One Con Glory is n’t your typical romcom novel . It stars a oddball culture writer who ’s more concerned in chasing down action figures than human being . But she finds love at a comic book convention — whether she likes it or not .
When done right , romantic comedy can be bang-up fun , filled with fizzing talks and cockeyed situation tailor - made to bring our lovebirds together in the ending . But recently , the romanticistic drollery literary genre has become synonymous with certain wearying figure : the dire - to - land - a - man career cleaning woman , the supersensitized - to - commitment man , the wise , digit - waggle best acquaintance , the backcloth of a major metropolitan surface area that ’s never heard the Holy Scripture “ ceding back . ”
Julie , the protagonist of Sarah Kuhn ’s One Con Glory , is n’t desperate to put down a man . When it hail to human relationships , Julie thinks the Prime Directive – Star Trek ’s doctrine of non - hindrance – is the best rule of thumb . She ’s the sort of girl who will cave in off sex if she notices that you moved her action digit , someone for whom the word “ romance ” evokes plotlines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Uncanny X - Men rather than a frame - and - blood encounter .
If Julie has one love of her life , it ’s Glory Gilmore , a superheroine from a third - tier ‘ 80s Marvel comic called The Periodic Seven . It ’s a family relationship that has been pregnant with disappointment ; Julie has possess four Glory Gilmore action figure , and each one has gather with a fateful end . But now that The Periodic Seven has been made into a successful goggle box series , she has one last probability to rectify her Glory .
work as a writer for a genre magazine , Julie shows up at Los Angeles ’ GinormoCon ( a stand - in for San Diego ’s Comic Con ) with a mission : snag herself a vintage Glory Gilmore action name , then retreat to safe cavern of her web - free liveliness with as little aroused scarring as potential . Since she ca n’t entirely escape human fundamental interaction , she hang with her ally Mitch ( an amusement newsman who dresses entirely in swag ) and his Centennial State - actor Braidbeard , a geekier - than - M snarker who trumps Julie ’s prickly attitude with an even more insufferable one . But the Con is n’t all sunniness and DC continuity argumentation ; Julie also has to suffer through a one - on - one audience with Jack Camden , virtuoso of The Periodic Seven and the only affair about the show that Julie really hat . Camden is the sort of role player who boasts in interviews that he ’s a huge oddball who still collects cartoon strip , and Julie is n’t corrupt it .
In many direction , One Con Glory follows a somewhat traditional romantic comedy path . There ’s a great quite a little of flirty fighting , and Julie does n’t recognize she ’s in a love story even when it ’s sitting on her chest seduce sludge - sludge eyes at her . There are geeky displays of love ( or , more accurately , eff displays of flake ) , the episodic convenient plot twist , and the requisite fallout before the ultimate reconciliation .
Kuhn ’s primal innovation is in her setting and her lineament – and how those characters take to convey themselves . The rephrasing of traditional quixotic characters as eccentric person could have feel pointless or exploitive – as if Kuhn were trying to assure the referee that she is “ one of us . ” But Glory is more heedful than that . Julie is a character who infer her world in term of popular refinement , and when she talks about her favorite comics and television set shows , she ’s not just nonchalantly discard off breadcrumbs to the lecturer ; she ’s revealing her worldview and her neuroticism . That ’s not to undercut some laugh - out - gimcrack funny vista , specially one where an extremely drunk Julie ( who reach herself the nickname “ Drulie ” ) make up one’s mind to take felonious action to find her cherished glorification .
One Con Glory is ultimately a loyal and hearty read , one where it ’s not enough for our heroine to get the guy wire . She has to get the activity material body , too .
you’re able to pick up a copy ofOne Con Gloryvia Alert Nerd Press .
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