I'd originally meant to blog this book during my Pride Month readings, but I got bogged down with work so it got shifted. That said, I'll reiterate what I said in my previous review of one of these collections - it's great. Alison Bechdel's cast is by turns ridiculous and real, which really is what real life feels like, so the characters come across as real. I feel like I'm reading comics about people I know, which, despite her many technical proficiencies, is the true gift that Ms. Bechdel gives the queer community in this series. And while we're starting to see such depictions in media nowadays (can't wait for Supergirl to start up again), Dykes to Watch Out For was doing this at a time when the idea of a queer person being an actual person, not a stererotype, was just about unheard of.
Given my current propensity for undergrounds, imagine the candor of the undergrounds crossed with Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse.
Maybe?
Onward!
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