Duck! Second Chances

by Tana Ford

Duck! Second Chances is about lesbians living and loving in Boston, it is about community and friendship, loyalty and dancing and house parties. It is about soulmates and friends with benefits. It is about how love keeps you moving forward and how nothing is impossible when you have your best friend by your side.

Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Graphic Novel!

74 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2013

Reviews

[Tiamatty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This second Duck comic is as good as the first comic, and very different. The first one was a road trip story about two friends. This one is more about just a group of friends dealing with their love lives. It touches a lot on lesbian overlap - the idea that, in any community of lesbians, all of them have had sex with either each other or each other's friends. There's a lot of clever, believable dialogue, and plenty of good drama. I do feel like the dialogue is occasionally tough to follow - speech bubbles in awkward places, and occasional dialogue that doesn't seem to be related to anything. It does feel a little like stepping into the middles of conversations, so it works in that sense, but I still think it could've used slightly tighter editing of the dialogue.

The art matches the story, a blend of realism and cartoonishness. It's expressive, and reads well.

I really enjoyed this comic. It's a very good series.