American Virgin, Volume 3: Wet

American Virgin #3

by Steven T. Seagle, Becky Cloonan (Artist)

Adam Chamberlain is a 20-year old youth minister, a best-selling author and, most importantly, the head of a rabid national virginity movement. Just a few weeks shy of marrying the girl of his dreams - she is killed while working for the Peace Corps in Africa. He is now forced to look for answers about his lost love and what he finds sets him on a crash course with his own moral limits. In this second volume, Adam heads to Australia searching for his girlfriend's killer and finds himself out of his element, adrift in a sea of seething sexuality.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2007

About the author

Steven T. Seagle is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game, and animation industries.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Steven T Seagle's pretty dark and actually very humorous dark comedy about a young evangelical superstar Adam's fight to stay on the spiritual and holy path after some awful personal experiences. Somehow Steven T Seagle manages to blend terrorism, religion, love and a world tour into a pretty good book! 7 out of 12 funny Three Star read. Collects #10-14.

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[Brad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adam Chamberlain, a Christian virginity advocate, continues his R-rated romp though his messed-up family's past and his sex-after-marriage future!
The first issue in Wet is a well-integrated flashback that explains Adam's family relationship, especially with his less savory/saviory step-siblings. After that, Adam's on a quest to find his real soul mate, since the last one he found didn't take (she was murdered, but he keeps seeing her in visions).
American Virgin has a lot more to say about American Christianity than American sexuality, and it also treats the former more compassionately. In this issue, like all the past ones, Adam gets into a freaky, exploitative sexual scenario, but somehow ends up redeeming himself.
The ongoing plot of American Virgin is really murky--it's hard to figure out what Adam's overall goal is. So far, he's avenged his dead fiancee's death and now may have a new one in training, but where's he going from there?
Becky Cloonan's art is fine, though not nearly as emotional as in DEMO. On the otherhand, Joshua Middleton's covers are great.

[Vikas · Rating 4 out of 5]

So Saga of Adam Chamberlain continues .. this time we get to see a flashback to his childhood and lot more .. Since avenging Cassie .. Adam is now looking for another Miss Right for him. As per the name of the story arc .. every part of this 5 part arc has something to do with water.

Do read it.

I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics as I can. I Love comics to bit, may comics never leave my side. I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.

[47Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, so Mamie was hot in her youth. She quickly turns into a right b!tch after her husband leaves her. Adam was terrorised as a child by his fanatically religious mother and his step-brothers, then found God and everything became right in his little world.

Going through his memories right before getting out of the crashed plane makes him doubt the link he had with Cassie. They met at a beauty pageant, but there were several other girls there. God's message to him said he would fall for a girl he met recently, so it could have been one of the other contestants. Now Adam has his step-brothers track down the other four pageant finalists.

Mel is really a woman. Such a staggeringly useless revelation! I hope I didn't ruin the unbelievably boring revelation for everyone.

Adam feels like Vanessa is the girl he has been looking for. She was a contestant in the beauty pageant, but used a different name. He joins her for a round the world trip.

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entering the second half of its run, Steven Seagle's "American Virgin" pivots away from the action movie subplot towards a more philosophical but fluffier mix of sex comedy and religious exploration. It works pretty well most of the time; this is a comic that tries to be everything but here figures out exactly what it's meant to be.

[Gustavo Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

é coisa de doido, como south park e derivados

[Saint No Stopping Us · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adam sees a message from God convincing him that maybe Cassie wasn't his one and only after all. Can he track down his real true love?

[Krishnakumar Mohanasundaram · Rating 2 out of 5]

The same drama continues with more sex and more nudes...
Becomes repetitive

[Lara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I kinda got bored with this series I guess. I found the first volume fairly interesting and figured I'd read the next volume or two, since a lot of times it takes a series a couple of books to really get good. But it hasn't really happened here. It's definitely not bad either, just...it doesn't really seem to be going anywhere at this point, and I have other things to read. You know...

[Matti]

This was a really bad comic. The writing was average at best, there was nothing intriguing about any of the characters. The protagonist was utterly unlikable and had no depth to his character. Boring and bad.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another interesting volume with good characters and good plot.

[Robert Hudder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Premarital sex, pool parties, downfall of politics when sex is involved, beauty pageants, sex parties, and transitioning individuals.

[Kim Annabella · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute, I've read as far as issue 23. Why on earth did it get the chop can anyone tell me?

[Sam McCanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

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