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No One Wants to Pay Me for my Broken Heart #1

What a great title! Sure, it’s a pain to type, but it really sums everything up after you’ve read the book. My computer decided that it didn’t like my last review so it’s gone, but I’ll try it again. It’s tricky to pull off a book like this. Relationship books have to make you care about the people involved and they have to make you believe that said relationship could happen, and this book pulls off both of those pretty well. The art’s adorable, the characters look a lot like those Fischer Price figures. The writing seems real and believable, which is essential. The story here is basically about a young man and his new girlfriend. The girlfriend has a comic strip in a school paper and the young man has just made a video about his feelings of his breakup with his last girlfriend. The video gets him his first real responses for his work, but it’s strained his current relationship a bit. This isn’t a perfect book, as there are times when the panel layout is confusing, and the art is so simple that at times it’s hard to tell some characters apart. Still, it’s a great first effort, or if it’s not a first effort then it’s still a really solid book. Send the man an e-mail or check out his site, I think it’s a buck of two…