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marlowe145.Komi Can't Communicate by Tomohito Oda - The entry of Ren Yamai into this series is the definite adrenaline kick that I didn't know it needed. I actually noticed her in the first volume since she threatened the protagonist in such a crazy way, but in this one the depth of her obsession with Komi is insane and hilarious. The main joke is that she sees Komi as the most wonderful and ideal woman in the world but Komi doesn't talk to her and has never talked to her and the whole premise of the book is the fact that Komi is too shy to even talk to her best friends unless absolutely necessary. But since Komi is also the prettiest girl in the high school no one even notices just how silent she is all the time. Anyhow Ren Yamai kidnaps Tandano and locks him in her room because she's offended that Komi would even talk to such a basic dude. There's other stuff but Komi is definitely a draw. Still confusing that she can only speak by writing down the words but she doesn't have an online presence. But I think that's just something you have to ignore.
46.Paper Girls 1 by Brian K Vaughan & Cliff Chiang - I don't like Y: The Last Man. I tried to like it. I really did, but even on the second reading in anticipation of the show, I can't get into it. Too many coincidences. Too many straw feminists. He's trying too hard to say something deep about human nature but failing. By contrast, I really like this one. I don't know if he's trying to do anything besides a time traveling pulp science fiction story where teenagers from the future are severely disfigured. The 1986 time period means that when a future teenager refers to his boyfriend one of the characters acts disgusted (oh the reaction to Heathers and its rampant homophobia - sorry that's just pretty accurate to the time) and the one ends with a cliffhanger of a character running into her future self. And it all begins with teenage girls trying to make a living delivering papers. I like it.
46.Paper Girls 1 by Brian K Vaughan & Cliff Chiang - I don't like Y: The Last Man. I tried to like it. I really did, but even on the second reading in anticipation of the show, I can't get into it. Too many coincidences. Too many straw feminists. He's trying too hard to say something deep about human nature but failing. By contrast, I really like this one. I don't know if he's trying to do anything besides a time traveling pulp science fiction story where teenagers from the future are severely disfigured. The 1986 time period means that when a future teenager refers to his boyfriend one of the characters acts disgusted (oh the reaction to Heathers and its rampant homophobia - sorry that's just pretty accurate to the time) and the one ends with a cliffhanger of a character running into her future self. And it all begins with teenage girls trying to make a living delivering papers. I like it.
