Thursday, February 01, 2007
Hopeless Savages
What do you get when Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage; the king and queen of 70’s punk rock; grow up, clean up and have kids? The Hopeless Savage family! Skank Zero Hopeless Savage (aka Zero), the youngest of the kids in the Hopeless Savage clan, narrates the first volume of Jen Van Meter’s Hopeless Savages series. When Zero wakes up to find her parents kidnapped, she calls on Arsenal Fierce and Twitch Strummer, her brother and sister, to help her save them. Their adventure begins with a trip to rescue their other brother, Rat, from his life as a yuppie executive at a coffee company. Once Rat joins them and is fully reformed to his former punk rock glory, from spiked hair to padlock necklace, the Hopeless Savage kids are ready to rescue their parents. What follows is a hilarious story of punks, skinheads, martial arts, music, and a family that sticks together.
Christine Norrie’s illustrations capture the gritty sweetness of the Hopeless Savage family perfectly. While this GN has a lot going on in it, Van Meter makes the story work and leaves you wanting to spend more time with the Hopeless Savages.
