My bad for expecting linear storytelling, but I really liked this. The art is gorgeous, loved the musical references, and the characters are fantastic.
I loved Alvin who loves Chuck Berry. A male classmate asks him if he's going to the sock hop because he loves the 50's and Alvin launches into this awesome rhetoric: how can you have so much nostalgia for something you know nothing of and has only been recollected onto you through a lens of blind idealism and the erasure of anything outside of the white heternormative middle class perspective? How can you ask me (a young black man) to go to a ‘sock hop' and ignore the impact Black communities have on American culture, while simultaneously being systematically barred from its society. With our identities seized and manipulated for the sake of commercial and political gain.” And then when a girl asks him if he's going he says yes and offers to pick her up.
I was a little confused but still enamored with the reoccurring story of Miriam and George and their love of the Beatles through the decades.
I really enjoyed the story of Kennedy and Rhea who want to be writers.
