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Les Vacheries des nombrils #2

by Maryse Dubuc

Dans cette série dérivée des Nombrils, on retrouve Karine, Jenny et Vicky au temps où Karine ne sortait pas encore avec Dan et où elle faisait, sans broncher, les devoirs de ses deux "amies". Mais on découvre aussi l'origine de l'amitié entre Vicky et Jenny quand une Vicky boulotte et boutonneuse bavait devant une Jenny ultra sexy et fraîchement débarquée dans l'école. Et comment Vicky n'a pas hésité à lâcher sa seule amie de l'époque pour traîner aux côtés de Jenny, appelée à devenir inévitablement la fille la plus populaire du bahut. On découvre aussi l'intelligence de Vicky qui multiplie les trucs tordus pour faire faire ses devoirs à Karine (comme demander à Jenny de simuler une attaque cérébrale) ou pour faire virer les mecs qui ne s'intéressent pas à elle avec assez d'enthousiasme. Un album 100 % "gag"qui se situe chronologiquement au moment du tome 1 de la série principale. Tout simplement hilarant !

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Comics

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2019

About the author

Maryse Dubuc (born 21 October 1977) is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for The Bellybuttons, which she creates together with artist Delaf.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryse_D...

Reviews

[Shaynning - Libraire Jeunesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

J'ai bien aimé que les auteurs reviennent sur certains évènements de la ligne principale de la série, mettant certains points au clair. C,est toujours surprenant de voir la gravité de certaines scènes alors que cette BD est classée "Humour", surtout la scène finale. Certaines de ses micro-histoires nous donnent donc plus d'informations sur la série, entre autre sur certains personnages. Un bon travail une fois de plus!


Catégorisation: BD fiction humoristique franco-québécoise, littérature jeunesse adolescente, 1er cycle secondaire, 12-15 ans+
Note: 8/10

[Ainara A.G · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pour une bonne dose de détente et rigolade !
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For a good dose of relaxation and fun!

[Vanina Barboza · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have a feeling the writer is running out of ideas. The French gag comics should be kept in the beginning of a volume or through the main plot (as they do with the main chapters.)
The idea that we have to keep seeing Karin suffering is getting really old.🙄
Because what made this comic better is when we saw more debt of the main characters and side characters. even with Vicky and Jenny, Vicky growing up insecure about her weight and looks and being bullied (even by her family) And choose to be popular and leaving the brown haired girl (who's name I forgot) became her bully in middle school and I think she hates them for that reason, because they're shallow girls and she is still mad that Vicky unfriended her and she became friend and popular with Jenny.
Jenny lived in a home with no father figure, a mother with alcohol addiction and because of that she turned out to be a airhead. But in chapter 8 (sadly only at the end, now we have to wait for the next one) She became somewhat smarter, caught up when people were messing with her, because Vicky made her unattractive and dress ugly and boring. Because Jenny can't rely on her looks and on Vicky, Karin or Hugo, she realizes that she sin't all that especially because she is a ditz. But we discover this might be a act and Jenny isn't that dumb (or she is and might have a mental disability...)

Anyhow, further talking about the comic in general. I hate, HATE how the girls are portrayed, especially since this is written by a woman but also illustrated by her perverted husband. Why do I call him a pervert? Well if you pay attention to the comic and how the girls and women are dressed and focused on. Heck two of the three main characters are dressed like they are in their 20s, but are teenagers. I get that they are supposed to be pretty, but you can be pretty and sexy without showing your damn thong or wearing tight clothes!!

Examples: When Jenny and Vicky played out something, for Karin to get back with Dan. The boy who kissed her kept groping her ass while making out. (yuck!🤢) This is thorough out the whole series (with minor characters and background characters)
In this spin-off we have a page were Vicky and Jenny have the thought if they were boys.
So Vicky would the stereotype tall, dark and handsome and immediately popular, while Jenny would be a stereotype frizzy, freckled, red hair boy. Because many red haired men are seen as unattractive, to the opposite that red haired women are hot or something and men can't be??
(AND what was really disgusting and strange how the writer and illustrator drew, Vicky as a guy, kissing Jenny as a girl!!?? F*CKING DISGUSTING!🤢🙄)
I hate how they made that black women are less attractive, but black men are seen as attractive and will get a girl, because of the lie and stereotype that ALL black man have a big dong.
And that Vicky is obviously seen as the second attractive girl, next to Jenny. People keep complimenting Jenny first and see Vicky sometimes as equaly pretty, but most of the time not as beautiful as Jenny and Vicky is just a second option if their hotter crush rejects them. But Vicky hates this and Vicky always finds a way to put Jenny in a bad light. This is TOXIC femininity! and toxic traits many media for girls have. Fighting over boys or attention/popularity, who is the prettiest girl and even bringing your friends down.

What is comes down to, is that this series overall has potential. From being funny and that cruel main characters aren't bad, because Vicky and Jenny get what they deserve in the end, even though Karin deserves better friends.
The good thing is that Karin changed and she stands up for herself and she is good friends with her band (except for a certain white devil looking guy) and with Megan (Vicky's neighbor in chapter 6 till 7.)
Some situations are funny, because how ridiculously and cruel they treat eachother, so the satire is great. But sometimes they go to far and some character get too violent and not in a cartoony Tom and Jerry way...But the characters play well on each other, I especially love Albin and Vicky's rivalry in the beginning and that Vicky found her match and who is smarter than her. Same goes for Megan, but she is a sweetheart and has always something smart and funny to say to Vicky and calls her barbie, which I find fitting and hilarious! So there is no character I dislike, besides the obvious ones like, Murphy, the parents of the girls, Melanie (but she got redeemed). etc.

But I don't like the elements and environment of the comic. As the young girls reading this comic might think they have to act like Vicky and Jenny to become popular, to avoid being like Karin. To dress inappropriate (sl*tty), be mean and demanding to everyone and think you are better than everyone and the boys will be running to you and kiss the ground you walk on. (almost every average looking boy, that have no chance with them, literary do this and others desperately simping.)
But Karin's turnover in chapter 5, proved you don't have to be mean, dress inappropriate and be yourself and with confidence without brining others down (and a better sense of fashion, haha have to admit Karin looks far better now than her older outfit.)
Moving on to my last points, the way women are portrayed in this comic is inappropriate, you can see how the models in the background on commercials are posing, in a sexy way.
How Jenny always is the sexy-bait or gives your bedroom eyes, in their promo or merchandise (again this girl is a TEENAGER! same goes for Vicky.)
This comics is for young girls, who won't notice this or don't mind if they do.
Don't see the problems of how women are portrayed and expected to act. Vain, sl*tty, attention seeking, mean, rivalry against other girls/women or viewed in a sexual way (male gaze)
Even if said target demographic is for girls, it is thanks to the perverted authors who write female characters without knowing how normal women behave. And these authors are old boomers who think their experience with high school or what they watched on tv, is with everyone, that there are popular kids and that everyone behaves like the ones behaves in their school. NOT! I am tired of how older people write young characters and misrepresent them. And final what's worse is when women write and portrayed women like this, most likely to sell more books to pervy boys (or pervy men🤢) or their pervy editor and nasty publisher will put it on the market. None of you are slick.
This was my review and rant of the series overall.
Little note, I will keep reading this stupid comic, because the characters grew on me and I want to see how it ends, that's how invested I am in the characters, for a mediocre comic...

[Tania (Real-Listen-Feel) · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars

Toujours aussi ridicule et divertissant à la fois. J'aime le concept de la série des Vacheries puisque ce sont toutes des petites histoires qui n'ont pas nécessairement de lien entre elles, contrairement à la série principales.

[La Biblio Geek · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5*

[Mélanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toujours et encore un humour aussi mordant, drôle... et vache!

[Ariane Brosseau · Rating 3 out of 5]

À chaque fois que Delaf et Dubuc parlent des Vacheries, c’est pour dire que c’est une petite pause dans l’histoire de la série originale qui a pris toute une ampleur, que c’est plus léger et que ce sont de simples gags qui ne durent qu’une page. Et pourtant! Les blagues ne sont pas aussi finies, aussi discontinues qu’on pourrait le croire. Certaines sont déclinées et vont jusqu’à former des fils narratifs qui tiennent l’album, comme lorsque Jenny lance des répliques écrites par Vicky (p.10, 38-39) ou qu’on retrace, au début, au milieu et à la fin du tome (p.7, 29 et 44) les débuts de l’amitié entre Jenny et Vicky…et qu’on voit que l’histoire change selon la personne qui la raconte!

Ce n’est pas non plus aussi léger qu’on pourrait le croire.

Je veux lire l'article de blogue au complet!

[Christine Picard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toujours un bon divertissement, je suis fascinée par la méchanceté de ces jeunes filles 😂😂

[Véronique Laplante Grenier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rare que je lis des bandes dessinées mais j’adore ces filles. Jenny et Vicky me font toujours rire.