A review by pilesandpiles
Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag by Ariel Schrag

2.0

In Likewise, Ariel Schrag represents, in comic form, the emotional tumult of her senior year of high school (1997-98), centered on an ongoing relationship with a girl she was in love with who (sort of) just wanted to be friends. Some parts of it are really good, but other parts made me feel embarrassed for Ariel -- the way I would feel if I knew my zines and journals from high school had been compiled into a book that anyone could buy on Amazon. It can get pretty painful reading almost 400 pages by a highly self-aware teen about her internal universe. I can see how this could be an important book for queer teens -- I think I would have liked it a lot more when I was Ariel's age in the comic.