What happens when a group of friends who have distanced each other due to the events of 9/11 are once again forced back together? Well that’s the beginning of a new story. Source Point Press has once again brought another fantastic book from the mind of Frank Gogol, Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job.
Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job brings the adventure and excitement that the original Dead End Kids had with an all new group of characters and an all new story.
The beauty of this book and new series is that you can enjoy it without necessarily needing to have read the first, but you would be doing yourself a disservice by not reading it anyway. From the very first page, Frank Gogol’s writing sets the stage like an orchestra starting to play its symphony, with giving you a foundation of where each character is coming from up until the hook of the book where these friends are forced back into each other’s lives to solve the mystery at hand.
The challenge with first issue books is the balance of setting the world for the reader while at the same time moving the story forward. Additionally, anytime you have a series that follows a successful run from the initial story, the level of expectation is met with “how will this compare to the first?” Etc.
However, with Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job, you get the best of both worlds. The flow of the book and the story doesn’t have that downtime to set the stage while the story progresses at a fantastic pace. One thing that sets this book apart from its predecessor is the fact that this is not a sequel, rather it is a different story, with different characters but the same “Dead End Kids” feel.
The art from Nenad Cviticanin was spot on in capturing the essence of 2001 and 2008 all over again. I appreciate art work that helps move the story forward rather than hindering its progress and that momentum will propel the readers into wanting more.
At the end of the day, what’s not to love about getting a stand-alone story for those who are reading it for the first time but also has the ability to be entwined with the first series for those loyal readers who are back for more? That’s what you get from Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job, and as with the first, you’d be doing yourself a disservice to not pick up this book.
Rating: 5/5
Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job
Writer: Frank Gogol
Art: Nenad Cviticanin
Letters: Sean Rinehart
Published by Source Point Press
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