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A review by caprica
Husbands by Tania del Rio, Sierra Hahn, M.S. Corley, Ron Chan, Brad Bell, Natalie Nourigat, Ben Dewey, Jane Espenson
4.0
3.5/5 stars.
Comic books/graphic novels aren't generally my preferred medium, but I loved the Husbands webseries and bought this as a result.
This was charming and a very quick read. The text is structured as a series of adventures, in which the eponymous husbands star; each adventure is a different, classic type of comic. The overall narrative is strung together through some very meta hand-waving.
I've no real complaints about the text. The story/stories are cute, the art similarly so, and there is enough humor to keep everything moving (both within the stories and from the narrator). There doesn't really seem a need to say a great deal about this: the adventures are short and self-contained and, as a result, not particularly involved. They do a good job manifesting the comic "types" they're intended to, though everything has (rather obviously) a queer twist, since the two main figures are gay men.
In short, it's a fun text, and has humor in line with the series it's been spun off from. If you liked the Husbands webseries and are looking for a light diversion, you'll probably like this, too.
Comic books/graphic novels aren't generally my preferred medium, but I loved the Husbands webseries and bought this as a result.
This was charming and a very quick read. The text is structured as a series of adventures, in which the eponymous husbands star; each adventure is a different, classic type of comic. The overall narrative is strung together through some very meta hand-waving.
I've no real complaints about the text. The story/stories are cute, the art similarly so, and there is enough humor to keep everything moving (both within the stories and from the narrator). There doesn't really seem a need to say a great deal about this: the adventures are short and self-contained and, as a result, not particularly involved. They do a good job manifesting the comic "types" they're intended to, though everything has (rather obviously) a queer twist, since the two main figures are gay men.
In short, it's a fun text, and has humor in line with the series it's been spun off from. If you liked the Husbands webseries and are looking for a light diversion, you'll probably like this, too.