I was flipping through this to see if it was a good graphic novel for a display about music. And then I started reading it. And then I couldn't put it down.Hopeless Savages is about an unusual family. Mom and dad are both infamous punk rock musicians and youngest daughter Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage has her own band as well. A TV network like VH1 is in the process of filming a Behind-the-Music-like show about the family and it has everyone on their last nerve. This volume centers around 16-year o...

oh my heart. If Vol. 1 didn't grab me by the short hairs, this would have whacked me over the head with any conveniently heavy object. There's so much going on in this story, but it's all well handled; and Twitch's interludes in the middle shot an arrow through my heart. Just wonderful. Highly recommended.

Short, cute, sweet, but I couldn't really relate that much. The slang was annoying.

Volume 2 of the Hopeless Savages series finds Dirk Hopeless, Nikki Savage, and their darling children reunited after a foiled kidnapping attempt, but now facing an even greater challenger: a "Behind the Music" style video special that intrudes upon everyone's lives, placing them under the type of microscope that only TV can provide. While the first Hopeless Savages book focused mostly on the relationship between the children in the family, this one focused more on intergenerational conflict, esp...

Picked this one up because it was on Oni Press, same as Scott Pilgrim. The cover reviews assured me that it was "cool." Was put off at first by the slang and non-sensical moments. And I kept getting the characters confused. But I stuck with it and liked it alright.

oof, this one was not nearly as good as the first. it was extremely hard to follow - too many people talk over each other in sentence fragments. i was exhausted keeping up. and i hated zero and ginger’s relationship - the emotions were way too strong for how little foundation was laid. and ginger was so nasty about friend zoning that i do not trust him at all.

I enjoyed this one less than the first volume, perhaps because it went into the banal territory of teenage crushes and rebellion. Even though those subjects were dealt with through the prism of the very enlightened Hopeless-Savage clan, there were less offbeat, dream parenting parts to it than the previous one, and it was more conventional. I still enjoyed it, but not as much.

Twitch though!!!!

This is the first Hopeless Savages book I read and it totally drew me into the family. This one is mostly about the documentary about the parents and about Zero's developing relationship with a boy at school. What I really love about this book, and the whole series, is that it is so energetic! There is a TON going on in every page, that sometimes words are literally cut off, hidden behind other parts, or just trail off, JUST like real conversations when you are only half listening to someone or

This volume was less confusing, though some of the plot points were still a bit of a mess and hard to follow. I liked the flashback structure, with the protagonist telling the story to her school administrators piecemeal. Unfortunately, I find Zero Hopeless-Savage to be by far the least interesting of the Hopeless-Savage children, and this book was almost entirely about her (as was the last) and her romantic life. I found myself craving the others' stories, and that craving made me enjoy this le...

The first volume of Hopeless Savages was a fun, manic story. This second volume is more realistic, and a lot more emotional. It's a story of young love, and trials and tribulations it can bring. The cartoonish violence is removed, and in its place is a lot more drama. O'Malley's art is excellent, of course; this was before Scott Pilgrim, so it was still very early in his career, but his style was still firmly in place, and it's a fun style. Sections drawn by Andi Watson, Christine Norrie and Chy...

I am not sure if I liked this book more than the first volume simply because I already knew the characters, or if it was the teenage angst. There weren't any crazy kidnappings, just plain old boy likes girl, girl realizes she likes boy, humiliates herself, and then tries to get said boy. All in the midst of punk and funny words. This book is a keeper.

Following up on the success of their first volume, the creators of Hopeless Savage are back with another look into the lives of aged punk rockers who have given up their crazy lives for a slice of suburbia. In this volume the young punk rocker Skank H-S is living a life of teenage monotony that's only relieved by practicing with her band. She'd like to find herself a nice boyfriend, but unfortunately most of the boys in her school either think she's easy or find her intimidating. It's at this po...

Zero is the daughter I would be proud to have.I stumbled across a used copy of this at Powell's this summer (who gets rid of "Hopeless Savages"?) Having been introduced to these characters before in "Greatest Hits", I was thrilled to scoop this up. Hands down, these are my favorite graphic characters.Fans of Bryan O'Malley's "Scott Pilgrim" series will not be disappointed.

Repeat After Me, And This Shall Be Our Code:MADE-UP CUSSES USUALLY SOUND KINDA DUMBOther than that, though, this was okay. Not great, not bad. It’s on par with the good-bad kind of ’80s movie, the kind that’s hokey but has some charm.This was also the first full book O’Malley drew, and it looks more like the ancient stuff he used to post on his website than like the stuff that got him famous. It’s kind of rough and it’s actually really hard to tell everyone apart (unlike Scott Pilgrim where a lo...

Had absolutely no idea this was the second volume, so that could be a large contributor to my confusion. I really couldn't tell what was going on for nearly the entire first chapter of this book. O'Malley's art had far too much background and was drawn with the same thickness of pen throughout, making it hard to tell who was talking and differentiate the characters. Zero had an extreme overuse of what I assume is made-up slang, making it really hard to figure out what she meant. There was also s...

This was such a cute story with great illustrations. I really love Zero's character. This volume centered around a well done love story that wasn't too sappy and had just the right amount of awesome.I also really liked the set up of disrupted timelines. At times it was confusing, but the overall effect was brilliant. Sometimes there was flashbacks within flashback,s which were a little hard to follow, but this was compensated for by having different artists illustrate the flashback scenes. This

This is a much more grounded story than the first volume. Despite the heightened setting, it offers realistic depictions of mother-teenage-daughter relationships and awkward teenage romance. A more objective reviewer might call it a more mature comic, maybe even a better comic than Volume One. But me? I miss the antic tone of the first volume. I also vastly prefer Christine Norrie's artwork to Bryan Lee O'Malley's, so I'm bummed that this volume is about 80% O'Malley, with only a smidgen of Norr...

Told as a series of flashbacks, this is a great character piece. Ground Zero focuses more on Zero’s character than the first Hopeless Savages graphic novel. Zero is a great, compelling character that is easy to identify with. Despite her less than typical circumstances, Zero has much in common with a regular teenager. There is a great balance of humor and emotion in this graphic novel, and it makes for a great sequel to the original graphic novel. I give it four stars out of five.

Volume two is even better than volume one. Ah, love. Teenaged and otherwise. I love Van Meter's writing. Something about the language really pleases me.