Delayed Replays

by Liz Prince

With this second collection of comic strips after the critically-acclaimed Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?, Liz Prince continues to explore the intimacy of the couple, while at the same time revealing snippets of her life as a young cartoonist. Sentimental and humorous, these little gems of chaotic relationships and life come off like the best of daily newspaper strips.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Bande Dessinée

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2007

About the author

I have been a comic artist and a self-publisher since I was in high school in the mid-90's. In 2005 my book Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? was published by Top Shelf Productions; it won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut. Top Shelf has since published two more of my autobio comic collections, Delayed Replays in 2008, and Alone Forever earlier this year. In September my first full length graphic novel, a memoir about adolescence and gender stereotypes called Tomboy, comes out from Zest Books.

I have had comics published in numerous anthologies, drawn stories for the wildly popular Adventure Time series, and I am a columnist for the punk magazine Razorcake.

Currently my cat Dracula is sitting on my lap, and his sister Wolfman is giving him the side-eye.

Reviews

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-read 2020: I decided that after Tomboy I wanted to re-read some more of Liz Prince works, thankfully I got a whole collection. This one was next. I was in for something short because lately I have been dead-tired. I had tons of fun reading this one and I giggled at many parts. I loved seeing the various boys in her life (though I have to say sometimes I wondered what happened to boy a as she was flirting with boy b) and also see her daily life. All in all, I had fun reading this one.


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First up, yay! For the Domo-kun pillow on the cover!

Second: Yes, I am really in a Liz Prince mood. This will be the second review regarding her books, and I still got another 2 waiting for a review. This won't be a long review, just a short one to tell everyone what I thought.

This book is all about Liz and her daily life. From boyfriends to friendship, from sadness to silliness. Sometimes the stories were a bit weird, and sometimes I was confused as to how she could have a boyfriend yet kiss with someone else.

But I had fun and I had quite a few laughs and snickers at the silly things happening, at the funny jokes being said.

However the art was a disappointment. Maybe I shouldn't have started with Tomboy and The Singles Collection, as this one had pretty bad art. There were still a lot of helplines (no clue what the official term is, it has been a long time since I have done any art) and the characters just look weird at times. However, you can see a steady progress to something better in her art. This one goes from 2000-something to 2007/2008 and you can clearly see that it gets a little bit better with each comic.

Still I would really recommend this book, it is short, but you will laugh and snicker at some of the situations.

Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/

[Imogen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy crap! Finally an answer to the question, 'What if Jeffrey Brown were awesome?' It doesn't hurt that she just makes jokes that I make all the time in my life- "if you keep being bad, I'm going to send you to cat jail forever," for example- and that nothing happens in lots of the strips except people being adorable. Basically, I get the impression that Liz Prince is me, but living on the east coast instead of missing the east coast, boning boys instead of girls, and with different hair. Also she draws comics instead of being in a famous, popular band.

Fuck yes! Here is a blurb for Liz Prince's next book: LIZ PRINCE IS SAVING GODDAM COMICS.

[Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun little collection of autobiographical webcomic vignettes that I found very humorous and quite relatable. Prince is great at highlighting the absurdity in day to day life, including cats, libraries, geekery, injuries, dating, ice-cream treats, among other daily wonders. I think I read somewhere that Prince's art has been compared to a cross between Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, and that's accurate, but I think her sense of humor applies more closely to my own life, and I can't help but picture episodes from my own life illustrated so cutely. I will definitely continue to follow her work.

[Romane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Liz Prince is awesome. I found myself laughing out loud while reading this because some of the things are very relatable, especially the silly ones. The artwork is simple and great. A marvelous collection of autobiographical comic strips.

[Thalita · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and short ..

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a fan.

[Gef · Rating 2 out of 5]

sorry, not my cup of tea

[Roxana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and a half stars

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Very short series of comics.

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 1 out of 5]

The sketches were much too rough and amateurish. And, again, I could not read the handwritten and sloppy text. Just bad.

[Danielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like Prince's work generally, but this is clearly her earlier work as it mostly seems to be in-jokes and gross humor. It just wasn't for me.

[Renee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had never heard of Liz Prince and picked up this book because it was free on Comixology Unlimited. I found myself laughing out load a few times at her slice of life comics. I'll definitely look for more by this author.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short slice-of-life tidbits from a young cartoonist.

[Matt Graupman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Branching out from the relationship comics of her first book, "Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?," Liz Prince once again captures the tiny moments in life that usually get lost but deserve to be remembered. Haircuts, playing with cats, stealing kisses, and going to the library are all fodder for her lovely strips. Her artwork is a little bit more polished this time around without losing its minimalist charms and her writing is a little more direct and gag-y (in the one-liner sense, not the dry heave kind of way). Though it may not be as thematically focused as her previous book, "Delayed Replays" is still vintage Liz.

[Marissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Similar one-off, humorous comic strips to her earlier book, "Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed?" I really like her dorky sense of humor. Sadly, it seems like the adorable relationship she focused on in her first book ends in the middle of the second book, although it's never made explicit exactly, which makes it kind of bittersweet. It made me wish she had maybe done a comic strip about the break up, just to know what happened. I really understand why she wouldn't have wanted to write a strip about that, however. Regardless, still a really cute read.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liz Prince is an author/artist/tomboy extraordinaire to watch. I found her through her (at one time) online comic, Alone Forever, which I greatly loved. This collection of everyday interactions is no less fun. I plan on reading all Prince has to offer, including her forthcoming Tomboy.

[Maggie Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Delayed Replays is a small book of scribbly comics by Liz Prince about random, funny moments in her life. I was concerned that I would think the book was boring or poorly done when I flipped through it and saw the images. But, despite not being as polished as her other work, it's still a fun read that made me laugh. Go tiny scribbly comics! You be unexpectedly enjoyable like that :D

[Marissa Elera · Rating 3 out of 5]

Several of these made me laugh, most were just mildly amusing. This is the first work by Prince I've read, though, so I will try her first one, as it sounds like the parts I liked best, the relationship matters, are the focus of the first one.

[Cindy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not Liz Prince's best work but okay. It was really similar to Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?. I think I've gotten tired of her shorts. I look forward to another longer, better edited work.

[Veronica Feliciano · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's ok....

Not my fav...I think the author should elaborate more, because right now its too short and meaningless. Some were really good and were funny, but others didn't make any sense.

[Hillary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review is here: http://shazhmmm.blogspot.com/2008/07/...

[Gary Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun, funny, witty, nerdy, blah, blah, blah.

It's a bit more 'cute' than 'substantial', but I don't think I mean that in a negative way.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read right through this. I liked her other book, "Will you still love me if I wet the bed?" better, because it seemed more coherent.

[Higgs · Rating 5 out of 5]

If I were going to Single White Female any person, it would be Liz Prince. I stalked Xanadu for weeks to get this book, and it was totally. fucking. worth it.

[nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

saw it at comic con and said to myself, oh i've totally wanted to read that. which was not true, because when i realized i wasn't that crazy about her.

[Jasmine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did not like this as much as her other book. I'm pretty sure that connor told me this is the wrong way to word that. However, it is still a good book and I still love liz prince.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Liz Prince!

[Ero · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cutesy.

[becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

got it at the Small Press Expo (SPX) with Neil