One element of García’s book that needs further clarification is his references to an “ideal reader” (27). Though he admits that no ideal reader exists (38), García frames discussion around the bodies of knowledge that an ideal reader would have to be familiar with in order to understand the complexities of the works that he analyses. The diversity and longevity of this particular comic universe, however, means that different reading publics with all kinds of knowledge (or lack of it) will take many different things from reading these works. Moreover, there are passages in the book in which the views of the Hernandez brothers are a little too prominent. García makes no secret of the fact that he is a fan of the works he scrutinizes; his enthusiasm is infectious. Occasionally, there is a slight lack of critical distance, such as when he relies too much on the authors’ opinions about their own work.

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拉丁裔/o 中西部读者。由 Omar Valerio-Jiménez、Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez 和 Claire F. Fox 编辑。厄巴纳：伊利诺伊大学出版社，2017 年。Pp。352. 36 张照片。$95.00 布；28.00 美元纸。

García 书中需要进一步澄清的一个要素是他提到了“理想的读者”（27）。尽管他承认不存在理想的读者 (38)，但加西亚围绕理想读者必须熟悉的知识体系进行讨论，以便理解他分析的作品的复杂性。然而，这个特定漫画世界的多样性和长寿意味着具有各种知识（或缺乏知识）的不同阅读大众将从阅读这些作品中获得许多不同的东西。而且，书中还有一些段落，埃尔南德斯兄弟的观点有点过于突出。加西亚毫不掩饰自己是他仔细研究的作品的粉丝。他的热情很有感染力。偶尔会稍微缺少临界距离，