is just an excuse to have her go places and do things. Between the high energy scenes, the funny dialogue, and the sly and clever bits hidden around the edges, (police reports, newspaper clippings, and so on), this is entertaining stuff. While it's great to have a rad female hero with attitude, that alone isn't enough to carry a series. This has style and smarts behind it.
So, fun as it is to have a girrl power character, Street Angel isn't a sop or a marketing ploy. She's tough, feisty and funny, and she's legit. She is the deadliest girl alive.
(Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
October 11, 2019
This is an odd collection of reprinted comic book stories about a street girl, who is also a bad-ass ninja. She solves mysteries. She beats up bad guys, and she likes to eat.
She is probably helps Santa, and a ghost at Halloween. She goes to Juvie, and breaks out all the girls, not just the one she was supposed to. She is very much her own self.
All very strange. I think it is an acquired taste.
Thanks to Edelweiss for making this book available for an honest review.
She is probably helps Santa, and a ghost at Halloween. She goes to Juvie, and breaks out all the girls, not just the one she was supposed to. She is very much her own self.
All very strange. I think it is an acquired taste.
Thanks to Edelweiss for making this book available for an honest review.
January 2, 2021
3.5 stars. I know absolutely nothing about this character, so coming into this blind was pretty confusing. The main character is hilarious and ridiculous and I love the various art styles interwoven into this volume.
January 5, 2020
My son kept asking me if I was finished with this so he could read it. He devoured it on a Saturday morning, which is maybe the best review of all.
March 6, 2020
I appreciated that this graphic novel featured a girl who was experiencing homelessness. Most books do not talk about homelessness at all. However, this graphic novel was just not for me.
September 24, 2021
Jesse “Street Angel” Sanchez is a teenage ninja vigilante with a skateboard. She’s also homeless. She fights bullies, street gangs, ninjas, and hunger. The stories are send ups of crime dramas, kung-fu movies, superhero comics, and more.
The comics in this collection were first published as individual issues by Image Comics. I liked that all the stories are stand-alone.
Jim Rugg studied graphic design and it shows. Each story looks different which makes for a visual feast. He uses a variety of materials when creating comics. Not only pencils and brushes, but markers, ballpoint pens, and digitally using an iPad or Wacom tablet. He also experiments with panel placement, colors, lettering, and fonts. His influences include illustration, children’s books, cartoons, and manga.
This was an interesting and fun read. I enjoyed the variety of stories and the variety of storytelling styles used.
The comics in this collection were first published as individual issues by Image Comics. I liked that all the stories are stand-alone.
Jim Rugg studied graphic design and it shows. Each story looks different which makes for a visual feast. He uses a variety of materials when creating comics. Not only pencils and brushes, but markers, ballpoint pens, and digitally using an iPad or Wacom tablet. He also experiments with panel placement, colors, lettering, and fonts. His influences include illustration, children’s books, cartoons, and manga.
This was an interesting and fun read. I enjoyed the variety of stories and the variety of storytelling styles used.
April 10, 2024
In Jim Rugg's "Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive," the visuals are an absolute standout—truly where the magic happens. Although the storyline may dart in various directions, the central premise of a homeless ninja girl with a penchant for skateboarding captured my imagination. It's peppered with moments that coaxed out more than a few laughs. It's a wild ride that definitely coaxed a few laughs out of me.
November 17, 2024
7/10
This book contains all the Street Angel comics that came out since 2016, namely five hardcover short volumes published by Image and a few other occasional stories. The series is mostly relevant as a fantastic sampler of cartooning techniques, which artist Jim Rugg has learned and/or developed in years of practice of the craft.
Street Angel is about the comedically violent life of Jesse Sanchez, an overpowered homeless teenage ninja skater. As established in the early black and white incarnation of this comic series - available in the anthology Street Angel: The Princess of Poverty - Jesse lives in the crime infested streets of Angel City, a stereotypical American city that seems to be the sum of all the weirdest and most childish comic tropes. So, Jesse finds herself fighting crazy scientists, gang brutes, aliens, mobs, and her most recurrent opponents...ninjas, of course! But all in all these foes are nothing but fools compared to the unbeatable little girl. Her real enemy is and remains the pain of a constantly cold and starving life as a homeless person.
The adventures that Jesse lives have plots as thin as the paper on which they are printed, so do not expect much from that perspective. But they are beautiful to look and re-look at, because they are composed of a plethora of visual tricks, inventive sound effects, explosive colours, acrobatic double splash pages. I am actually surprised of how strictly 'art-based' all the narrative techniques at display here are. Every page is an invitation to explore all these well thought and well executed visual details. Jim Rugg and his mysterious co-writer Brian Maruca (possibly another alter ego of Rugg) prove that complex and compelling plots, although desirable, are not a necessary condition for great cartooning.
So, let's see what we have here.
In Street Angel's Dog Jesse becomes friend with a dog, beats some young thugs, then does the right thing by returning the dog to the actual owner.
After School Kung Fu Special is a school-cliché episode, in which maybe Jessy does not have much space to showcase her adorably extravagant personality. The great yellow double page with the punch in the face alone is worth the ticket price, though.
In Street Angel Gang Jesse's constant state of starvation pushes her to join a street gang. The rest is what you expect from the premises: bombastic violence and strong colours exploding on the reader's face. The main default of the story is its shortness. It would have benefited from at least thirty more pages to explore a bit more the sarcasm on the bureaucracy of the street gangs, and above all showcase the dynamics between different gangs. It actually feels like the first chapter of a never finished story.
Superhero for a Day is one of the best tales, in my opinion. In almost every page there is some astonishing visual trick, and the use of colours is fantastic. The story starts with three consecutive 'rolling' double splash pages, followed by a simple but intense staring match between our hero and a rat...because, well, why not? It then turns into a gentle parody of superheroes. Even if it is on the theme of teenage friendships and solidarity that the authors seem to be more maliciously ironic. Unfortunately, the ending is a bit abrupt, and the expression on the protagonist face in the last panel is halfway between sad and ambiguous, leaving a strange feeling. Most adorable moment: Jesse trying to fuck up Captain Alpha's cape.
Throughout the series, ninjas are always portrayed as some kind of cultural/social human group. There are ninja neighbours, ninja families and so on. In Street Angel Vs Ninjatech the idea is pushed to its limits: Jesse is going into a rampage revenge against a ninja high tech company. We start with micro ninja robots that kill through the victim's blood flow and we end with a big ninja robot. it is basically all a colourful 'ninjaxploitation'.
Street Angel goes to Juvie is the most refreshing chapter. The plot is more refined than usual. In this instalment Jesse goes undercover in prison for a secret mission. She will discover that life as a jailbird is not that bad for a girl who grew up in the street, constantly cold and hungry. Nor it is that bad when a girl needs support and recover from an oppressing family environment. Nice to see her expressing a genuine overexcited for life, instead of being merely excited for some nasty food found in a trash bin. Rugg usually draws totally free, sometimes over the top, layouts. However, in this story he exploits a very rigid layout cage as long as the girls are shown in the penitentiary, which is cool.
The book also contains two minor specials, establishing quite firmly that Jesse prefers Halloween way more than Christmas: Santa can eat @$£&*!
Some more, some less, the endings of all these stories feel a bit abrupt. I think that most of them could have been developed further. In that case, this series would have been an absolute masterpiece. It's still good as it is, nonetheless.
Only regret: not having a daughter to share this book with.
This book contains all the Street Angel comics that came out since 2016, namely five hardcover short volumes published by Image and a few other occasional stories. The series is mostly relevant as a fantastic sampler of cartooning techniques, which artist Jim Rugg has learned and/or developed in years of practice of the craft.
Street Angel is about the comedically violent life of Jesse Sanchez, an overpowered homeless teenage ninja skater. As established in the early black and white incarnation of this comic series - available in the anthology Street Angel: The Princess of Poverty - Jesse lives in the crime infested streets of Angel City, a stereotypical American city that seems to be the sum of all the weirdest and most childish comic tropes. So, Jesse finds herself fighting crazy scientists, gang brutes, aliens, mobs, and her most recurrent opponents...ninjas, of course! But all in all these foes are nothing but fools compared to the unbeatable little girl. Her real enemy is and remains the pain of a constantly cold and starving life as a homeless person.
The adventures that Jesse lives have plots as thin as the paper on which they are printed, so do not expect much from that perspective. But they are beautiful to look and re-look at, because they are composed of a plethora of visual tricks, inventive sound effects, explosive colours, acrobatic double splash pages. I am actually surprised of how strictly 'art-based' all the narrative techniques at display here are. Every page is an invitation to explore all these well thought and well executed visual details. Jim Rugg and his mysterious co-writer Brian Maruca (possibly another alter ego of Rugg) prove that complex and compelling plots, although desirable, are not a necessary condition for great cartooning.
So, let's see what we have here.
In Street Angel's Dog Jesse becomes friend with a dog, beats some young thugs, then does the right thing by returning the dog to the actual owner.
After School Kung Fu Special is a school-cliché episode, in which maybe Jessy does not have much space to showcase her adorably extravagant personality. The great yellow double page with the punch in the face alone is worth the ticket price, though.
In Street Angel Gang Jesse's constant state of starvation pushes her to join a street gang. The rest is what you expect from the premises: bombastic violence and strong colours exploding on the reader's face. The main default of the story is its shortness. It would have benefited from at least thirty more pages to explore a bit more the sarcasm on the bureaucracy of the street gangs, and above all showcase the dynamics between different gangs. It actually feels like the first chapter of a never finished story.
Superhero for a Day is one of the best tales, in my opinion. In almost every page there is some astonishing visual trick, and the use of colours is fantastic. The story starts with three consecutive 'rolling' double splash pages, followed by a simple but intense staring match between our hero and a rat...because, well, why not? It then turns into a gentle parody of superheroes. Even if it is on the theme of teenage friendships and solidarity that the authors seem to be more maliciously ironic. Unfortunately, the ending is a bit abrupt, and the expression on the protagonist face in the last panel is halfway between sad and ambiguous, leaving a strange feeling. Most adorable moment: Jesse trying to fuck up Captain Alpha's cape.
Throughout the series, ninjas are always portrayed as some kind of cultural/social human group. There are ninja neighbours, ninja families and so on. In Street Angel Vs Ninjatech the idea is pushed to its limits: Jesse is going into a rampage revenge against a ninja high tech company. We start with micro ninja robots that kill through the victim's blood flow and we end with a big ninja robot. it is basically all a colourful 'ninjaxploitation'.
Street Angel goes to Juvie is the most refreshing chapter. The plot is more refined than usual. In this instalment Jesse goes undercover in prison for a secret mission. She will discover that life as a jailbird is not that bad for a girl who grew up in the street, constantly cold and hungry. Nor it is that bad when a girl needs support and recover from an oppressing family environment. Nice to see her expressing a genuine overexcited for life, instead of being merely excited for some nasty food found in a trash bin. Rugg usually draws totally free, sometimes over the top, layouts. However, in this story he exploits a very rigid layout cage as long as the girls are shown in the penitentiary, which is cool.
The book also contains two minor specials, establishing quite firmly that Jesse prefers Halloween way more than Christmas: Santa can eat @$£&*!
Some more, some less, the endings of all these stories feel a bit abrupt. I think that most of them could have been developed further. In that case, this series would have been an absolute masterpiece. It's still good as it is, nonetheless.
Only regret: not having a daughter to share this book with.
May 27, 2021
I REALLY, really enjoyed this. I sort of stumbled across it by way of the Cartoonist Kayfabe Youtube channel. Jim Rugg being one of the hosts. I like his art and the thoughts and breakdowns he provides on comics. I have some of his other work, but this is the first Street Angel I've read.
In general, I find this to have a lot of charm and fun in it all the way around. The art and story work perfectly together and each story has some sort of unexpected turn that generated a few laughs for me. I'm a big fan of Jim Rugg's and will most certainly be picking up whatever he comes out with in the future.
What will ultimately be the down side for this comic is that it isn't published by Marvel or DC, and Jim Rugg doesn't draw like Jim Lee. Personally, I love Jim's (both of them) style, but most comic readers these days rarely venture outside of the big 2 AND they will immediately pass on this because the art "sucks." Really, that shows just how little they understand about sequential art and what makes for a good comic, but I digress.
Anyway, there are a lot of people who are never even going to give this a chance for various stupid reasons. However, I feel that if you can get this into the hands of someone young, who isn't tainted by the commercialization of the medium, I bet you they would enjoy it immensely and you might even have a new comic book fan.
In general, I find this to have a lot of charm and fun in it all the way around. The art and story work perfectly together and each story has some sort of unexpected turn that generated a few laughs for me. I'm a big fan of Jim Rugg's and will most certainly be picking up whatever he comes out with in the future.
What will ultimately be the down side for this comic is that it isn't published by Marvel or DC, and Jim Rugg doesn't draw like Jim Lee. Personally, I love Jim's (both of them) style, but most comic readers these days rarely venture outside of the big 2 AND they will immediately pass on this because the art "sucks." Really, that shows just how little they understand about sequential art and what makes for a good comic, but I digress.
Anyway, there are a lot of people who are never even going to give this a chance for various stupid reasons. However, I feel that if you can get this into the hands of someone young, who isn't tainted by the commercialization of the medium, I bet you they would enjoy it immensely and you might even have a new comic book fan.
November 27, 2019
"Orphaned by the world... raised by the streets... Jesse Sanchez is a kung fu master... and the world's greatest homeless skateboarder. In Wilkesborough, Angel City's deadliest ghetto... she fights ninjas, drugs, nepotism, and pre-algebra as... STREET ANGEL."
Rugg and Maruca's creation is basically the Chuck Norris of her world --- nothing can defeat her. She's a middle schooler with a huge appetite, a bad attitude, and insane skills. And her stories are fairly gonzo. In one of my favorites from this volume, not only do the baddies come introduced with trading cards ("Throws, Bats, Knifes, Shoots: Right"), but Jesse brings a tiger from a rival gang into their lair and it has its own trading card ("Saved from a poacher's bullet as a kitten..."). Added to all this are day-glo graphics and full page spreads from Maruca, who mixes up art styles from gritty urban landscapes to super simplistic supersuits to corporate advertising for robot ninjas. (There's a remarkably effective Christmas story told --- much to my astonishment --- in thickly inked black and white.)
Still, at their heart, these are stories about a middle school girl, and they work on that level. Jesse spends time with her friends, ending up fighting a creepy boy at her school, befriends a lost dog, and sneaks into a "take your daughter to work" event. It's just that the somewhat normal appears in the midst of the absolute crazy.
[A more capitalistic note: these are reprints of short stories that were (mostly) published by Image separately as hardcovers that never seemed worth the price. This is a much more economical package.]
If you like Jim Mahfood's stuff, like what Paul Pope has done with his YA graphic novels, or are interested in kickass girl comics, pick this up.
Rugg and Maruca's creation is basically the Chuck Norris of her world --- nothing can defeat her. She's a middle schooler with a huge appetite, a bad attitude, and insane skills. And her stories are fairly gonzo. In one of my favorites from this volume, not only do the baddies come introduced with trading cards ("Throws, Bats, Knifes, Shoots: Right"), but Jesse brings a tiger from a rival gang into their lair and it has its own trading card ("Saved from a poacher's bullet as a kitten..."). Added to all this are day-glo graphics and full page spreads from Maruca, who mixes up art styles from gritty urban landscapes to super simplistic supersuits to corporate advertising for robot ninjas. (There's a remarkably effective Christmas story told --- much to my astonishment --- in thickly inked black and white.)
Still, at their heart, these are stories about a middle school girl, and they work on that level. Jesse spends time with her friends, ending up fighting a creepy boy at her school, befriends a lost dog, and sneaks into a "take your daughter to work" event. It's just that the somewhat normal appears in the midst of the absolute crazy.
[A more capitalistic note: these are reprints of short stories that were (mostly) published by Image separately as hardcovers that never seemed worth the price. This is a much more economical package.]
If you like Jim Mahfood's stuff, like what Paul Pope has done with his YA graphic novels, or are interested in kickass girl comics, pick this up.
September 13, 2022
I've been a fan of Cartoonist Kayfabe for awhile, but for some reason I wasn't too keen on checking out this novel by Jim Rugg. It's promoted as a YA book which I instinctively avoid. But I need to check my biases some times... this was fun! If it is YA, it's pretty dang edgy with lots of scenes with violence, underage drinking, (bleeped out) swearing. You know, all the stuff young adults actually want to see in a book.
Jim Rugg's artwork is deceiving. It seems simple and sketched quickly like a high-schooler doodling in his notebook. But it's actually really interesting. There's so much going on, there's no boring panels. Lots of movement, interesting perspectives, and unique panel choices.
Jim Rugg's artwork is deceiving. It seems simple and sketched quickly like a high-schooler doodling in his notebook. But it's actually really interesting. There's so much going on, there's no boring panels. Lots of movement, interesting perspectives, and unique panel choices.
December 31, 2020
Sem najdu tale strip, k mam idejo risat svojo zgodbo o punci k skejta in mal gledam kako so se drugi loteval skejtanja v stripu. Ni sicer velik poudark na skejtanju, je dost bolj akcija in pretepanje...
Tud kako je narisan me ni takoj pritegnilo, sem se lotil brat zaradi tematike, al pač vsaj zarad skejtanja - pa bolj kot berem bl paše na zgodbo, verjetno je pa tudi avtor mal nadgradil slog ko je mel že več kilometrine.
Zadnja Tric or Treat je super, jo preganja en duh, mal ga klofa, potem pa ugotovi da ji nič noče in ga naštima da ji drži sladkarijo ko hodita od vrat do vrat, haha. Je fin lik tale punc, taka polna navdušenja in pozitivna.
Tud kako je narisan me ni takoj pritegnilo, sem se lotil brat zaradi tematike, al pač vsaj zarad skejtanja - pa bolj kot berem bl paše na zgodbo, verjetno je pa tudi avtor mal nadgradil slog ko je mel že več kilometrine.
Zadnja Tric or Treat je super, jo preganja en duh, mal ga klofa, potem pa ugotovi da ji nič noče in ga naštima da ji drži sladkarijo ko hodita od vrat do vrat, haha. Je fin lik tale punc, taka polna navdušenja in pozitivna.
February 20, 2021
Jim Rugg's art is amazing, there are pages here that belong in a museum. This book is well worth it for that alone. The writing isn't quite up to snuff. The stories are basically just Street Angel beating up all and sundry w/her amazing superhero powers (how she comes by them is unexplained), which is fine but I'd expect a little more wit in order to swallow the hard-to-believe bits but I didn't get it. Still, right now, after reading (looking at) this book and last year's Octobriana comic, I will be eagerly chasing down any other Jim Rugg books I can find. He really deserves a writer of Brian K. Vaughan caliber though.
August 9, 2023
I haven't read any of the prior Street Angel comics, so I can't say for sure if I missed anything or not, but this isn't all that complicated of a story anyways. This follows a young girl who happens to be a ninja who skateboards. She takes on new enemies with each story, solves mysteries, fights bad guys and saves the day. She also likes to eat. There is really not much else to this as far as I could grasp, but it was mostly entertaining enough due to Rugg's varied cartooning styles throughout. It's visually appealing throughout with the dynamic and stylist action sequences and the vibrant colors.
June 6, 2021
Hands-down 5-star rating. This is the perfect comic experience. Story, Art, colors, everything. It’s fun and quirky and well crafted. The base premise asks the reader to not question too much and just enjoy the ride. If you can do that, this is a great read. If you can’t, hey, maybe it’s not for you, but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a perfectly executed series. Don’t over think it. Just enjoy it in all its self-aware comfort.
September 11, 2020
I purchased Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive for the library I work at, partially for the teen collection, but mainly for myself to enjoy. And it rules! Even had a few flashbacks of elementary school and the occasional battle of the sexes that went down. Wish it had existed back in the day, but grateful for it now. Thanks Rugg & Maruca.
April 8, 2023
I love this I love the quirky nature of the book this book to be really funny and also being really absurd and I Just Enjoyed Street Angel as a character who kind of just rolled with whatever situation she was in and just went with it. I really enjoyed the art. It wasn’t very pristine. It fit the tone of the book. I really enjoy the scrappy nature of it.
May 29, 2022
Interesting, I guess? 🤷🏻♂️
The art and style was off putting at first, but grew on me. The same applies to the protagonist. I kept waiting for a reveal of a deeper layer to the story, but it really seems to be as straight-forward as labeled.
The art and style was off putting at first, but grew on me. The same applies to the protagonist. I kept waiting for a reveal of a deeper layer to the story, but it really seems to be as straight-forward as labeled.
September 26, 2022
There's something about Street Angel stories that I love. I don't know whether its how they deals with such heavy concepts in such a light way or their sense of style but Street Angel has made me into a die hard fan
October 23, 2019
Thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for the review copy.
This was so much fun! The stories were fast-paced and funny and weird. The art was amazing and really blew me away. Total love for this.
This was so much fun! The stories were fast-paced and funny and weird. The art was amazing and really blew me away. Total love for this.
October 26, 2019
Far too trashy and gonzo for my taste.
February 18, 2020
Street Angel is the best. Only I wish it were written and drawn by women. You hear that, ladies? We have work to do!
July 19, 2020
C'est bon mais sans plus.
March 14, 2021
Muy lindo libro y contiene técnicas visuales muy creativas. Pero en cuanto a trama y supongo que intenta tener comedia, no me convence.
November 22, 2021
Divertido, dinâmico, infantil, no melhor espírito tartarugas ninja. Excelente para descomprimir.
January 12, 2022
This shit rules. Homeless middle school ninja is the premise. The book is full of heart and fantastic art by Jim Rugg. This has big punk rock energy/aesthetics. So much fun.
May 31, 2022
I found Jim Rugg's STREET ANGEL hardcover books beautiful, but kind of slight, so bounding them all together into one volume makes this an amazing package.
September 27, 2022
This was so much fun! Super great character and very charming stories with consistently excellent art that shifted to suit the particular story being told. Super dynamic and inventive.
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