Akiva Reads

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

I've been trying to read this damn series for quite a while. I think I've gotten up to partway through the second or third volume before. I gave it one more shot, from the start, telling myself this was going to be the time it happened---

but. While the art is strangely compelling in its simplicity, I am totally bored by Scott's "funny" (...actually I kind of hate him a lot. if the point of this whole series is "feel for this poor loser!" I'm already sunk), I don't really find the world interesting, and the storyline/relationship is immensely creepy.

I suspect this is all part of the charm for people who like it, but at a certain point I had to ask "why am I making myself read this if I spend so much of it wondering why Ramona hasn't run away screaming yet?"

So I'm done unless someone is extremely persuasive. Or unless Wallace, the only character I am actually interested in, gets a lot more screen time than it looks like he's going to.