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Giant Days (Single Issues) #52
Giant Days #52
In a follow-up to Holiday Special 2017, Esther goes for a job interview in London and reunites with her old friend Shelley Winters. While Esther covets Shelley’s metropolitan existence, Shelley is already tired of the rat race and her high pressure civil service job, and longs to publish brain-rotting books. So while Shelly tries to prepare Esther for her interview, Esther steers Shelley towards a glittering future among the literati!
29 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2019
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John Allison
311 books832 followersJohn Allison is the author and artist of the British webcomics Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery.
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August 7, 2019
Does anyone have any tips for what to do when the best print comedy comic series of all time is ending cause I'd sure appreciate it.
June 17, 2020
Hello, how are you? I hope you are doing okay!
I feel like this week has been flying by, I think that might be because I have been incredibly busy. I have been off of work for the most part but I have had a few appts, I am still social distancing as much as possible so when I go out for a dentist appt it feels so weird and a little tiring, a bunch of happenings are going on for my animal crossing island (this feels like huge news for me because I am still obsessed with this game), and I have some other things going on this week that just make things busier than what's been my normal lately. But the other night I picked up the next issue in of Giant Days because we all know I can not stop reading these and I am in love with this series.
SPOILERS AHEAD
In this issue we see Esther heading to her big interview. She is going to be staying in the city with an old friend. Upon her arrival Esther begins to covet her friend's life in the city however, she quickly learns that it is not always all that it appears to be. So Esther sets out to try and help her friend achieve her career dreams.
I loved this issue so much! It felt so real to things you might experience after college in a way. Trying to figure out what to do next, going on job interviews for jobs you might not even want because you know you need a job, wanting to move to a city that totally fascinates you but you are not sure if you actually can or how things would go, and just generally the whole end of college what do I do next issue. I finished graduate school about two years ago and I can totally attest that some of the issues Esther is tackling in this issue are all too real for me (even still today, looking at you the whole moving to your dream city issue). I can not wait to see what comes next for our trio!
Goodreads Rating: 5 Stars
I feel like this week has been flying by, I think that might be because I have been incredibly busy. I have been off of work for the most part but I have had a few appts, I am still social distancing as much as possible so when I go out for a dentist appt it feels so weird and a little tiring, a bunch of happenings are going on for my animal crossing island (this feels like huge news for me because I am still obsessed with this game), and I have some other things going on this week that just make things busier than what's been my normal lately. But the other night I picked up the next issue in of Giant Days because we all know I can not stop reading these and I am in love with this series.
SPOILERS AHEAD
In this issue we see Esther heading to her big interview. She is going to be staying in the city with an old friend. Upon her arrival Esther begins to covet her friend's life in the city however, she quickly learns that it is not always all that it appears to be. So Esther sets out to try and help her friend achieve her career dreams.
I loved this issue so much! It felt so real to things you might experience after college in a way. Trying to figure out what to do next, going on job interviews for jobs you might not even want because you know you need a job, wanting to move to a city that totally fascinates you but you are not sure if you actually can or how things would go, and just generally the whole end of college what do I do next issue. I finished graduate school about two years ago and I can totally attest that some of the issues Esther is tackling in this issue are all too real for me (even still today, looking at you the whole moving to your dream city issue). I can not wait to see what comes next for our trio!
Goodreads Rating: 5 Stars
July 9, 2020
I really enjoyed this one! I’m sad that the series is almost over.
July 24, 2019
This gives a hint of what might come, IE, how this series could continue after the trio graduates. Esther has a little publishing adventure in London while Daisy and Susan go to a spa, and I can totally relate to Susan at the spa.
July 13, 2019
Awww I want a friend like Esther! ♥
August 12, 2019
I love esther
November 11, 2020
Esther goes to London, stays with Shelly Winters (her “mentor & hair care icon.”), for interview in the City (at a “steaming soup of evil”); Susan & Daisy worried, so is Shelly who goes “dook, dook, dook” with a bottle of wine & who takes day off & meets her after. Esther remarks, after the interview:
“They must have mistaken my personal darkness for a blackened void-like soul.”
She helps Shelly break into lit world at party of creepy-handsy former lit teacher. Shelly’s pitch is for a children’s book about Tibkins, “a hedgehog with chicken legs.”
Esther: “our beautiful dark queen”
“They must have mistaken my personal darkness for a blackened void-like soul.”
She helps Shelly break into lit world at party of creepy-handsy former lit teacher. Shelly’s pitch is for a children’s book about Tibkins, “a hedgehog with chicken legs.”
Esther: “our beautiful dark queen”
January 1, 2021
Ah, jobs in the publishing world. What a dream.
October 22, 2023
Entretenido y divertido 😃
July 27, 2019
4.5 stars. Reviewing issue 49-52 here until vol 13 is available.
A great collection of issues, with lots of major development and touching emotional moments along with the usual breezy charm and laughs. I was so glad to see Lottie show up again before the series ends, for a fitting team up with Esther no less, and the cricket issue was good enough to make me think I might enjoy some of the recent sports comics Boom has published.
A great collection of issues, with lots of major development and touching emotional moments along with the usual breezy charm and laughs. I was so glad to see Lottie show up again before the series ends, for a fitting team up with Esther no less, and the cricket issue was good enough to make me think I might enjoy some of the recent sports comics Boom has published.
July 14, 2019
Marco este issue porque hasta aquí debería llegar el vol. 13. Estoy al día y no sé cómo superaré el final de esta serie porque ahora me ha hecho hasta llorar, no saben lo increíble que se siente porque se ha convertido en mi lectura de escape y todo, le tengo demasiado cariño. Solamente puedo pedir que el final tenga la misma calidad que ha tenido la serie.
July 28, 2019
Another cute issue for Giant Days. This is quite possibly my favorite cover of the series, of all time. I adore it. And I love that they're pushing the plot further for Esther. She needed a little chance to see the real world.
July 5, 2019
So fuuuun, as always! Loved getting to see Shelly Winters again!
July 11, 2019
Great issue. Always love some Quality-Esther-Time!
July 28, 2019
I cry, I sigh, and most importantly, I die
July 27, 2019
What am I gonna do until issue 53 :O And I really don't want to think what I will do after the finale of the series. It has been an amazing and beautiful experience <3
September 1, 2019
I DON'T WANT THIS SERIES TO END, IT'S SO GOOD.
December 7, 2019
The main struggle throughout this entire issue is one I constantly face so reading about it kinda lowkey gave me anxiety but in a good way.
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