Friedman, Sarah – My Senior Year

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My Senior Year

Is it me or is a little odd for a comic with this title to just barely touch on school? Granted, there is one brief (and funny) strip about her plans after graduation, but other than that it’s all life stuff. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Overall it’s a pretty good comic, although I had a few issues that I’ll throw out there because hey, why else am I here? Oh crap, I better pull back in a hurry or I’ll start questioning why anything is here, then you’re in for a lengthy ramble that nobody wants to see. Her strip about her roommate making a comment while they were watching tv flew right over my head (and I am pointing out early that I am older than her and some things are very likely to fly over my head). Without any sort of context of her life and with this as an opening strip it made no sense to me, other than to imply that people can never have enough blogs. The strip where she was woken up by music from a neighbor in the wee hours of the morning could have been creepy as hell, but I couldn’t interpret her expression on that last panel. I’m guessing “backing away slowly,” as that would make the most sense, but that’s a difficult thing to pull off in a single panel. The babysitting strip was cute; no complaints there. I thought her strip about not having time for real weekends could have used a bit more room to breathe, but it was still kind of funny. The cat adoption story was cute as hell and damned near perfect, although it is a little cruel to leave your readers not knowing what happened after that last panel. Her final strip (outside of the strip I mentioned at the start of the review) about sleeping in was a good example of taking a small victory and making a strip out of it. I get the impression that this is her first comic, in which case she should definitely keep it up, as there’s plenty of potential here. No misspellings or grammatical mistakes are, sadly, a rarity, and a good step in the right direction. Maybe she should try a longer piece or two the next time around to see what comes up. So yes, it might not be perfect, but it is worth a look. $5