MINISERIES FINALE
A first kiss, leaving friends behind, changing schools mid-year, and facing your biggest fears in public… Rites of Passage into the unknown for every kid trying to navigate the stormy seas of adolescence. All this and more in the poignant and triumphant final issue of the hit series!
Grommets #7 is a beautifully rendered conclusion to Rick Remender, Brian Posehn, and Brett Parson's scrappy coming of age story about being a skate punk in the 1980s. I could spend 70 more issues watching these crazy kids grow up, find new bands, learn new skate tricks, and getting into wild, retro-tinged shenanigans together. The letterhack who compared this book to Freaks and Geeks is absolutely true, and this is a comic whose collected edition I'll definitely recommend to my fellow Jorts Fest attendees. Read Full Review
The series has come to an end, but theres plenty of time left to go in the 1980s and lots of time left to go before high school graduation for Rick and Brian. Theres a lot that could happen. Itd be interesting to see where Remender, Posehn and Parson might take the series into Phoenix in the second half of the decade as the two protagonists move on ever closer to adulthood. Theres a definite evolution and awakening as pop culture moves beyond the Reagan era and the two kids contemplate what the future might be like. Read Full Review
Great series, but it wrapped up pretty quick. Right when we get used to Sacramento the story ends in Phoenix. I get that's the point they're going for, but it felt like Rick moving away would have had a bigger impact if we had more issues to get to know his friends.
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