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content warnings: hospitalised parents, violence, fatphobia, mentions of religion-related homophobia
representation: bisexual chinese-american main character, gay sikh indian-american side character, gay side character, side m/m relationship, dyslexic side character, side character with anxiety, fat side character
With the glowing praise I've seen this book get, I was expecting it to be better than a mediocre comedy. This book oftentimes gets called "She's the Man meets Pitch Perfect", but honestly I would much rather watch both those movies as opposed to ever reading this again.
A big praise I've seen this book get is the characters, in particular Jordan, which makes no sense to me because she was so aggressively bland. Though, that might be because I missed a lot of her character due to my skimming the several pages we would get every chapter that was just her internal monologue. It got so monotonous to try to read it, and a lot of what I read of them was really boring.
I'm not sure if I was meant to like Marcus and Erik, but they were both comprised of one personality trait each and I never gave a shit about them. Trav was okay, if super underdeveloped, and Isaac started out as a fun character who got incredibly generic by the end.
Jon Cox, Mama and Nihal were the only characters I genuinely liked, and I honestly would have preferred books about them.
Also, the romance, oh god, the romance was done so badly. First off, there was literally no indication that Jordan and her love interest had feelings beyond pure friendship until their faces were suddenly an inch apart, which is a trope I'm not a big fan of. But the romance also just felt like it was dominating certain scenes, and literally every single time there would be a "cute" scene between the two I would skim the entire thing.
An aspect of this book I liked was Jordan figuring out she was bi, mostly just because it was gradual and anti-climactic. But one thing I didn't like had nothing to do with the book itself and is instead something that I've seen multiple other reviewers saying. If you've heard that Jordan has a female love interest in this, don't listen to that person because she doesn't. I don't know what book other people read but the closest we get to a female love interest is Jordan kissing a (straight) girl.
There's a lot of discussion of gender and identity in this book which were handled well enough, I guess, but its incorporation was so clunky I could never take it seriously. It would be like funny scene with the Sharps, pause for page-long introspection about gender, resume funny scene, which kept really disrupting the flow of the book for me.
I don't understand the hype around this book at all, and am now a lot less excited to read Riley Redgate's newest book, Final Draft.
representation: bisexual chinese-american main character, gay sikh indian-american side character, gay side character, side m/m relationship, dyslexic side character, side character with anxiety, fat side character
With the glowing praise I've seen this book get, I was expecting it to be better than a mediocre comedy. This book oftentimes gets called "She's the Man meets Pitch Perfect", but honestly I would much rather watch both those movies as opposed to ever reading this again.
A big praise I've seen this book get is the characters, in particular Jordan, which makes no sense to me because she was so aggressively bland. Though, that might be because I missed a lot of her character due to my skimming the several pages we would get every chapter that was just her internal monologue. It got so monotonous to try to read it, and a lot of what I read of them was really boring.
I'm not sure if I was meant to like Marcus and Erik, but they were both comprised of one personality trait each and I never gave a shit about them. Trav was okay, if super underdeveloped, and Isaac started out as a fun character who got incredibly generic by the end.
Jon Cox, Mama and Nihal were the only characters I genuinely liked, and I honestly would have preferred books about them.
Also, the romance, oh god, the romance was done so badly. First off, there was literally no indication that Jordan and her love interest had feelings beyond pure friendship until their faces were suddenly an inch apart, which is a trope I'm not a big fan of. But the romance also just felt like it was dominating certain scenes, and literally every single time there would be a "cute" scene between the two I would skim the entire thing.
An aspect of this book I liked was Jordan figuring out she was bi, mostly just because it was gradual and anti-climactic. But one thing I didn't like had nothing to do with the book itself and is instead something that I've seen multiple other reviewers saying. If you've heard that Jordan has a female love interest in this, don't listen to that person because she doesn't. I don't know what book other people read but the closest we get to a female love interest is Jordan kissing a (straight) girl.
There's a lot of discussion of gender and identity in this book which were handled well enough, I guess, but its incorporation was so clunky I could never take it seriously. It would be like funny scene with the Sharps, pause for page-long introspection about gender, resume funny scene, which kept really disrupting the flow of the book for me.
I don't understand the hype around this book at all, and am now a lot less excited to read Riley Redgate's newest book, Final Draft.
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content warnings: violence, murder, rape, abortion
Before I start this review you should know that Mad Max: Fury Road is quite possibly my favourite movie, or at least in my top three. Just so you can understand how much it breaks my heart that I (for the most part) didn't like this graphic novel.
I'll get into more details on each section in a second, but there are two general points I have first:
1) The art style really didn't gel with me. I'm not saying it was bad because objectively speaking, it's not, it's just really not my kind of style and that made it harder for me to engage.
2) With very little exception, this entire graphic novel was super unnecessary. Not a criticism, just an observation.
NUX & IMMORTAN JOE
This was my least favourite of the entire thing so it's really unfortunate that it was the first one. I don't really understand what happened as it kept switching back and forth between Nux and Joe, and it was so boring I don't even care.
FURIOSA
This was a really unnecessary story - the entire thing is Furiosa deciding to take the wives - but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked that more focus was on the wives rather than Furiosa, and seeing them bond cleared my skin and watered my crops. In particular when the Dag defended Cheedo because I highkey ship them.
MAD MAX #1
Most of this was just a recap of the first three movies and I'm not gonna lie, I skimmed most of it. The stuff at the end was interesting, though.
MAD MAX #2
Easily the best of the entire graphic novel. It gives you context for the child Max keeps seeing in his PTSD flashbacks in the movie, and just overall has a really nice story that had me genuinely tearing up.
THE WAR RIG
I've gotta be real with you: I skimmed literally all of this and I have no regrets, it was so uninteresting.
Even if you're a die-hard Fury Road fan (like me), I wouldn't recommend reading this, or at least not all the way through. If you really want to read it, only read Furiosa's and Max's parts.
Before I start this review you should know that Mad Max: Fury Road is quite possibly my favourite movie, or at least in my top three. Just so you can understand how much it breaks my heart that I (for the most part) didn't like this graphic novel.
I'll get into more details on each section in a second, but there are two general points I have first:
1) The art style really didn't gel with me. I'm not saying it was bad because objectively speaking, it's not, it's just really not my kind of style and that made it harder for me to engage.
2) With very little exception, this entire graphic novel was super unnecessary. Not a criticism, just an observation.
NUX & IMMORTAN JOE
This was my least favourite of the entire thing so it's really unfortunate that it was the first one. I don't really understand what happened as it kept switching back and forth between Nux and Joe, and it was so boring I don't even care.
FURIOSA
This was a really unnecessary story - the entire thing is Furiosa deciding to take the wives - but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked that more focus was on the wives rather than Furiosa, and seeing them bond cleared my skin and watered my crops. In particular when the Dag defended Cheedo because I highkey ship them.
MAD MAX #1
Most of this was just a recap of the first three movies and I'm not gonna lie, I skimmed most of it. The stuff at the end was interesting, though.
MAD MAX #2
Easily the best of the entire graphic novel. It gives you context for the child Max keeps seeing in his PTSD flashbacks in the movie, and just overall has a really nice story that had me genuinely tearing up.
THE WAR RIG
I've gotta be real with you: I skimmed literally all of this and I have no regrets, it was so uninteresting.
Even if you're a die-hard Fury Road fan (like me), I wouldn't recommend reading this, or at least not all the way through. If you really want to read it, only read Furiosa's and Max's parts.
content warnings: near-drowning, infidelity
representation: gay main character, japanese-american side character, portuguese-american side character, mlm side character
This was a perfectly inoffensive contemporary that, quite frankly, seems really underrated. It's about a girl who secretly loves escapology and her making friends through her weird passion, why have more people not been talking about this??
The plot is so close to being ridiculous, but it somehow always stays just grounded enough that you believe a teenage girl would be getting out of a straitjacket in a water tank in a speakeasy (yes, that is actually something that happens in this book). I credit most of the realism(?) to the characters, all who feel like people I know.
While none of them will leave a lasting impression on me, I still really enjoyed reading about each character because they all have depth and flaws, something which it seems like all characters should have and yet so many authors still fail. Erin Callahan is not one of those authors. Mattie and Will both have POVs throughout the book which obviously helps you to understand them, but even in each others' POVs you still feel like you would know them even without their thoughts.
Miyu, Stella and Frankie were all such fun additions, too, particularly Stella and Frankie as I didn't think either of them were going to be very important. I loved how we got to learn so much about Miyu without her saying very much at all, and I'm not going to lie the end had me tearing up a little.
The fact that there are two characters, Betsy and Meadow, who should so perfectly fit the bitchy mean girl trope and yet Callahan decides to not take that route should be commended. Both (admittedly, Betsy more so) are made to be human beings who are more than just popular girls and who can actually be gasp nice people.
The feminism sprinkled throughout the book also made me very happy. There were discussions on women being looked over in history, how a person finding gay people so fascinating can actually be harmful, how much we romanticise the past when it comes to discrimination, Mattie coming to the realisation that her secret is nowhere near as high-stakes as Will's, and so much more! I also really appreciated that there was no pressuring of Will to come out, from the narrative or the characters.
This is a fun book that more people should read because it was honestly a delight.
representation: gay main character, japanese-american side character, portuguese-american side character, mlm side character
This was a perfectly inoffensive contemporary that, quite frankly, seems really underrated. It's about a girl who secretly loves escapology and her making friends through her weird passion, why have more people not been talking about this??
The plot is so close to being ridiculous, but it somehow always stays just grounded enough that you believe a teenage girl would be getting out of a straitjacket in a water tank in a speakeasy (yes, that is actually something that happens in this book). I credit most of the realism(?) to the characters, all who feel like people I know.
While none of them will leave a lasting impression on me, I still really enjoyed reading about each character because they all have depth and flaws, something which it seems like all characters should have and yet so many authors still fail. Erin Callahan is not one of those authors. Mattie and Will both have POVs throughout the book which obviously helps you to understand them, but even in each others' POVs you still feel like you would know them even without their thoughts.
Miyu, Stella and Frankie were all such fun additions, too, particularly Stella and Frankie as I didn't think either of them were going to be very important. I loved how we got to learn so much about Miyu without her saying very much at all, and I'm not going to lie the end had me tearing up a little.
The fact that there are two characters, Betsy and Meadow, who should so perfectly fit the bitchy mean girl trope and yet Callahan decides to not take that route should be commended. Both (admittedly, Betsy more so) are made to be human beings who are more than just popular girls and who can actually be gasp nice people.
The feminism sprinkled throughout the book also made me very happy. There were discussions on women being looked over in history, how a person finding gay people so fascinating can actually be harmful, how much we romanticise the past when it comes to discrimination, Mattie coming to the realisation that her secret is nowhere near as high-stakes as Will's, and so much more! I also really appreciated that there was no pressuring of Will to come out, from the narrative or the characters.
This is a fun book that more people should read because it was honestly a delight.
1) Fence Vol. 1 ★★★★
representation: japanese-american side character, multiple black side characters, various other side poc, multiple mlm characters
I have literally no new thoughts since Vol 1, except that Harvard and Aiden need to make out asap or I'm gonna scream
representation: japanese-american side character, multiple black side characters, various other side poc, multiple mlm characters
I have literally no new thoughts since Vol 1, except that Harvard and Aiden need to make out asap or I'm gonna scream
representation: japanese-american side character, multiple black side characters, various other side poc, multiple mlm characters
Guys, GUYS, this graphic novel is so! freaking! good! The characters and their dynamics are fuckin gr8. Nicholas and Seiji are rivals and literally every time their faces get remotely close to each other I'm just waiting for them to kiss. Honestly, though, I'm more intrigued by the possibility of Harvard and Aiden's relationship.
Also, the art is so fucking good.
The cliffhanger would have been painful but luckily ya girl has the rest of the issues so brb, I'm going to start reading that.
(also, sorry about how non-descriptive the rep info is, the comic doesn't give many details and I can't find anything online)
Guys, GUYS, this graphic novel is so! freaking! good! The characters and their dynamics are fuckin gr8. Nicholas and Seiji are rivals and literally every time their faces get remotely close to each other I'm just waiting for them to kiss. Honestly, though, I'm more intrigued by the possibility of Harvard and Aiden's relationship.
Also, the art is so fucking good.
The cliffhanger would have been painful but luckily ya girl has the rest of the issues so brb, I'm going to start reading that.
(also, sorry about how non-descriptive the rep info is, the comic doesn't give many details and I can't find anything online)
content warnings: transphobia, racism, blood, body horror
representation: latina main character, italian-pakistani trans love interest, latina trans side character, wlw side character
I now need to read all of Anna-Marie McLemore's other books because this was gorgeous. The prose, the characters, the relationships, the conflicts, everything. It was all beautiful.
I'm pretty sure that the biggest praise McLemore gets is for their magical writing, and it's so well-deserved. Every sentence they write is lyrical, and frankly hard to figure out whether it's a metaphor or is meant to be taken literally, but you don't even care.
I'm not going to lie, the first 100 or so pages didn't grab me the way I wanted to, but then the plot picked up and I became immediately invested. You also began to really learn more about the characters, some secrets being revealed at around that point, which meant that the rest of the book was just magic.
The characters and the relationships they have with each other is the most important aspect of this book as it's entirely character-driven, and thankfully they were all so incredibly fascinating. Miel and Sam are both such beautiful, broken people and seeing them coming together and falling apart should have gotten tedious but only made me care about them more, somehow. As someone who isn't a big fan of friends-to-lovers, this relationship was wonderful, and as you're reading you can definitely tell how personal their romance was to McLemore.
Aracely was such an interesting character, one I went from liking to distrusting to loving to hating and everything in between. She's an incredibly flawed person, but one you can never not empathise with. Learning of her past with the lead characters was both lovely and heartbreaking, and her relationship with both Miel and Sam were so different but equally enjoyable.
The Bonner sisters were such great antagonists, never been made into cliche villains and McLemore always making sure that you knew they were people who were deeply flawed. My only wish is that we had gotten more of Lian and Chloe, a bit too much of the focus being on Peyton and especially Ivy.
I know some people don't like to read author's notes, but please, if you read this book, read the author's note because it is so incredibly beautiful and will have you in tears.
representation: latina main character, italian-pakistani trans love interest, latina trans side character, wlw side character
I now need to read all of Anna-Marie McLemore's other books because this was gorgeous. The prose, the characters, the relationships, the conflicts, everything. It was all beautiful.
I'm pretty sure that the biggest praise McLemore gets is for their magical writing, and it's so well-deserved. Every sentence they write is lyrical, and frankly hard to figure out whether it's a metaphor or is meant to be taken literally, but you don't even care.
I'm not going to lie, the first 100 or so pages didn't grab me the way I wanted to, but then the plot picked up and I became immediately invested. You also began to really learn more about the characters, some secrets being revealed at around that point, which meant that the rest of the book was just magic.
The characters and the relationships they have with each other is the most important aspect of this book as it's entirely character-driven, and thankfully they were all so incredibly fascinating. Miel and Sam are both such beautiful, broken people and seeing them coming together and falling apart should have gotten tedious but only made me care about them more, somehow. As someone who isn't a big fan of friends-to-lovers, this relationship was wonderful, and as you're reading you can definitely tell how personal their romance was to McLemore.
Aracely was such an interesting character, one I went from liking to distrusting to loving to hating and everything in between. She's an incredibly flawed person, but one you can never not empathise with. Learning of her past with the lead characters was both lovely and heartbreaking, and her relationship with both Miel and Sam were so different but equally enjoyable.
The Bonner sisters were such great antagonists, never been made into cliche villains and McLemore always making sure that you knew they were people who were deeply flawed. My only wish is that we had gotten more of Lian and Chloe, a bit too much of the focus being on Peyton and especially Ivy.
I know some people don't like to read author's notes, but please, if you read this book, read the author's note because it is so incredibly beautiful and will have you in tears.
content warnings: violence, death, gore, self-harm, suicidal ideation, overdose mention, sexism, lesbophobic comments
representation: japanese-american bisexual main character, japanese mlm polyamorous side character, black lesbian side character, every other character is japanese
This book was so much better than I expected!! For such a short stand-alone it packs such a punch and, despite how well it wrapped up, part of me wants another book.
Reiko as a lead character is fantastic, if not just for how refreshing she is. She's a vengeful, angry woman who isn't all talk and no action. She wants people to hurt, but the ways in which she displays this is so real and raw that I couldn't help but feel empathetic for her, even when she's at her worst. It's also really refreshing to have a protagonist like this who isn't white, as they all seem to be.
The side characters were a bit more hit-and-miss for me. Miyu, as you discover more about her, is an amazing character, but every other character from her time period feel average at best. Kenji and Sierra were both fun characters who I think we didn't get to see enough of, but everyone else in Reiko's world felt really fake. Their decisions didn't feel human and it made it impossible to really care when Reiko was only with them. There were also some characters, mostly Reiko's family, who I wish we could have gotten a bit more from.
Most of the characters lacking an amount of depth was more than made up for by the great plot. The plot in the past was easily the more exciting of the two, but the melodramatic nature of the plot in present day made it so it wasn't a chore to return to the present. The plot moved very fast, as it has to for such a short book, but it never felt rushed. This also meant that there were no unnecessary scenes of filler; every scene included in the book was necessary.
I flew through this book - finishing it in a couple hours - and would highly recommend picking it up.
representation: japanese-american bisexual main character, japanese mlm polyamorous side character, black lesbian side character, every other character is japanese
This book was so much better than I expected!! For such a short stand-alone it packs such a punch and, despite how well it wrapped up, part of me wants another book.
Reiko as a lead character is fantastic, if not just for how refreshing she is. She's a vengeful, angry woman who isn't all talk and no action. She wants people to hurt, but the ways in which she displays this is so real and raw that I couldn't help but feel empathetic for her, even when she's at her worst. It's also really refreshing to have a protagonist like this who isn't white, as they all seem to be.
The side characters were a bit more hit-and-miss for me. Miyu, as you discover more about her, is an amazing character, but every other character from her time period feel average at best. Kenji and Sierra were both fun characters who I think we didn't get to see enough of, but everyone else in Reiko's world felt really fake. Their decisions didn't feel human and it made it impossible to really care when Reiko was only with them. There were also some characters, mostly Reiko's family, who I wish we could have gotten a bit more from.
Most of the characters lacking an amount of depth was more than made up for by the great plot. The plot in the past was easily the more exciting of the two, but the melodramatic nature of the plot in present day made it so it wasn't a chore to return to the present. The plot moved very fast, as it has to for such a short book, but it never felt rushed. This also meant that there were no unnecessary scenes of filler; every scene included in the book was necessary.
I flew through this book - finishing it in a couple hours - and would highly recommend picking it up.
1) Meet Marly ★★★★
content warnings: racism
representation: vietnamese main character, vietnamese side characters, egyptian side character
This was a great follow-up to the first book. It's genuinely incredible the way that Alice Pung can make you sympathise with Marly when she's angry at her parents, even when you know that her parents are actually right. Pung taps into that part of you that remembers being ten and mad at your parents for something dumb and it makes Marly appear perfectly justified in her anger.
I didn't like the plot of this one as much as the first, and I miss Marly's cousins, but I loved the inclusion of Yousra and I really hope we get to see more of her in the next two books.
content warnings: racism
representation: vietnamese main character, vietnamese side characters, egyptian side character
This was a great follow-up to the first book. It's genuinely incredible the way that Alice Pung can make you sympathise with Marly when she's angry at her parents, even when you know that her parents are actually right. Pung taps into that part of you that remembers being ten and mad at your parents for something dumb and it makes Marly appear perfectly justified in her anger.
I didn't like the plot of this one as much as the first, and I miss Marly's cousins, but I loved the inclusion of Yousra and I really hope we get to see more of her in the next two books.
content warnings: transphobia, homophobia, image of a black man being hung
representation: main f/f relationship, wlw main character, wlw japanese side character, black side character, hispanic genderqueer side character
This comic is the epitome of something with great potential that ended up falling flat. The only real compliments I can give it are the general ideas and the art, which was good if incredibly average.
The characters weren't aggressively terrible, just really bland. They had no personality, no character traits, nothing. They were just tools used by the writer to push a story along, which is really bad when the story hinges on the relationship between two characters.
The plot was also just fine, if unnecessarily complicated in places. Issue #4 in particular was full of different flashbacks and timelines and it was hard to keep track of. A few of the twists were good, but the rest was so underwhelming that they didn't have much impact.
This comic suffers from serious pacing issues. There's almost an entire issue dedicated to the relationship between Teddy and Ano which, fine, the comic is about their love, whatever. The only problem is that their relationship happens so fast. Literally, they meet, Teddy instantly falls in love, they have sex almost immediately, and then we get a montage of their domestic life for a year. And then the climax feels so rushed that I feel like there should have been at least two or three more issues.
Quick side-note, while I enjoy sex scenes as much as the next depraved individual, the one in this felt so out of place. It happens randomly, and then there is never another one. The rest are all fade to black, which makes me wonder why we needed a graphic scene in the first place.
Finally, and easily the worst thing about this book, the dialogue. All of it is clunky and unnatural, the characters never speak how real humans would. And it was so long. Majority of the time whenever a character spoke, it would be a lengthy few sentences, which is fine in most media types, except for comics. Comics either need quick dialogue or long dialogue stretched out over multiple panels, otherwise it feels like a chore to get through. There's also a lot of info-dumps throughout the comic which detracted from the flow of it.
This book also got really preachy towards the end, and this is coming from someone who's decided to reclaim SJW. There are multiple pages of famous activists (MLK, Harvey Milk, Susan B Anthony, Malcolm X) giving speeches (again with the long paragraphs) and while it was probably meant to be inspirational it came off more as the writer trying to cram as much activism down the readers throat as possible. This isn't helped by the fact that some of the characters paragraphs of dialogue are just them talking about oppression. To reiterate: an SJW is telling you that this comic is too preachy, that's how bad it is.
This comic had so much potential, but unfortunately I don't even feel like I can recommend it.
representation: main f/f relationship, wlw main character, wlw japanese side character, black side character, hispanic genderqueer side character
This comic is the epitome of something with great potential that ended up falling flat. The only real compliments I can give it are the general ideas and the art, which was good if incredibly average.
The characters weren't aggressively terrible, just really bland. They had no personality, no character traits, nothing. They were just tools used by the writer to push a story along, which is really bad when the story hinges on the relationship between two characters.
The plot was also just fine, if unnecessarily complicated in places. Issue #4 in particular was full of different flashbacks and timelines and it was hard to keep track of. A few of the twists were good, but the rest was so underwhelming that they didn't have much impact.
This comic suffers from serious pacing issues. There's almost an entire issue dedicated to the relationship between Teddy and Ano which, fine, the comic is about their love, whatever. The only problem is that their relationship happens so fast. Literally, they meet, Teddy instantly falls in love, they have sex almost immediately, and then we get a montage of their domestic life for a year. And then the climax feels so rushed that I feel like there should have been at least two or three more issues.
Quick side-note, while I enjoy sex scenes as much as the next depraved individual, the one in this felt so out of place. It happens randomly, and then there is never another one. The rest are all fade to black, which makes me wonder why we needed a graphic scene in the first place.
Finally, and easily the worst thing about this book, the dialogue. All of it is clunky and unnatural, the characters never speak how real humans would. And it was so long. Majority of the time whenever a character spoke, it would be a lengthy few sentences, which is fine in most media types, except for comics. Comics either need quick dialogue or long dialogue stretched out over multiple panels, otherwise it feels like a chore to get through. There's also a lot of info-dumps throughout the comic which detracted from the flow of it.
This book also got really preachy towards the end, and this is coming from someone who's decided to reclaim SJW. There are multiple pages of famous activists (MLK, Harvey Milk, Susan B Anthony, Malcolm X) giving speeches (again with the long paragraphs) and while it was probably meant to be inspirational it came off more as the writer trying to cram as much activism down the readers throat as possible. This isn't helped by the fact that some of the characters paragraphs of dialogue are just them talking about oppression. To reiterate: an SJW is telling you that this comic is too preachy, that's how bad it is.
This comic had so much potential, but unfortunately I don't even feel like I can recommend it.
1) Cable & Deadpool, Vol. 1: If Looks Could Kill ★★★
content warnings: violence, gore, death, use of the r-slur, jokes about eating disorders and sexual assault
representation: pansexual main character
Despite giving them the same rating, I did enjoy this second volume more than the first, largely due to the plot. This plot was much tighter and more compelling, probably because it's almost entirely character-driven, which are my favourite kinds of plots. This is also one of the most well-known Cable & Deadpool plots, with Nathan's Jesus complex and Providence, and for good reason; it's a really damn good storyline.
The characters are still great, but show up kind of inconsistently considering the fact that this is a team-up. Most of the time this felt like a Deadpool comic, with Cable as a major character. Also, this volume is so much gayer than the first and that will always be a plus for me.
This is a really personal thing and I completely understand other people not being bothered by this, but the unnecessary offensive jokes really started to get on my nerves, particularly the rapey jokes towards Domino at the end.
All in all, I'm still hyped to read volume three.
content warnings: violence, gore, death, use of the r-slur, jokes about eating disorders and sexual assault
representation: pansexual main character
Despite giving them the same rating, I did enjoy this second volume more than the first, largely due to the plot. This plot was much tighter and more compelling, probably because it's almost entirely character-driven, which are my favourite kinds of plots. This is also one of the most well-known Cable & Deadpool plots, with Nathan's Jesus complex and Providence, and for good reason; it's a really damn good storyline.
The characters are still great, but show up kind of inconsistently considering the fact that this is a team-up. Most of the time this felt like a Deadpool comic, with Cable as a major character. Also, this volume is so much gayer than the first and that will always be a plus for me.
This is a really personal thing and I completely understand other people not being bothered by this, but the unnecessary offensive jokes really started to get on my nerves, particularly the rapey jokes towards Domino at the end.
All in all, I'm still hyped to read volume three.