Jobnik!

I fully appreciate the depth and curiosity of this novel.  I feel that, to it's core, Jobnik! reflects the basic experience that an American born Jewish individual would have over in Israel.  Although incredibly sexual, I did reference in class all of the things I appreciated about the novel.  Unmentioned was my criticisms, since I felt like agreeing with Dr. J more than disagreeing on this particular day.  So I will allow for my grievances to be addressed in my anonymous blog.

Particularly disturbing to me was not the graphic intensity of the sexual adventures, but rather how Miriam appeared to base her whole life surrounding them.  Her adventures in a foreign land were not consistent with her interactions with the natives as much as her interactions with the "douche-bag" stereotype of men she interacted with.  I felt like this took away from the novel on a greater whole.  I think that she, in essence, used it as a way to vent about her situations and, kind of, spit in the faces of the men that wronged her.  Not that there's anything wrong with her getting the last laugh among her acquaintances over there, but really I had hoped for a more mature out-look on this kind of life.

That was the only criticism I had for Jobnik!  However, I would like to stress how much I enjoyed and approved of her creative essence, especially during the funeral for Bashir (sp?).  I felt like this was actually the most moving, and visually appealing, scene in any graphic novel we have encountered, barring none.  The direct impact not only on the community as a whole but on every part of the life situations she has encountered couldn't even be hoped to be grasped, but through thorough word play, she seems to attempt to encompass the general feeling.  A man they based their lives around was assassinated and it was definitely going to impact them down to the core.  It still is impacting them today.  This allows me to generally interpret the feelings at a minimum and really feel the kind of core impact that she encountered through this dramatic event.