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The Short While
After a party, two men accidentally swap their jackets and are thrust into a most opportune meeting in this tragic but redemptive love story about two men who meet, quickly fall in love, and are separated by an act of violence and trauma.
LOVE. LOSS. REDEMPTION.
After a party, two men accidentally swap their jackets and are thrust into a most opportune meeting. In each other they find what they’ve been missing. Love. Companionship. Trust. Honesty. Vulnerability. And they find everything they feared. Tragedy. Loss. Loss of self. Loss of freedom. Loss of each other.
Acclaimed cartoonist Jeremy Sorese (Curveball) presents a tragic but redemptive love story about two men who meet, quickly fall in love, and then find themselves falling apart when an unexpected event changes both their lives forever
"An epic that’s part science fiction, part allegory, and part offbeat queer love story." -
LOVE. LOSS. REDEMPTION.
After a party, two men accidentally swap their jackets and are thrust into a most opportune meeting. In each other they find what they’ve been missing. Love. Companionship. Trust. Honesty. Vulnerability. And they find everything they feared. Tragedy. Loss. Loss of self. Loss of freedom. Loss of each other.
Acclaimed cartoonist Jeremy Sorese (Curveball) presents a tragic but redemptive love story about two men who meet, quickly fall in love, and then find themselves falling apart when an unexpected event changes both their lives forever
"An epic that’s part science fiction, part allegory, and part offbeat queer love story." -
432 pages, Hardcover
First published November 10, 2021
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May 31, 2022
If you’re thinking about checking out this book, I highly recommend getting familiar with author Jeremy Sorese’s illustration/prose work, but most especially reading his first novel Curveball before reading The Short While. The Short While is not an exact sequel but rather a standalone novel within the universe of Curveball and features some of CB’s characters in the wings as well as some of the world’s lore and how it has changed and grown since we last visited this literary universe. Whereas CB is a traditional graphic novel with juicy and expressive black/white line work, TSW fluctuates between written prose and comic panels in the same Sorese line work style as seen in CB, sometimes flowing smoothly between the two formats and other times transitioning more abruptly as events progress in the plot or new findings appear across the perspectives of the two TSW protagonists.
As someone who devoured Curveball in the first reading and was very much looking forward to this new addition in Sorese’s literary work, it’s all I could have wanted: dramatic extreme lighting and amazing textures in the comic panels, beautiful gestures and expressions in the characters, delightful and heart-aching prose explaining complex emotions or trains of thought, and metamorphosis all set against a sci-fi dystopian society struggling with urbanization after a great calamity. Much of the setup and plot reminded me of the story structure and foundation in Curveball, but there is a maturity and a fierceness in vulnerability in Sorese’s writing in The Short While that left me with reflecting on my own emotional baggage and individual self without a partner, and such vulnerability was something CB just lightly starting to hint at throughout its own plot.
And as someone reading the reviews where folks where more confused and baffled about the experimental format than anything else: for new readers, I highly encourage getting familiar with the author’s previous work before diving in. I promise you’ll love it! Or your time, reading this simple review, back (not that I can do that but I hope this helped).
As someone who devoured Curveball in the first reading and was very much looking forward to this new addition in Sorese’s literary work, it’s all I could have wanted: dramatic extreme lighting and amazing textures in the comic panels, beautiful gestures and expressions in the characters, delightful and heart-aching prose explaining complex emotions or trains of thought, and metamorphosis all set against a sci-fi dystopian society struggling with urbanization after a great calamity. Much of the setup and plot reminded me of the story structure and foundation in Curveball, but there is a maturity and a fierceness in vulnerability in Sorese’s writing in The Short While that left me with reflecting on my own emotional baggage and individual self without a partner, and such vulnerability was something CB just lightly starting to hint at throughout its own plot.
And as someone reading the reviews where folks where more confused and baffled about the experimental format than anything else: for new readers, I highly encourage getting familiar with the author’s previous work before diving in. I promise you’ll love it! Or your time, reading this simple review, back (not that I can do that but I hope this helped).
June 30, 2025
Omg wow!!!!!
December 16, 2022
Gosh, I would give this book 6 stars if I could. Beautiful, beautiful experimental, queer, speculative graphic fiction that explores trauma, tech, love, gender and sexuality in just the most gorgeous, aching of ways.
June 3, 2022
DNF. This was almost a hybrid of prose and graphic novel. The graphic novel style was a bit too dark in a lot of places to understand what was going on, it also had too much writing on each page and felt info dumpy.
December 31, 2022
"It's remarkable to recognize that, even separated by our individual screens... There are still communities. Despite the messiness of the original Internet, we found ways to be something together. I suppose that's just human nature. Whether it's in an abstract digital space or on a physical farm, it's in our nature to rely on others to tell us who we are."
November 21, 2021
Completely frustrating book, that belies its graphic novel form by infodumping a whole lot of stuff on us – about some weird hippie cult thing called The Dance, and how this future world has large free-standing gyroscope-shaped screens that showed the bad government killing people, and now show allegedly good governments killing the bad government, in daily executions – only to chunter on to no great effect about a member of a gay couple house-sitting while a new smart security system is installed. When something happens it will break out into a different form entirely, one much more prose-heavy than the standard graphic novel reader will likely appreciate or expect, but the fact that is a third of the way in will only kill off interest, as you realise the previous hundred-plus pages could have been done in ten.
Added to that is the presentation, and I don't just mean the way the text layers in my preview copy were pin-sharp while the hand-lettering was almost impossible to read at times, so blurry and low-res was the visual layer. I don't just mean the way hardly anyone is shown with their eyes open – so many conversations are of people with squinting eyes, or tiny pin-pricks of them. No, I mean the sheer dinginess and gloom on so many panels, often repeating themselves to show passage of time or subtle differences between frames, and the sheer unwillingness of the artist to allow us to see what the heck is what. Hide the awful robot things, by all means – they're pants – but don't hide the actual drama from us.
What I could get out of this is a right hodge-podge of the future world and the timelessness of gay love, of the large scale and the small and intimate, and – well, a couple of other similar extremes that just never met in any common ground marked 'entertaining'. Persistence might have brought some joy – it does have some good reviews, I see – but the fact it was so poorly produced means the book, for me, and as I saw it, is a one-starrer. Taking so long to get nowhere, and looking so ugly with it, means this is on the 'need not exist' shelf.
TLDR? – TLDR.
Added to that is the presentation, and I don't just mean the way the text layers in my preview copy were pin-sharp while the hand-lettering was almost impossible to read at times, so blurry and low-res was the visual layer. I don't just mean the way hardly anyone is shown with their eyes open – so many conversations are of people with squinting eyes, or tiny pin-pricks of them. No, I mean the sheer dinginess and gloom on so many panels, often repeating themselves to show passage of time or subtle differences between frames, and the sheer unwillingness of the artist to allow us to see what the heck is what. Hide the awful robot things, by all means – they're pants – but don't hide the actual drama from us.
What I could get out of this is a right hodge-podge of the future world and the timelessness of gay love, of the large scale and the small and intimate, and – well, a couple of other similar extremes that just never met in any common ground marked 'entertaining'. Persistence might have brought some joy – it does have some good reviews, I see – but the fact it was so poorly produced means the book, for me, and as I saw it, is a one-starrer. Taking so long to get nowhere, and looking so ugly with it, means this is on the 'need not exist' shelf.
TLDR? – TLDR.
March 18, 2025
wow an absolutely fabulous feast for the eyes, brain, and heart. after following Jeremy on instagram for a few years I knew when I saw the cover at the library I had to take it home and read it. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing his illustrations in a graphic novel context, his use of textures is masterful. I really enjoyed the pace of getting back stories from the characters as well. they were well written and felt very real and whole
I'd absolutely recommend this
I'd absolutely recommend this
January 10, 2023
Some advice for anyone looking to read this book:
If you go into this book wanting a plot that is going to tug you along with familiar polished cartooning I don’t think you’re going to have a good time. My experience of the book dramatically improved when I stopped trying to finish it quickly, and instead spent time with it.
This book feels like a collection of five years of dreams and details. I’m a big lover of Sorese’s work in illustration. Sometimes I’ll look at one of his paintings and be moved by the love he clearly has for other men, their bodies and souls, and the lives they live. In this book that kind of detailed, slow love is applied to science fiction ideas and the relationship histories of various characters. And so you get a lot of stories within the story that don’t move the plot along. That said, If you’re willing to slow down and meet the book where it’s at, I think this is a deeply tender, sometimes very evocative book. And I think it’s worth your money and time.
Okay now for anyone who has read the book:
I think the people hating on the mix of prose and comics in this are cowards! I also think that its just wordy comics, not a mix of two mediums. Comics are words and pictures and this just has a lot of words in it. The tradition of prosey comics goes back to Eisner! Like, Hugo Pratt and Ta Nehesi Coates have characters speak in paragraphs and nobody says they’re not making comics! Sorese is just putting all those words outside the bubbles.
That said, I wonder if the book would have worked better with bigger, hand lettered text, like in Contract With God or Sorese’s own The Tar Pit. The standard serif type clashes with the tender quality of both the content and the images, and results in the aforementioned critiques that the book feels like a mix of prose and comics. Ultimately it’s a design issue not a core storytelling issue IMHO.
I also think the wandering nature of the plot weakens it. With something this dense/wordy a plot with a little bit more propulsion would be helpful. Even just giving the two men goals that they were trying to accomplish (beyond stay housed, and help out with things where they were housed) would have been helpful. A clothesline for the reader to hang all these disparate stories onto.
I am grateful for this book and the things it tries and the dreams it dreams. I think there is enough poetry to it and interesting things in it that it was worth my time, but I don’t know if it’s fully fully successful as a piece. I hope Sorese comes back and gives us another huge graphic novel in five years. I can’t wait to see what he tries then.
If you go into this book wanting a plot that is going to tug you along with familiar polished cartooning I don’t think you’re going to have a good time. My experience of the book dramatically improved when I stopped trying to finish it quickly, and instead spent time with it.
This book feels like a collection of five years of dreams and details. I’m a big lover of Sorese’s work in illustration. Sometimes I’ll look at one of his paintings and be moved by the love he clearly has for other men, their bodies and souls, and the lives they live. In this book that kind of detailed, slow love is applied to science fiction ideas and the relationship histories of various characters. And so you get a lot of stories within the story that don’t move the plot along. That said, If you’re willing to slow down and meet the book where it’s at, I think this is a deeply tender, sometimes very evocative book. And I think it’s worth your money and time.
Okay now for anyone who has read the book:
I think the people hating on the mix of prose and comics in this are cowards! I also think that its just wordy comics, not a mix of two mediums. Comics are words and pictures and this just has a lot of words in it. The tradition of prosey comics goes back to Eisner! Like, Hugo Pratt and Ta Nehesi Coates have characters speak in paragraphs and nobody says they’re not making comics! Sorese is just putting all those words outside the bubbles.
That said, I wonder if the book would have worked better with bigger, hand lettered text, like in Contract With God or Sorese’s own The Tar Pit. The standard serif type clashes with the tender quality of both the content and the images, and results in the aforementioned critiques that the book feels like a mix of prose and comics. Ultimately it’s a design issue not a core storytelling issue IMHO.
I also think the wandering nature of the plot weakens it. With something this dense/wordy a plot with a little bit more propulsion would be helpful. Even just giving the two men goals that they were trying to accomplish (beyond stay housed, and help out with things where they were housed) would have been helpful. A clothesline for the reader to hang all these disparate stories onto.
I am grateful for this book and the things it tries and the dreams it dreams. I think there is enough poetry to it and interesting things in it that it was worth my time, but I don’t know if it’s fully fully successful as a piece. I hope Sorese comes back and gives us another huge graphic novel in five years. I can’t wait to see what he tries then.
June 3, 2022
Jeremy Sorese's The Short While is at turns sweetly tender and senselessly tragic. In a dystopian near-future, two gay men's lives become entangled and then torn apart by a random act of violence that leaves them each questioning their sense of self and their place in the world. It's a sensitive work that feels deeply personal and lived-in; Sorese was himself the victim of a senseless act of violence prior to writing this novel and it clearly informs the work, as does his obvious love of queer community and found family. Sorese also seems to revel in his worldbuilding, methodically laying out background information as he builds a world that seems to parallel the characters as he guides us through a broken, traumatized husk of a nation that seems to also be drifting from one crisis to the next.
The novel has a unique form, with setting, backstories, and internal monologues mainly told through prose with spot illustrations. Meanwhile, action and conversations are mainly depicted in traditional graphic novel format. It's an interesting way of telling a story and Sorese uses it well. It takes a minute to get used to, but I found that it was an effective technique that both imbued the graphic novel segments with extra weight and meaning and created a certain internal rhythm to the book. The story feels a little fragmented and vague at times but it ultimately feels fitting; the subject matter of The Short While is not one with a set roadmap.
The novel has a unique form, with setting, backstories, and internal monologues mainly told through prose with spot illustrations. Meanwhile, action and conversations are mainly depicted in traditional graphic novel format. It's an interesting way of telling a story and Sorese uses it well. It takes a minute to get used to, but I found that it was an effective technique that both imbued the graphic novel segments with extra weight and meaning and created a certain internal rhythm to the book. The story feels a little fragmented and vague at times but it ultimately feels fitting; the subject matter of The Short While is not one with a set roadmap.
December 22, 2024
Really great & well thought out world, characters & themes as well as story, amazing commentary of our government, of technology & the going ons of life as well as a emphasis on Community and Connection, you can tell this book is really personal to author & that they put a lot into it.
like most Horror / Si-Fi it definitely reflects a lot of what’s going on current day, & back then in 2021 when it was written, you can tell the author was really pulling from & looking back at what was occurring during the past years leading to 2021, as well as the past as a whole. So now in 2024, the commentary stands even taller with the upcoming years we are going to experience.
I definitely think this would be a great beginner graphic novel for adult readers as well because a lot of this novel is told though text as much as it is told though panels, and amazing LGBT+ / Queer representation though out the book really made me enjoy the graphic novel even more of course. It’s a really good book it even has a really nice section of the book that is an ode to / a love letter to the imperfect internet & a message of making sure we that we preserve & archive it. Lots of questioning of government & technology the way we use it & the way the government uses it, and commentary of the surveillance state that we live in & are all currently under. Definitely a Book that is at the top of my list of books I read in 2024.
like most Horror / Si-Fi it definitely reflects a lot of what’s going on current day, & back then in 2021 when it was written, you can tell the author was really pulling from & looking back at what was occurring during the past years leading to 2021, as well as the past as a whole. So now in 2024, the commentary stands even taller with the upcoming years we are going to experience.
I definitely think this would be a great beginner graphic novel for adult readers as well because a lot of this novel is told though text as much as it is told though panels, and amazing LGBT+ / Queer representation though out the book really made me enjoy the graphic novel even more of course. It’s a really good book it even has a really nice section of the book that is an ode to / a love letter to the imperfect internet & a message of making sure we that we preserve & archive it. Lots of questioning of government & technology the way we use it & the way the government uses it, and commentary of the surveillance state that we live in & are all currently under. Definitely a Book that is at the top of my list of books I read in 2024.
December 6, 2021
3.5 / ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Short While is an unexpectedly emotional tale of two men who meet after swapping jackets at a party. Set to the backdrop of what remains of a post-internet sci-fi dystopic society, we follow these two men that fall in love and open up to each other only to find that vulnerability opens you up to being hurt.
Honestly, the synopsis did not prepare me for the epic that I encountered. I found the setting completely fascinating. The pencil drawings feel very artsy in a way that was initially lost on me, but I actually grew to really enjoy. Something that makes The Short While different from your typical graphic novel is the addition of narration outside of the actual graphics. Much of the storytelling is done through that text, but that’s not to say that TSW isn’t full of expressive art. The main characters, Paolo and Colin, are sweet and realistic. Flawed, scared, and multidimensional.
So while this isn’t my normal type of read, I found it quite engaging. I’ll be recommending it to a friend of mine who sells queer comics and any artsy queers who ask.
I received an ARC from the publisher and Natgalley for the opportunity to leave an unbiased review.
The Short While is an unexpectedly emotional tale of two men who meet after swapping jackets at a party. Set to the backdrop of what remains of a post-internet sci-fi dystopic society, we follow these two men that fall in love and open up to each other only to find that vulnerability opens you up to being hurt.
Honestly, the synopsis did not prepare me for the epic that I encountered. I found the setting completely fascinating. The pencil drawings feel very artsy in a way that was initially lost on me, but I actually grew to really enjoy. Something that makes The Short While different from your typical graphic novel is the addition of narration outside of the actual graphics. Much of the storytelling is done through that text, but that’s not to say that TSW isn’t full of expressive art. The main characters, Paolo and Colin, are sweet and realistic. Flawed, scared, and multidimensional.
So while this isn’t my normal type of read, I found it quite engaging. I’ll be recommending it to a friend of mine who sells queer comics and any artsy queers who ask.
I received an ARC from the publisher and Natgalley for the opportunity to leave an unbiased review.
February 21, 2022
An absolute visual feast, though I think at times the scope and ambition of the work outpaced its storytelling. I was reminded, in that sense, of the The Gilda Stories, which also is both hugely ambitious speculative storytelling and a queer narrative that can by nature rely less on cultural shorthand, and in holding these two difficult things together sometimes ends up doing more telling-than-showing. I do think it is significantly more successful than The Gilda Stories, both because Sorese is such a masterful artist that his technical virtuosity on that front can sometimes make up for some clunky exposition, and because there have been an intervening thirty years or so of queer storytelling language development.
December 13, 2021
I’m normally not a fan of comics intermixing with prose, but this book gave me an insight into how these two mediums can be blended and made into a moving adult picture book. Sorese doesn’t give us too much text at a time, just enough to fill us in on and pique our interest in the world he’s creating. The text also made me stay with the book longer than I would with a pure graphic novel, which gave the story greater weight in my mind.
As for the narrative, it’s highly character driven and all those characters are wonderfully fleshed out. Their struggles give us a better understanding of our own, even if we live in a different (albeit not completely different?) world.
Sorese’s art style is warm and round and dare I say muppet-like? But I think that’s what makes Sorese such a great creator — he takes things we’re accustomed to seeing in children’s books (picture books, exaggerated expressions and yes, muppets) and makes them work with deeper, more mature themes.
Anyway, a big recommend from me.
As for the narrative, it’s highly character driven and all those characters are wonderfully fleshed out. Their struggles give us a better understanding of our own, even if we live in a different (albeit not completely different?) world.
Sorese’s art style is warm and round and dare I say muppet-like? But I think that’s what makes Sorese such a great creator — he takes things we’re accustomed to seeing in children’s books (picture books, exaggerated expressions and yes, muppets) and makes them work with deeper, more mature themes.
Anyway, a big recommend from me.
April 29, 2022
I could go on and on about everything about this book but I'll keep it brief! I love the relationships in this. They feel so real, and flawed, and interesting. The art is gorgeous, and while I was put off by the format at first (big blocks of text with illustrations in between and some comic pages) I got used to it by the end and it actually felt like a very effective way to tell such a complicated story. I disagree with reviews saying that this format was bad, boring, or uneccessary. I can't imagine how long this book would be if the authors tried to explain all of the history that impacts the story in comic form. I found the information in the text super interesting!! And it added to my understanding of what was going on with the characters and the story.
The worldbuilding was so good and this was genuinely the most interesting sci-fi dystopia (? futuristic basically) story I've ever read. This is such a huge inspiration to my own stories, and I would definitely recommend it.
(Not to mention its got so much interesting lgbtq+ representation!! Gotta love that)
The worldbuilding was so good and this was genuinely the most interesting sci-fi dystopia (? futuristic basically) story I've ever read. This is such a huge inspiration to my own stories, and I would definitely recommend it.
(Not to mention its got so much interesting lgbtq+ representation!! Gotta love that)
June 28, 2023
This book is so beautiful. It took me longer than I thought to read because I wanted to give it my full attention and Sorese has such incredible control over the pacing that I never wanted to skip forward or slow down. Every page shines with attention and care and frequently an almost overwhelming intimacy. The story has so much it wants to talk about and every topic is touched upon with care and consideration, nothing left unexplored; for me this elicited an experience of deep closeness to the characters and I really loved the way every plotline was layered and tangled so elegantly with all the others. I love the amount of texture in the art and I especially love the use of light- there's a page where a character turns the lights on after being in darkness for a while and the drawing perfectly emulates the feeling of your vision whiting out for a few seconds. I felt a lot of feelings, including that I might cry in a public place a couple of times. Hard recommend.
November 11, 2021
The Short While is a long comic with a lot on offer. Traditional page setups with panels and word balloons are interspersed with sections featuring blocks of text with supporting illustrations, providing two rather different reading experiences between which the reader ping-pongs. There are tantalizing bits of worldbuilding here, a future with both utopian and dystopian elements co-existing. Sorese explores the relationship between the central two lovers sensitively, but also does the same for the other relationships that helped to shape the protagonists as individuals and as partners. There are also glimpses of how technology, violence, and trauma affect human connections. The result is a touching if somewhat discursive romance with moments of great joy and great sadness. Love doesn't have to be eternal to be life-changing and meaningful.
abandoned
November 13, 2021Two men are brought together after accidentally picking up each other's similar jackets. I've seen a few stories lately which take that as a jumping off point, using it to get anywhere from existential terror to madcap comedy, but this one felt like it was going for multiple angles at once in a way that didn't convince me. An authoritarian regime recently fell, the sort that had executions, and it's increasingly unclear whether the new boss is any better than the old boss, but people, gay guys included, still seem to be going about their daily lives unbothered; technology has changed in all sorts of ill-defined ways, yet that daily life still looks much as it did in pre-Event modernity. All of which I could perhaps have got over if I got on with the art style, but those pinched eyes and phallic noses really aren't my bag.
(Netgalley ARC)
(Netgalley ARC)
May 30, 2022
An fascinating queer perspective on futuristic science fiction.
This is a story packed full of societal and cultural “what if?”s that make for a rich and dynamic world that feels both fantastic and oddly plausible. We see these layers of world-building through the lens of a love story and it’s aftermath– a refreshingly modern exploration of non-traditional relationships and their potential to fulfill the nuanced needs of complex people.
The mixed comics & prose format feels natural and flows together well– I’m surprised I haven’t seen it more often in publishing.
After reading this + Curveball, you really get a sense of Jeremy’s worldview and vision for both the future and the present. Looking forward to more expansions on this universe.
This is a story packed full of societal and cultural “what if?”s that make for a rich and dynamic world that feels both fantastic and oddly plausible. We see these layers of world-building through the lens of a love story and it’s aftermath– a refreshingly modern exploration of non-traditional relationships and their potential to fulfill the nuanced needs of complex people.
The mixed comics & prose format feels natural and flows together well– I’m surprised I haven’t seen it more often in publishing.
After reading this + Curveball, you really get a sense of Jeremy’s worldview and vision for both the future and the present. Looking forward to more expansions on this universe.
July 8, 2025
first graphic novel i’ve read in years! i enjoyed the art style and structure— how it transitions from paragraphs to comics to diagrams. i found myself caring for the characters, but there was something lacking— maybe i just wasn’t satisfied with how paolo and colin’s relationship progressed, despite it being realistic? additionally, while there were social and political contexts to their country and government that were shocking and creative, there were moments that lacked clarity and overall made the world-building a bit clunky. i needed a quick read though, and it was still thought-provoking and sweet!
March 24, 2022
a strange, endearing, and ultimately uplifting story of identity, love, and self discovery told in an alternative not so different future.
i was a little thrown off by the mix of traditional graphic novel design and then a combination of more traditional narrative paragraph structure with illustrations in the background or surrounding. and sometimes the story cut off at certain points where i was not expecting it to.
but i found the two main characters very fun to get to know and very personable.
i was a little thrown off by the mix of traditional graphic novel design and then a combination of more traditional narrative paragraph structure with illustrations in the background or surrounding. and sometimes the story cut off at certain points where i was not expecting it to.
but i found the two main characters very fun to get to know and very personable.
December 7, 2021
Thank you to NetGalley and Boom Studios/Archaia for a free advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Jeremy Sorese's The Short While has a lot of moving parts and is best absorbed slowly over a couple reading sessions. It was a beautiful and deeply moving story about love and happiness in a world that is not always kind.
Sorese's illustrations and sequential work were lovely, and I'm happy to have read this.
Jeremy Sorese's The Short While has a lot of moving parts and is best absorbed slowly over a couple reading sessions. It was a beautiful and deeply moving story about love and happiness in a world that is not always kind.
Sorese's illustrations and sequential work were lovely, and I'm happy to have read this.
January 17, 2022
Not really a graphic novel due to the excessive amounts of writing which felt more like an info dump than a story. It forgot the key idea of show and not tell.
The central idea is quite sweet with the deliberately switched jackets to create a relationship between the main characters but the story needs to be more focused on this. Too much was being attempted a relationship story, futuristic, crime etc.
The central idea is quite sweet with the deliberately switched jackets to create a relationship between the main characters but the story needs to be more focused on this. Too much was being attempted a relationship story, futuristic, crime etc.
March 15, 2024
i think for being very much a post dystopian sci fi, it feels so much more like a memoir and i love that,, the environment is just there-the different memories and relationships are the focus. also amazing art and pacing tbh,, and last thing is i realized this guy worked on the steven universe comics after searching their name on here
December 20, 2021
A heartbreaking queer scifi slice of life. Gorgeous art and a really successful and refreshing blend of comics and prose. I loved this
May 17, 2022
Felt too text-heavy
July 28, 2022
Dnf at 37%, 3/10
October 19, 2022
An unusual and touching story in a possible near future world. Definitely unique.
abandoned-and-samples
November 18, 2022I received an eSample courtesy of Archaia.
January 3, 2023
Beautiful, profound, fun, queer, tragic, tender!💟 I loved it thank u Jeremy sorese!
January 4, 2023
The ending explains the entire book: Meals are had. Some stay with you in memory. In spirit. Others will fade. Yet getting there is a long, hard, confusing process.
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