Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal

Wuvable Oaf (collected editions) #2

by Ed Luce

Oaf, a wuvable Bay Area bear, searches for love in the local metal and wrestling scenes in Blood and Metal, which collects a number of short stories. Featuring tales of Oaf ’s formative childhood years, and much more!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Fantasy, Gay

100 pages, Hardcover

First published December 6, 2016

Reviews

[Yani · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't love this edition as much as the first one, mostly because it concentrates on Oaf's wrestling persona (and the fact that it's much, much, much shorter), and it's a collection of short one-shots or short run pieces rather than the ongoing narrative.

However, the fact that this is in full colour is fun.

[Mery ✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2/5

A bit disappointing to be honest. There wasn't much to read in this book, really. Apart from the first few pages, the rest is a collection of illustrations rather than comic books, like extras for some kind of deluxe edition.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Less of a narrative, but I prefer it to the first one. Still super duper cute!

[George Ilsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Less cats here and more satirical insights into the manufactured drama of professional wrestling. This volume is comprised of many short little episodes from the life of the Wuvable Oaf.
Much wuvable weirdness.
Choppy and episodic, but crammed with true weirdness.

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume might be likened to an origin-story as told through a family "photo album" of sorts. Luce delivers one-page scene sequences, two-page vignettes, posters, early drawings, dating site exchanges, flashbacks, and other assorted windows into the wonder that is Wuvable Oaf, as well as the zany cast of supporting characters. Wuvable Oaf is the hirsute bear you didn't know you needed to love.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Souvent les intégrales avec plusieurs artistes sont inégales en terme de qualité. Je suis content de retrouver les héros de cette superbe série mais dommage du manque de continuité et du principe général de l'oeuvre. Une lecture sympa tout de même

[Kristin · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5
One page strips, cover art, and sketches. This book is the equivalent of a special features DVD for Volume one. Really disappointing considering how sweet, outrageous, and fun the original was.

[Larry C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as lengthy as the first book, but hey, more Oaf is more Oaf! So that makes me happy!

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not the follow-up I wanted to Wuvable Oaf, but it's still fun and gross and irreverent even if there's none of the romance that made the first volume so amazing.

[Dominel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story wise, there’s not much there. It’s a bunch of shorts. HOWEVER, if you’re looking for gay nods and Easter eggs, this is a treasure trove. The author is obviously very into queer culture (pages are devoted to Bob Mould, Hunx and His Punx; there are jokes about Michelle Shocked betraying her gay fanbase and T-Shirts devoted to a death metal Ron Swanson.) If you’re into bears, there’s lots of eye candy in the comic book style. Lots of gratuitous sex jokes. The art is respectable. Not a great read but a lot of fun references to the culture.

[Chris Browning · Rating 4 out of 5]

In many ways I am absolutely not the market for this: I’m very not gay, not at all into kinks, actively dislike wrestling and can only cope with metal in a sort of theoretical way. But I do like cats a lot and I can also appreciate a great cartoonist even when the content is a million miles away from my own experiences (and, to be honest, another million miles away from any experiences I’m ever to have). Warm, funny, daft and very enjoyable

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ed Luce's drawings of Morrissey remind me why I am alive. Even if Morrissey himself is proving to be a real tool. Actually, any of Luce's fan art is delightful. I wasn't super into the first volume of Wuvable Oaf I read, but this one might have converted me into a full-fledged fan. Plus, paper dolls!!

[spoon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Happy this exists. I think my hold up here was that I wanted it to be more narrative? Like I wanted long form narrative. But it's not that type of comic so a me thing. I thought "Love / Lust / Lost" was really good and want to see like more narratively experimental stuff like that. Maybe it's in the other books? I will check them out.

[S · Rating 3 out of 5]

This doesn’t have a narrative story, so it isn’t really a continuation of the first. However, the characters and clips are still fun. Always hilarious to read Oaf’s attempts at dating (still priceless). No San Furrancisco sequel, but still plenty enough weird to be entertaining. 2.8*

[Teacup · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm still so excited about the variety of gender and self-expression in these books!

[David Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly one page comics about bears (the gay kind, not the animal kind), wrasslin' and metal. Amusing enough.

[Sara G · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art is great (and I love the colour)! I did wish that there were a continuation of the overarching plot of the first volume, though, I wanted to see more dates...

[Cheyenne Antell · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of short stories and images not included in the first published book for the series. Seemed very haphazard, and didn't add anything of substance to the story that book #1 had set up.

[r0zberry · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars, rounded up because cats.

Like the author, I also really miss Prince <3

[Brian Kovesci · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need more.
i NEED more.
i need MORE.

[MariNaomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious + excellent art

[flesher goreman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wuvable Oaf is absolutely perfect.

[Enotsluap · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't have a tear welling up in my eye when I read this edition. At first, I was disappointed. I did get into it. I think the coloring is amazing. I want to hang it on my wall. And in the end the characters are as charming as before. I loved it.

[Alex Sarll]

Slighter than the first volume, and a little heavier on wrasslin', but otherwise a fairly similar mix of the gross and the sweet. The ads for body hair products in the back are probably fake now, but give it a couple of years...

[The Bibliopossum · Rating 4 out of 5]

To read my thoughts on the previous Wuvable Oaf volume, click here.
I read this volume of Wuvable Oaf at work again--
this time with full on erections in the panels.

Did I not learn the last time?


What worked last time still works, and the heavy metal imagery is super baller. The difference between this volume and the last was that this one focuses just on short stories, and I do prefer that type of uniformity in my comics.

What really startled me was the full-color of Oaf. Wasn't aware he has pink eyeballs and teeth.