I really enjoyed this exploration of navigating personal growth and toxic friendships through the lens of a bachelor party weekend and an apocalyptic cult. An excellent LGBT graphic novel with very fun, stylized art. #comicscount
I really enjoyed this exploration of navigating personal growth and toxic friendships through the lens of a bachelor party weekend and an apocalyptic cult. An excellent LGBT graphic novel with very fun, stylized art. #comicscount
Look what I picked up from the library! Via ILL ❤️
I have gotten away from posting my readings 😢 Let‘s get back to it.
Updated later: found it confusing, but I am glad to have read it. It was a MUCH quicker read than I expected!!!!
Newly transitioned, non-binary Sammie goes on a debauched bachelor‘s weekend for their best friend from before they transitioned. They contend with micro- and macro aggressions as they try to figure out if these relationships are worth saving - literally saving, as it turns out, since the weekend happens at the site of an apocalyptic cults‘ bid to awaken their eldritch god. So… lots going on. The part with the clones felt most thought-out. ⬇️
In this fun graphic novel set in the future, a non-binary person on a bachelor weekend must contend with a group of former friends who can‘t get their pronouns right, and also a mysterious murder cult.
This was a wild, strange read. It took me a while to sink into what was happening. I think the terror-filled, apocalyptic, other-worldly weekend away resonated with me in the end as an excellent metaphor for what it can feel like when queer people of many stripes are in extended situations when they have to pretend to be something they aren‘t and accept all manner of uncomfortable and inappropriate situations to survive. Was this over the top? ⬇️
17/150 Sammie, a newly out transgender woman, is invited by her best friend to join him and their college buddies at El Campo, a swanky floating resort, for his bachelor party. The guys are pretty much jerks, refusing to see Sammie as a she now, inforcing male stereotypes on her. This is an odd mix of gender drama, social satire (all the men talk in business buzzwords and marketing lingo), paranoia and Elder Gods horror. I thought parts ⬇️
I‘m looking forward to reading more about this one in the Tournament of Books. I had a hard time with it, as I was so upset by Sammie‘s college “friends.” I think that‘s part of the point. Plus, capitalism is painful, too. The ending was a relief. Go, Sammie!
Came to return books and saw this on a display. I loved this. Sammie, a trans woman, is best man at her college friend‘s bachelor weekend at an anything goes, in the future, in the middle of the ocean resort. While grappling with the fact that her buddies haven‘t caught up to who she is now, Sammie starts to notice that not all is right at the resort. There are a lot of details to love in here. The itinerary, the capitalism in here was👇🏼
I don‘t read many graphic novels but I was pleased to see one make the cut for #tob24. I am glad my library had it so I could give it a try although it ended up not being for me. I appreciated the parts about Sami spending time with friends from before they came out as trans. I don‘t really enjoy the supernatural horror parts.
Another read from before Christmas!
This is definitely one of the better titles on the real #tob24 shortlist! I am here for trans joy and acceptance. 🫶🏻🏳️⚧️ Lubchansky takes a look at a recently out transfeminine person who heads to a debauched island for a bachelor party with cis male college friends. They use humor and horror to great effect to tell a story of self-acceptance. Love seeing a graphic novel chosen by the tob, too!
Campy, over the top and not subtle. It‘s fine but unmemorable, definite borrow not buy- glad my library had it.
#tob24
Not my usual fare, as I‘m not a GN reader, but the description of this grabbed me immediately from the #tob24 longlist, and I really enjoyed it! I liked that there was a focus on trying to be accepted by an old crowd as a trans person amongst the silliness of some strange goings on all around. It would be fun to see this in the tournament.
This graphic novel is... Not what I was expecting.