![]() Altogether, a story that will have readers assessing their own obsession with “staying connected”. ![]() The art by Cavallaro is luminous and vivacious. The story by Rapp is bleak, engaging,and commanding. Overall, an excellent graphic novel that is a mirror portrait of society’s obsession with technology and order. By book’s end, the underground falls apart, and Angela becomes part of GC society once again until she finds liberation in all its glory. Eventually she meets the author of the book, who her favorite teacher, just so happens to take care of, as everything comes full circle for our heroine. This is also where she meets kindred soul in Gladys, someone who finally sees Angela for who she is, at the same time, she envelopes herself in what the world was before Guarantee Committee took over the world. Through a series of mishaps, she finds an underground movement where mostly teenagers live, and they can eat real food and even take in oxygen from a can. As she struggles her awareness of the shadowy organization known as the Guarantee Committee, it is only spurred by a book written by a famous theorist who predicted the reality Angela lives in. We meet Angela a teenager who notices how certain things are not normal, such as everyone being implanted with a chip to track their every move, an unhealthy obsession with the use of language and real food has been replaced by cement like material which has yielded some fatal incidents. In Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro’s fascinating story Decelerate Blue, we get to see the Armageddon through the eyes of one such teenager. Growing up in a dystopian future, is never easy one that would break most adults but makes teenage lives thrive. Another good example is Warm Bodies which the film doesn’t do justice to the writer’s inner monologue of the main character. This is what makes the Mortal Instruments books so fascinating to both teenagers and adults, as the story is written with such clarity that the believability is easy for most readers. This is even more prevalent in young adult fiction, where teen angst dances in the pale moonlight of the apocalypse. (The name of the song is 'I Just Can't Stop It', from an album of the same name.) It turns out to be almost a summary of this amazing dystopian graphic novel, Decelerate Blue, which is set in a hyperkinetic future. This is something all teenagers deal with at some point, where no one understands them. DECELERATE BLUE by Adam Rapp & Mike Cavallaro There's an old English Beat song that ends 'faster faster faster faster STOP (I'm dead)'. ![]() As they usually feel like voyeurs to the story, assuming certain perceptions while experiencing others. Outsiders in literature usually are some of the best characters for a reader to follow.
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