Ananth Hirsh

Freaking hilarious. Feels like I'm hanging out with friends.

It's obnoxiously thick for a graphic novel and the ink is different for each quarter of the book: pink to blue to orange to purple. Why? What did nice old-fashioned black ink do wrong? Didn't the publisher realize it'd be difficult to make out pink and orange images under my orange reading lamp? The cats are in 5% of the content - why is the title about cats? Lies.

Petty formatting grievances aside - I love it.

Despite its sci-fi trappings and the occasional poke at the systemic racism we build into our artificial intelligence algorithms, this is content to be a bland and obvious story of enemies to lovers. If it weren't for all the pointless dream sequences I might have rounded my rating up, but there they were and here we are.

A story about AIs, artwork, and relationships? Count me in. I bought this solely because I've been a fan of Hirsh and Ota since I first discovered their webcomic as a teen. I didn't even know what the plot was, I just wanted to support them! Turns out I loved the story and I also enjoyed Doyle's artwork. I felt like it touched on the rivalry between the two girls, their art, and their lives very well. I would even like to see a story like this in a longer format, like as a novel. The colors show more are very rich too. Just overall, really well done. If you're looking for something a bit sci-fi, a bit sad, and very beautiful, check this out! show less

An intriguing, dreamlike story about coming of age in a mirror universe to our own with similar ongoing crises (climate change catastrophes) but also very fantastical elements. I absolutely loved the art in this; every other scene looked like an incredibly rad band poster.