Status Updates From Twisted Romance, Vol. 1

“It’s not that bad, he doesn’t hit her, if she just behaves…”

7th story went too fast but liked the art a lot. 8th story made reading this whole anthology worth it 5☆ perfect (I just love apocalyptic stories). story 9 was meh but mostly because science fiction and anthropomorphic animals rarely work for me. 10th story was lovely! and a present surprise bc I didn't know trung le nguyen had work in here :)

story 2 was cute, story 3 was. weird. i don't get it. art was rad tho. story 4 was ok, i liked the art mostly. it's also the coverart for the whole anthology and the reason I picked it up. tbh wish it was longer. story 5 was cute again. 6th story was too shooort

no pagenrs but I read the first story and I thought it was fun and had potential but wish it was longer bc it just ended up going nowhere

Uneven, but I like that it includes a variety of queer rep like ace and poly as well as MM and FF pairings, and includes paranormal and sci-fi elements in some stories. With the variety I imagine no one would find all of it their cup of tea, but I’ve enjoyed several quite a bit and plan to look into those creators more.

WORDS IN MY COMIC BOOK WHAT KIND OF SCAM IS THIS (i kid its actually pretty fun)

The only illustrated story that made a bit of sense was the one by Trung Le Nguyen. Beautiful art nouveau style art, capturing fairy tales of a certain era, say 1890s-1920? The rest of the stories were bleh or unsatisfying. And the text-only stories were jarring. It doesn’t work to have a mix of sequential art narratives and prose-only ones. I’m either in the mood for one or the other, not both in the same book.