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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9781582405438
ISBN number: 1582405433
Label: Image Comics
Manufacturer: Image Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 104
Printing Date: January 11, 2006
Publishing house: Image Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 162649
Studio: Image Comics
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Ten years after the Rapture, beautiful occultist Bethany Black and her pet runt demon Bloato embark on a road trip to the last open gateway to heaven, in hopes of befriending God and escaping hell on earth.
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Strange Girl has a great premise, life after the rapture. The good people (including the heroine's parents) have gone to heaven and demons from hell has enslaved the rest.
The problems are a stylized art that makes it hard to follow the action, typos ('we all have a roll to play' instead of role, 'thrown' instead of throne), and a series of highly contrived situations to explain how a teen girl survives in this world.
That being said Rick Remender clearly has a direction and has certainly set up an interesing world and I'm willing to give volume 2 a try.
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While I found the art work aceptable the story line was a little to far out for my tastes.
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Strange Girl starts out looking like it will be about the life of a young girl who is the grey sheep of her very religious family. Young Bethany Black does not have the faith that her parents and brother have, and it seems that this series will look at how life can be for someone who doesn't believe when they are forced to have faith. Wrong. After about 4 pages, the rapture occurs, and Bethany's family, along with anyone else who is "righteous", ascend to Heaven leaving Bethany and the other undeserving people behind. God then declares that he is no longer offering Earth his protection, which allows Satan and his demons to rise from the Earth and take over.
Ten years later, Beth is grown up and is a slave of the demon Lord Belial. She has won the demon over due to the fact that she has taught herself magic, and can use protect spells (among others) to keep herself safe in a world full of viscious demons. Although she has a much better life than many humans, most of whom were either killed during the very first days after the rapture or are now used as sex slaves, Beth's life is hardly ideal. She works in one of Belial's bars in San Francisco alongside Bloato, a demon who is loyal to her for unknown reasons. When Bloato tells Bethany that there is one gate left on Earth that can get her to Heaven, the pair escape to try to get to Vatican City in order to save themselves.
Strange Girl is characterized by intense action scenes as well as moments of philisophical thought about religion. The book can go from over-the-top action to intelligent conversation pretty quickly. The characters are also well-written and developed; Beth didn't get into Heaven not because she's a bad person, but because she has no faith. She loves her family, but they still were difficult to live with. Bloato's speech pattern and attitude are very amusing, and Belial's role of a bizarre father figure is an interesting twist on the idea of demons.
This book will probably be a little offensive to many people, but it is still worth taking a look at. It's an interesting look at the people who aren't righteous, and is hilarious as well.
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