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comics prodigy Adrian Tomine has built a loyal following off the slice-of-life Nerve since '91. His latest arc (issues 9-11) follows moody movie-theater owner Ben Tanaka, who struggles to hang on to his Asian girlfriend while secretly lusting after white ladies. He's sad and somewhat despicable, and
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Tomine has not completely escaped criticism, however. As Derek Parker Royal wrote in MELUS; "Tomine’s resistance to racialized identity in his works, for which some Asian-Americans have criticized him, is called into question by his recent efforts to confront Asian-American subject matters. As a
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is his only work that fully deals with themes of being a young Asian-American male in
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result, one can read his semi-autobiographic comics as a chronicle of the limits and responsibilities of ethnic representation."
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women. When Miko begins to resent what she interprets as a rejection of both her Asian heritage and of herself, she moves to
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on their list of "Autumn’s most eagerly awaited new books." After its release, critic Ken Tucker gave Tomine's novel
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was also named to multiple Best of 2007 lists for both books in general and graphic novels, including those from
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an "A" grade, calling it a "graphic narrative as piercingly realistic as any prose fiction."
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was originally serialized in issues #9 through #11 of Tomine's comic book series
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