A review by calamitymeat
Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

This book was clearly written for a very specific audience at a very specific point in time and now that it's almost 10 years since the first parts of this comic were written, the social commentary is a little grating and some of the humor feels a little dated. It's all stuff that I personally, and probably the artist as well now that we're farther into the future, find kind of cringe worthy. If I had read this back when it was being written, I probably would have loved it. Now that I'm older and the community and political views  I take part in and that are portrayed in this book have dramatically changed, it just feels outdated and unenjoyable. 

Also, I'm not saying no one else can make a comic about a group of queer people who are all just buddies but also go to a lot of protests, but I read this while I was also in the middle of reading Dykes To Watch Out For and I really cannot help but notice that this feels like a worse version of that. If I hadn't read them so close together, I probably wouldn't even notice, but they just feel so similar.