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Sunday 26 January 2020

My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies Review (Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips)


Two junkies in rehab fall in love and get back into the habit. But one of them isn’t who they say they are…

My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, a “novella”, is the first book in Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal series, and their first collaboration in a long time, that I didn’t think much of. The story is a bit too one-note and unexciting: two young junkies sneaking around rehab while the girl recounts the artists she idolises who had drug problems like Billie Holiday, Gram Parsons and Van Gogh. The twist ending was very meh.

Sean Phillips’ art is fine as usual, though a couple panels looked weird as he drew the girl’s head bigger than her body(!), and I liked that Dr. Patti looked like Patti Smith, tying into the musicians theme. Jacob Phillips’ colours was the one aspect of the book that really stood out for me. They’re messy, vivid, pretty, kinda impressionistic and trippy, merging into one another, all of which reflects the druggy story – very cool.

A disappointingly dull addition to the series, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies isn’t badly written but it’s also not very interesting to read either.

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