A 38 year old computer programmer goes under hypnosis and
goes back in time to when he was a kid in the 1980’s. We’ve seen this concept
before; it was the plot of Back To The
Future, and even a Twilight Zone
episode. The idea of going back in time and trying to right all the wrongs has
been used in many other books and movies, and often with zany results.
I won’t give the plot away, but I will say this; he goes
back to 1987 when he was 17 years old, and slips right back into 80’s fashion
and lingo. He doesn’t lead the kids in rebellion, as you might suspect. On the
contrary, he goes back to being a teenager emotionally because that’s the
position he’s in. He has serious thoughts on whether or not to stay back in
time, maybe start off the dot-com boom, become an independent record producer
and sign Kurt Cobain.
One of the reasons I loved this book so much was for the
same reason we all loved Back To The
Future. When kids see adult authority figures, they assume they were always
adults. Ask any high school student, they’ll say they think that the teacher
was always a bald middle aged math teacher. They’ll never guess that the
teacher used to smoke pot and blast Van Halen on the radio of his parents’ car.
They’ll never believe that their mom and dad were once teenagers.
Only Alex Robinson, author of Box Office Poison and Tricked
could pull this off. His comics are all about Generation-X growing old and
coming to terms with it.
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