Lars the Awkward Yeti Volume 1

Awkward Yeti #1

by Nick Seluk

Lars The Awkward Yeti is an ongoing gag-a-day webcomic by New York Times best-selling author Nick Seluk. Started in 2012, the comic follows the daily life of Lars, a socially awkward blue yeti, trying to get by in day-to-day life. This is the first of a trilogy of collected editions of Lars stories, past and present, where it all started. 

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Comic Book

160 pages, Paperback

Published May 3, 2022

About the author

Creator of The Awkward Yeti and its New York Times Bestselling Heart and Brain series, the "Kind of a Big Deal" series for Scholastic, the card game OrganATTACK and many others. Nick resides in Michigan with his overly affectionate cat, Taz, and has three amazing kids. He enjoys thinking about wanting to run, playing guitar okayly, and being generally childlike.

Reviews

[Giovanna Tufano · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Funny!

[Becky B · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of comics featuring Lars, a blue yeti and his relatable self-care, social, and mental health challenges.

Some of these are laugh out loud funny, while others are just deserving of a smirk in my opinion. Overall, Lars is relatable and puts a comic twist on everyday events and thoughts.

Notes on content: No language issues. No sexual content. There's some cartoon falls and car crashes and such but everyone is fine by the next panel usually. Mental health challenges are realistically depicted with a comic tone. Physical health challenges are depicted in comics. Some alcohol consumption in a few comics.

[Anma Natsu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the Awkward Yeti comics so was really happy about this volume and backed it on Kickstarter. It is a great collection of the earlier comics with a few bonus Heart & Brain ones. The only drawback to this volume is that the format and size are way too small for these comics, so some of the print is almost unreadable on some comics, particularly the Action Guy and Machines Awaken strips, the latter of which also have script print so being too small makes it even worse. No idea why they didn't go with a larger, full-page format like similar comics.

[Kayla Zabcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

75%

"He searches high and low for meaning in the world and in his life. Seeking the sense of accomplishment he's spent his life working towards. Suddenly it occurs to him: life is like running in a hamster wheel suspended in a void. Running IS the accomplishment.

I think this is some of his earlier work, before heart and brain made their first appearances. For now, anxiety rules the house.

[Adriana · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's very obvious that this is a collection of Seluk's first comics as you can see the characters and themes of the current comics taking shape within the pages of this volume but it's missing some of the streamlining he's so good at now.
Still fun and, oh, so relatable, but a little unpolished.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book in the library catalog somewhat randomly, and it sounded kinda funny and cute. I feel like I've seen these comics floating around on the interwebs. Overall these had more of a "sensible chuckle" feel to them.

[Andrea Manganiello · Rating 2 out of 5]

Di poco sotto la sufficienza, strisce che purtroppo sono invecchiate male, quacheduna mi ha fatto sorridere, ma il livello complessivo è bassino.

[Alyssa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sadly, this was very underwhelming and more depressing than funny. Not what I expected in a comic series.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick and cute read!

[Diana Flores · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun collection of relatable comics. I read this at work and had to control myself as I wanted to show my colleagues nearly every page.

[Beth Bauman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This, was weird? It was insightful and true, but not particularly funny, more sad-funny or awkward-funny. And what is it with the disturbing talking bird theme? Idk.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun, quick lunchtime read.

[Emmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read a bunch of these comics online, so it was fun having a book that I could just binge-read!

[Ash · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some relatable comics, especially the one about the eye exam or the holding the door one.