They must remain pure bridegrooms of Christ, pristine and unspoiled, dedicated already to a husband they have never met. Their bodies are changing and they must cover them lest they cause their brothers in Christ to stumble into an impure thought birthed from a spaghetti strap or an extra centimeter of thigh. Rave speaks to the reality that good Christan girls deal with on the daily. The comic creates a bubble for you to live in, one where Lauren spends her days toiling in the unreality of the church before ultimately breaking free as she burns a cig staring out over a heavily etched reality. Campbell’s characters don’t look real, but they feel real. There’s a universal appeal to the character acting, a strong example of what Scott McCloud would describe as a work evoking “Language” more than “Reality”. Simple figures and thick lines evoke the doodles your artsy friend would make in the margins of their American History notebook. A man died to save you from the Hell you deserve for your pre-marital sex, and your liberalism, and your naughty thoughts about other girls, and your cigarettes and your belief in the false doctrine of evolution, and you better not forget it. It’s a reminder for us and Lauren, Campbell’s meek protagonist, that God sent his son to be tortured and killed as a the fulfillment of all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant, atoning us of every wrong doing. The layout leads to the familiar shape of the cross sitting centered in every moment.
Structured, six panel grids with plenty of negative space between them dominate the pages.
It’s a matter of fact telling of a classic coming of age story, but oozing with a lived experience that’s hard to ignore, especially when faced with the memories you’ve been repressing for decades.Ĭampbell presents the story plainly. Jessica Campbell’s Rave transports readers into the world of the early 2000s church, enrapturing us with the battle between the black and white being preached from the pulpit and the messy world those youth group kids live in outside of Wednesday evening and Sunday morning.
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