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ramreadsagain's review
challenging
fast-paced
2.0
??????? I don’t know what I read/saw.
This collection of short stories is supposedly about ‘love’ but I would not have known this if I wasn’t told this by the blurb. I’d say only two of them have any kind of understandable narrative, one following a young man whose desire for female connection turns him into a monster, and another where a man’s inability to communicate and establish boundaries around his fetish leads to a miserable relationship. ‘Black Balloon’ was bizarre and I really do not understand anything about it.
Another follows a depressed mother with a depressed daughter who discovers slashfic. With this one and the final story (it includes plants, birth, maybe some generational psychosis?) I can see a couple of different interpretations but neither are particularly strong. I can’t even remember the one or two other stories.
I did overall enjoy the two I expanded on above (incel monster and fetish man) , and throughout the artwork was pretty good. However I just don’t understand why the others exist
This collection of short stories is supposedly about ‘love’ but I would not have known this if I wasn’t told this by the blurb. I’d say only two of them have any kind of understandable narrative, one following a young man whose desire for female connection turns him into a monster, and another where a man’s inability to communicate and establish boundaries around his fetish leads to a miserable relationship. ‘Black Balloon’ was bizarre and I really do not understand anything about it.
Another follows a depressed mother with a depressed daughter who discovers slashfic. With this one and the final story (it includes plants, birth, maybe some generational psychosis?) I can see a couple of different interpretations but neither are particularly strong. I can’t even remember the one or two other stories.
I did overall enjoy the two I expanded on above (incel monster and fetish man) , and throughout the artwork was pretty good. However I just don’t understand why the others exist
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Gore
Moderate: Body horror and Violence
counterfeitchocolatecoin's review
5.0
There’s currently only one other written review of this anthology on Goodreads so I wanted to write a few quick words about I Feel Love: it’s an excellent collection of weird stories. If you’re not a fan of underground/indie comics, it might not be for you; its goal is to be subversive and unusual, to tell stories that you wouldn’t find elsewhere. And it succeeds! Each of the six stories is visually distinct from the others, and each touches on different themes (barring the fact that both the first and last stories involve people turning into plant monsters, though to very different ends). Anyway, I recommend this anthology to comix fans everywhere!
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