I enjoyed all the captioning. And who can argue with the sentiment "Sometimes you just need to weep into a burrito?"

I really love this pastel pink, black, and white comic. I’ve been wanting to find it since i started listening to Baker’s podcasts years ago, and i wasn’t disappointed. F* Off Squad follows three friends as they navigate love and friendships. The art is amazing and tells the stories in such artful, interesting ways, utilizing instagram, video games, and music in natural yet fresh methods. It's quite stunning. Also, the queer poc representation is very cool.

Definitely want more of this story.

I semi screamed out “Wait that’s it?” on the last page because everything just ended out of nowhere, nobody grew, and there was no resolution. 18 year old me would have LOVED this because I was just like the characters. Confused about life. At 27 I’m still confused about life but with massive bills to pay, I don’t have time to dwell. I’m like the waitress on the 2nd to last page.

Artwork was amazing. The panels were so unique. The pink at times was a bit annoying, especially when trying to read the text messages.

This is a fun, intimate snapshot of three friends as they navigate the complicated romantic relationships in their lives. I love Goux's art style and as the essay in the back noted, the use of captions does a great bit of world-building while being coy and avoiding a wall of text. A nice short story that doesn't necessarily offer any answers or much resolution, but strives to capture what dating and loving is like in your late teens/early twenties.

Very glad I got to meet the team at NYCC 2018 :)

Picked this up at Quimby's in Chicago over the weekend. Really 3.5, but I couldn't give it a full 4. I loved the art style, all black and white with washes of pink, although the pale pink on white made any text message exchanges in the book impossible to read. The characters were stylized and really cute, and I'm probably not cool enough to hang out with any of them.

Unfortunately, while the story starts off strong, there are a bunch of unfinished loose ends and the story just kind of...ends, in a way that really isn't satisfying and somewhat soured my enjoyment of the book. I really think this would have been better as an ongoing series and not a one-off graphic novel (maybe it is, but I don't think so) so you could get to know the characters a little better and give more of a shit about them. Also, the way Meg speaks is super annoying and takes you out of the story. She stretches vowels a lot, but stresses words that really wouldn't be stressed in a phrase: "That seemed to go weeelll" "She's fuuuuucking self-sabatoging again" "far be it from meeeee to pass judgment" - I can't hear this character's voice in my head because it is so weird.

If you're interested in a story about Instagram romance, lesbian skaters, and dialogue about why Worf from Star Trek is a punk ass deadbeat dad bitch, this is the comic for you.

relationships, "love" and all that shit is REAL 4.5/5 stars

I really like how imperfect each character is. Each character was capable of hurting others and also being hurt by others -- this isn't for folks who are looking for some "happy love story" or even some "heavily traumatic" love story.

Especially for the LGBTQ characters -- queer people can fuck up like straight people and should be allowed to do so and grow from it. AND it was great to see the majority of the characters are people of color.

knocked off .5 stars b/c of one characters relationship w/ a 16 y/o... yikes...

3.5

Love love love! Yay for queer and poc representation!!! Thank you thank you thank you