Boys Be… 12
February 14, 2008
After being totally turned off of the series by the past volume or so, now the series will forever be branded in my mind as “oh yeah, that comic where the couple farts together and the grandpa slips them viagra.”
That’s actually two separate stories, but it’s easy to pretend they’re not since the character designs are all pretty similar at this point.
In one story, a grandfather feels her daughter is too prudish, so he tricks her and her boyfriend into taking viagra he bought in America. Yes, that is actually the plot.
In the other story, a girl accidentally lets one slip, the boy tries to make her feel better about it and only succeeds in embarrassing her, then lets one rip in a last-ditch effort to make her forget her faux pas.
In addition to the content of these two stories, I was also surprised that sex is addressed in 3 or so of the stories in this volume where it was only hinted at, used as a joke, or skirted in every other story so far. One couple actually succeeds in getting it on. Two other couples get close enough that you might suspect it actually happens more frequently in this series. I was very, very surprised.
None of this is enough to save it from the long string of mediocre volumes that came before this one, mind you, but yeah, I could go for more volumes like this. I suppose it will remain to be seen if even that novelty will wear off if similarly shocking/gross-out things keeps happening in later volumes, but hey. We’ll see.
February 14, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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