A review by indiekay
How Could You by Ren Strapp

4.0

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

Oof, the characters in this book are messy messy messy. If you enjoy reading Am I the Asshole subreddit you'll probably really like this.

I didn't love the colours in this - the characters are completely flat with no shading, and their colours are just SUPER bright and disjointed from the backgrounds, which were often in monochromes. There were some scenes that looked nicer (like the Paris stuff and the parts set in night clubs/parties had fun lighting), but the day time stuff colours just didn't mesh for me. And the artist at the end talks about having used a colour board when making the story, but it was not evident to me while reading it I'm afraid.

The panelling was also confusing. If two panels are in line with each other, then that usually means you read those panels after each other - so if the two panels in the left of the page are in line, and the three on the right are in line, you would read it left-down and then right-right. But with this comic they threw those panelling rules out the window, and the rule was always read left to right. There are multiple pages that do this.

That said, I did find the story pretty compelling.