The Packbats' Weblog

Reminded of the existence of The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal" today.

(Content warnings include: homophobia (incl. family), alcohol use (incl. once to blackout), smoking (nicotine and marijuana), other drugs, food (specifically non-vegan), genitals and sex on-panel, someone getting punched, discussion of stressful subjects, casual ableist language of the kind that's typical basically everywhere, background 2008 Democratic primary election.)

...I feel like we must have read it circa 2012 - kind of in the middle of our heavy webcomics-reading period. As webcomics go, it's pretty gorgeous - lovely sketch-like art with occasional vistas, generally wonderful and elaborate detail - and the story is extremely solid. The emotional dynamics feel extremely real, the dialogue is fantastic, and the plot has a good arc and meaning.

Developing an appreciation of content warnings has been weird for us, because a lot of the stuff we find really comforting and nice and valuable needs very heavy ones? Bad stuff happened to these people but this story is about something better happening to them now. And about a long car trip. And about people clicking with each other really quickly. And about a lot of different kinds of music, and about conversations at restaurants, and about stopping and looking at really wonderful scenery.