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juushikaGo read Pinky & Pepper Forever! Fondly pressing my UIR tag to its forehead like a produce sticker.
Title: The Confessional
Author: Paige Hender
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2025
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Page Count: 200
Total Page Count: 562,355
Text Number: 2122
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: A young vampire struggling to adapt to her new life begins a questionable romance with a vigilante priest. This is solid, polished, and satisfying: consistent art that has a lot of fun with background details and monster design, a distinct historical setting, and a combo of dark, manipulative romance and vampire found family. I like it! And it's effectively a first novel, with the subsequent limitations that I'd expect, particularly in heavy-handed resolutions to the interpersonal elements, that kept me from doing more than liking it.
Title: Pinky & Pepper Forever
Author: Eddy Atoms
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2025 (2018)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 135
Total Page Count: 562,490
Text Number: 2123
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: Puppygirl art school girlfriends break up when Pinky commits suicide, and get back together when Pepper follows her to hell. This (furry, cartoony, of a certain age and angst) isn't my style; it grew on me, anyway. The metaphor of inhabiting, owning, & enjoying societal (expectations of) suffering is effective and, better, a lot of fun. Distinctive, vibrant, strongly figured; dynamic character/relationship arcs without ever compromising on codependent lesbian pups.
The comic is 80 pages; the 2025 special edition has a bunch of bonus material. Great bonus material, too; the mixed-media style and development of OCs who began as fashion dolls enriches the reading experience.
Title: Cry Wolf Girl
Author: Ariel Slamet Ries
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2019
Rating: N/A
Page Count: 50
Total Page Count: 562,540
Text Number: 2124
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: I don't get on with narratives that are just about mental illness. Vibrant, effective art; read it, it works; but I bounced off it like a rubber ball.
Title: The Confessional
Author: Paige Hender
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2025
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Page Count: 200
Total Page Count: 562,355
Text Number: 2122
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: A young vampire struggling to adapt to her new life begins a questionable romance with a vigilante priest. This is solid, polished, and satisfying: consistent art that has a lot of fun with background details and monster design, a distinct historical setting, and a combo of dark, manipulative romance and vampire found family. I like it! And it's effectively a first novel, with the subsequent limitations that I'd expect, particularly in heavy-handed resolutions to the interpersonal elements, that kept me from doing more than liking it.
Title: Pinky & Pepper Forever
Author: Eddy Atoms
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2025 (2018)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 135
Total Page Count: 562,490
Text Number: 2123
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: Puppygirl art school girlfriends break up when Pinky commits suicide, and get back together when Pepper follows her to hell. This (furry, cartoony, of a certain age and angst) isn't my style; it grew on me, anyway. The metaphor of inhabiting, owning, & enjoying societal (expectations of) suffering is effective and, better, a lot of fun. Distinctive, vibrant, strongly figured; dynamic character/relationship arcs without ever compromising on codependent lesbian pups.
The comic is 80 pages; the 2025 special edition has a bunch of bonus material. Great bonus material, too; the mixed-media style and development of OCs who began as fashion dolls enriches the reading experience.
Title: Cry Wolf Girl
Author: Ariel Slamet Ries
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2019
Rating: N/A
Page Count: 50
Total Page Count: 562,540
Text Number: 2124
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: I don't get on with narratives that are just about mental illness. Vibrant, effective art; read it, it works; but I bounced off it like a rubber ball.
