Octopus Pie Volume 2

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BOOKLIST -- Roommates Eve
and Hanna have finally come to somewhat understand each other, but their lives
are still chaotic. Eve and her boyfriend, Park, are navigating tricky
relationship waters as he thinks about moving to Chicago for a job. Meanwhile,
Eve still has feelings for Hanna's drug-dealer friend, Will, who is dating
Marigold, and Hanna is caught up in the drama. Gran's second volume of her
webcomic about slacker, stoner, and hipster twenty-somethings in NYC is slightly
less random than volume one, as the stories deal more with the growing pains of
young adulthood and focus less on odd-ball occurrences. Because of this, the
characters' struggles are more relatable than earlier in the narrative, and
readers familiar with the characters will find themselves a bit melancholy by
the end, though new readers may be lost. Gran's figures-all big heads and wide
eyes-are satisfyingly cartoonish, which in a strange way makes their antics ring
more true. A nice addition to graphic novel collections needing realistic comics
that aren't nonfiction or memoirs.