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@ Indie Pulp-- a review of 120 Days of Simon

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120 Days of Simon is a self-promotional comic disguised as an autobiography and travelogue.  Actually, this comic shares more in common with reality television than it does with most comics; it’s about a semi-famous person being semi-famous in Sweden, but the reader is never sure what he’s supposed to be getting out of it.  Maybe it’s a sense of living vicariously through Simon as he gets stoned and screws his way across Sweden.  Sure, there’s some background story about Simon breaking up with his girlfriend before his trip so he can be “free” to do whatever comes his way during the trip, but that’s about as deep or as personal as it gets.  Gärdenfors’ comic picks out only a handful of the people he met on his journey, usually showing either the girls he had sex with or the guys who gave him drugs.

You can read the full review at Indie Pulp.