Reviews

Shout Out by Andrew Wheeler

maiakobabe's review

5.0

I was very impressed by this collection of LGBTQ genre stories. Some standouts include one in which a teenage boy summons a demon to help him decide if he is gay; one of a Viking being reunited with his lover in Valhalla after a heroic death; one about an asexual and aromantic necromancer; one about rival food delivery service people (so much more at stake when you are racing against your ex); one about a nonbinary dentist to magical creatures who befriends a werewolf; and one about queer graffiti artists who live in a virtual reality. I contributed one illustration to this book, so I'm not exactly unbiased, but I think it's a very strong anthology!

thingquail's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

meepelous's review against another edition

4.0

An extremely creative and positive collection of queer stories, relationships are pretty central to the collection although I would not say that they are all romance. A whole spectrum of gender and sexuality are represented.

Race is another point of diversity in this book both as far as creators and characters.

Unless I missed something class was not really a focus of any of the stories. I'm even less sure if ability vs disability was touched on at all. My default is to kind of to assume no, but my bad memory is even worse when it comes to details in a short story collection. I flipped back through twice and nothing jumped out at me... Either way, we should be asking for MORE representation.

annemaries_shelves's review against another edition

5.0

I saw this randomly at Librarie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal and am so glad I picked it up on a whim.

This is an absolutely amazing, feel-good, chock full of talented writers/artists/letterers, #ownvoices anthology of SFF queer/LGBTQ2SIA+ comics.
Each story features different love stories (most romantic, some platonic) in various science fiction and fantasy genres at the YA/teen level of appropriateness (basically nothing explicit).
It’s basically everything happy and lovely that you want to read, with gorgeous artwork to boot.

While I really liked all the stories, a few particularly stood out and there’s some new creators I’ll be looking out for online.
Highly recommend if any of this remotely appeals to you.
Faves:
Amaranthine
The Name of the Forest
Ergi (this one made me cry in a good way)
Vows of Life
Sunlight
Glitches Get it Done
Shine So Bright
Manicita and the Songkeeper

Also... read the author bios - I got a real kick out of them!

kathytrithardt's review against another edition

4.0

This is pure queer joy and I just want more of it.

perusing_panels's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0