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Ménage À 3 Volume 1 by David Lumsdon, Gisèle Lagacé

ljrinaldi's review

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2.0

Apparently this is a very popular web comic. If this is a web comic that you enjoyed, well, here it is all collected. Have fun.

For the rest of this, this is a bunch of tits and ass jokes, reminiscent of Threes Company but with more NSFW events added in.

If you enjoy look at Didi, the dumb, blonde, large breasted room mate, wander through the stories wondering about such things as if Gary needs sex (he is a 29 year old virgin), then you would love this series of stories.

I'm sure these are all very funny, for the right audiences, and I am not a prude, but how long can you make fun of Gary for being a virgin, before it gets old, very fast.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

jmanchester0's review

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4.0

So, Kurt Busiek‰ЫЄs intro describes this as a ‰ЫПsex farce‰Ыќ.

Appropriate.

Frankly, it‰ЫЄs a lot of fun. A collected webcomic, I‰ЫЄm sure it‰ЫЄs been described as a ‰ЫПThree‰ЫЄs Company for our generation.‰Ыќ

An enjoyable read - and definitely rated ‰ЫПR‰Ыќ.

Thanks to NetGalley and Udon Comics for a copy in return for an honest review.

unsquare's review

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3.0

Full disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book from NetGalley.

Ménage a 3 is a French-Canadian webcomic about the sexy hijinks of three roommates - Gary, the 29-year-old virgin, Zii, the bisexual punk rock chick, and Didi, the busty, Amazonian French-Canadian. It's essentially Three's Company but smutty.

This collection includes the first two years of the webcomic, reformatted in a vertical layout. Although the art by Gisèle Lagacé is far more polished and consistent than other nascent webcomics I've read, this volume can't escape its origins on the web. It's essentially plotless, with romantic entanglements and sexual confusion the only real driving force throughout.

The thing about webcomics, though, is that they can be strangely addictive. When I first discovered Questionable Content, I read at least a decade of strips over the course of a few days and I regret nothing.

The tendency in webcomics toward episodic storytelling coupled with ongoing but loosely defined story arcs means that it's all about the characters. Any individual strip is usually about pushing those characters closer together or further apart and changing the status quo so slowly (if ever) that you experience the narrative equivalent of boiling a frog.

I liked this volume enough that I'll probably keep reading even though not much happened besides a lot of nudity, innuendo and silliness. It helps that the art is pretty great and reading it isn't a terrible way to pass the time. Speaking of which, Lagacé has done the occasional work for Archie comics, which makes total sense because her style is perfect for those books.
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