A review by discount_viscount
Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson

3.0

This comic, supposedly based on a real diary found in a gas station bathroom, is about the life of teenage reject Tammy Pierce and it's pretty brutal. It's reminiscent of a 1980's version of Lynda Barry's Maybonne but with less of the sweet, life-affirming parts. Everyone, everyone is awful to cheesy, overweight, sometime juvenile delinquent Tammy except for one dude who is both inarguably the handsomest boy in school and probably the only truly decent person Tammy knows and of course Tammy is in love with him but he's just being nice. Which is almost worse in a way than the other boy Tammy thinks likes her who openly treats her like crap. Oh, I almost forgot that there's the Narc who may actually like Tammy but she she treats him like crap. In other words, it's a pretty realistic portrayal of high school romance. I am going to read the next two in the series because I feel like things have to pick up for poor Tammy at some point, right?