Nick Drnaso 的漫畫無情地揭示了郊區(qū)貧瘠的一成不變。通過一系列八卦的青少年，貝弗利現(xiàn)代迷失的靈魂與幾乎沒有壓抑的性焦慮和破壞他們所說的每一句話的社會不安全感作斗爭。一群青少年在高速公路邊撿垃圾——調(diào)情、打扮，并無視他們中間可能有暴力傾向的孤獨(dú)者。一名大學(xué)生帶著她的男朋友，和她的高中熟人一起參加了一場災(zāi)難性的家庭聚會。一名年輕女子在她工作的比薩店經(jīng)歷了一次創(chuàng)傷性事件，其后果揭示了表面下醞釀的種族緊張局勢。一次又一次，Drnaso 完美的郊區(qū)蔓延和糊狀的中西部主角的文明外表在暴力和安靜的殘暴面前破裂。 Drnaso 在《貝弗利》中的凄涼社會諷刺揭示了對 21 世紀(jì)存在的社會環(huán)境的出色掌控，與托德·索隆茲、薩姆·利普賽特和丹尼爾·克勞斯的黑色漫畫作品相呼應(yīng)。準(zhǔn)確而令人難以忘懷的敘述，貝弗利的每一章都揭示了我們所生活的世界的一些新而熟悉的東西。
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway-flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized facade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality. Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of Beverly reveals something new-and yet familiar-about the world in which we live.
