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4.47 AVERAGE
4.47 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh my god I love this book. It's so amazing. Reading Dykes to Watch Out For feels like I've lived my whole life only able to drink drops of water every so often and now I can stand under a drinkable waterfall for hours. I love this. It feels like it was made for me, a butch who loves soap opera drama, comedy, queer people and specifically other butches. I do feel like I'm about to tear up when I think about how the main character (and several of the side characters) are butch and that's the least interesting thing about them. It feels like so much mainstream media with queer people either makes the fact that they're queer their whole character, or it has nothing to do with them at all. This comic, on the other hand, gets it. Queer people have whole lives that we live and go weeks without thinking about the fact we're queer, but we're never straight and that impacts our whole lives. This was the most reliable thing I've ever seen. I love this. It also did a good job with not sanitizing everybody's experience, and showing sex, without feeling exploitative or objectifying. This is amazing. It makes me proud to be the way I am, and I fear adulthood slightly less. It gives me hope for my future.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Transphobia
Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, War
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's Lesbian Doonesbury and that's fun until it's not. For me, once the W. Bush administration hit, I couldn't enjoy myself because I understood what that was like as my political consciousness was developing at that time, and it's only gotten so much worse since.
I loved all the characters of Alison Bechdel's various communities, and when the focus was on their relationships I was locked in, reading dozens of strips at a time. Mo serves as central character and constant pessimist for the world. It's charming on her because she serves as the neurotic crash-out of the group, it's not overwhelming when she's the only one talking about doomsday and the politics of everyone else are those of and for their community.
The first 2/3 I will probably pick back up, but that last slog feels like something I could only truly enjoy reading as it came out on the regular basis in the local queer publications.
I loved all the characters of Alison Bechdel's various communities, and when the focus was on their relationships I was locked in, reading dozens of strips at a time. Mo serves as central character and constant pessimist for the world. It's charming on her because she serves as the neurotic crash-out of the group, it's not overwhelming when she's the only one talking about doomsday and the politics of everyone else are those of and for their community.
The first 2/3 I will probably pick back up, but that last slog feels like something I could only truly enjoy reading as it came out on the regular basis in the local queer publications.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Weirdly comforting. History repeats, even within the past 40 years.
funny
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes