More Dykes to Watch Out For (DtWOF, #2) by Alison Bechdel

More Dykes to Watch Out For (DtWOF, #2) Reviews

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  Tony Vacation

  As nice as the first volume was, More Dykes is a very welcome improvement, ditching the Sunday Funnies format of one-shots (and also the abecedarian catalogue of lesbians) for a lengthy serialized story featuring Mo, a neurotic woman on the verge of emotional, psychological and several other forms of breakdowns if she doesn't get a job and get laid fast! Bless Bechdel for being both socially conscious and humanely sensitive, but also for being irreverent and not afraid of capitalizing on the humor of political correctness. Also, I love that Bechdel clearly loves women, and loves drawing them in all shapes and sizes with a lusty tenderness. And I ask you, how can you not find joy in a work that features these two great sentences: "The first time I touched her was a slow blow to her sweaty jaw." "I disguised my swoon with an attempted handstand."
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  Soph Nova

  A very enjoyable small collection from Bechdel’s famous comic on lesbians and political life in the 80’s.
  
  “Since when have you become an expert on the rate of casual sex in the lesbian community, sister celibate?”
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  Mintti

  Sarjakuvahaasteeseen tuli luettua tämä kohtaan LGBTQ sarjakuvaa. En ollut ennen lukenut näitä ja tykkäsin kyllä kovasti. Ykkösosa taitaa olla niin vanha, ettei meidän kirjastoista sitä löytynyt, mutta aloitin kakkosesta.
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  Anna Reta Maria

  These comics are brilliant.
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  Emily

  I love how she draws sex
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  shrav

  MOHARRIET😭😭😭😭 this reminds me of that one naomi mcpherson quote “gay gay horny horny cigarettes”
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  Emily

  In which our intrepid heroine has a serious crush on a trainee doctor who trains karate with her, but hasn’t had sex for about two years; is unemployed but gets a job at Madwimmin Bookshop; bores the hell out of all her friends with her socially conscious celibate misery; and is the recipient of Harriet’s phone number. They go on a march together which includes a kiss-in and getting arrested, but will they or won’t they? Harriet points out that kissing is relatively low risk when it comes to AIDS. There then follows ‘A Mildly Erotic Epilogue’ in which Alison Bechdel demonstrates her ability to express great deal of emotion with some spare line drawing of eyebrows and eyes, and apparently simple but so difficult to do – foreshortening of fulsome breasts owned by Harriet.
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  C.

  I haven't read nearly as much of Bechdel's long running comic strip (think of it as a queer "Doonesbury") as I would like; I bought two volumes of the series when I was the advisor for a LGBT alliance at Walton, and they both promptly disapeared. Not that I minded terribly, as I'm sure they found their way into the hands of teens who needed them more than I did.
  
  Anyway, the characters are perfect, the emotions pitch-perfect, at times funny, sad, and always true. Bechdel has done much more than create a "gay comic strip," she's made a comic strip that should appeal to anyone who cares about good characters and good stories told in sequential art.
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  Katri

  Hyvää jatkoa ensimmäiselle albumille. Onneksi vielä kaksi jäljellä!
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  Piia (kirjatarhuri)

  3,5⭐️
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  Skyler

  Bechdel's lines are clean, her jokes land solidly, and her lesbians are varied enough to build engaging arcs around. As a collection, Mo's constant political anxieties and whining can begin to grate on readers and characters alike, but recognizing that many of her fears have been realized in the decades since publication makes this a sobering read.
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  Ryan

  Honestly, maybe the best synthesis of radical politics, humor and emotional weight of anything I've read in a minute. Not sure why I waited so long but guess I thought it'd be more so the starting block of her work leading to 'Fun Home' and other later works but I actually think I prefer it.
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  Elina

  Muuten oikein hyvä ja viihdyttävä sarjakuvateos, mutta itseäni vaivasi syrjivä suhtautuminen sukupuolivähemmistöihin ja bi-seksualisuuteen. Toivon sen johtuvan teoksen iästä, mutta se valitettavasti sakotti todella paljon fiilistä.
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  changeableLandscape

  The first volume was disconnected one-page comics, very funny but not a story. This one starts an actual story and I loved it.
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  Dhwani

  I wish I could be friends with Bechdel.
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  KJ Velz

  Ugh! Loved seeing these characters emerge in 86 finally after the first one. Really sweet ending scene with Harriet and Mo. I need more!
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  J.

  I relate to Mo’s overthinking paralysis so much.
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  Kathrine Bruflot

  Jeg leser denne serien med jevne mellomrom, fordi den tar meg inn i et lesbisk miljø jeg kjenner tilhørighet til.
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  Milouch

  Meilleure découverte de l'année !
  Une BD où l'on suit la vie d'une petite dizaine de personnage queer, leur questionement politique, leur problèmes de couples...
  Le hasard a voulu que je commence par le tome 2 de la série, conjugué au style de planche avec des cases plutôt petite et en noir et blanc ça a pu rendre la lecture un peu ardue au début. Mais une fois passé ce petit gap, la BD vaut vraiment le coup ! C'est pleins de petites trouvailles de mise en page : les titres de journeaux qui changent au fur et à mesure des cases, des transisitions entre les cases toujours très drôle : "pendant ce temps la dans une autre tranche d'imposition"....
  Et l'histoire que ça raconte m'a énormément touchée. J'ai même été surprise que des problématiques que je croyais récente dans la comunauté queer ait pu être posées dans les mêmes termes il y a plus de 20 ans maintenant. Je me suis sentie connectée et représentée par ces personnages et c'est si rare que c'est toujours un plaisir quand ça arrive !
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  Kevin

  The self-contained strips not bound to a plot are funny and in many ways wittier than the continuing stories with Mo. However, Mo's adventures are compelling to read to witness the development of the characters, and they also show a more fully realised view of lesbian lifestyles. Bechdel manages, with varying success, to still contribute witty observations of the earlier comic strips through using specific characters as conduits. Still fantastic and witty nonetheless, and an educational time capsule that is entertaining at the same time.
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  Rachel

  This was fine. It did get a little more interesting once she introduced recurring characters and plots, but I still didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I like her graphic novels.
  
  I think it's weirdly problematic for me that they crammed the strips onto little pages for these books. The drawings look like they've been wedged onto the page with a crowbar, so the strips seem uglier and harder to read than they probably should. I think that was subliminally causing me to enjoy them less.
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  Julie Rylie

  So I started the collection of Dykes to watch out for directly from the 6th Chapter or something, which was quite dumb from me. In my defense I didn't know it was a part of this collection because in German they always have another titles and I am only renting what is available in the Library.
  
  But it was nice to see, here in NR. 2 how Mo met her last girlfriend, how Clarisse and Tony met each other, that Mo was actually dating Clarisse before, etc.
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  Conrad

  Bechdel's characters are witty, varied, and self-conscious. (The affectionate jabs at feminist bookstores in here are worth the price of admission.) This book is where the series really gets going, and it's probably the best place to start, too, since the characters age over time, and More Dykes To Watch Out For catches them when they're all still a little naive.
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  Jimyanni

  This book is a collection of cartoons showing an iside look at the lives of a group of lesbians in the late 1980s; the artwork is realistic and well-done, the characters are realistically unique even as they represent different "personality types" common in the lesbian community, and the humor is gentle. The situations are frequently poignant and strike me as quite honest and true.
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  Rachel

  Halfway through this book you will find the beginning of the Dykes to Watch Out for series. The story focuses on Mo and her search for a girlfriend. Plenty of political commentary and humor are interspersed among insightful depictions of lesbian relationships. If you haven't read any of the DTWOF books though, here is where you start!
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  Andrew Wildman

  I have read this so often it is starting to crumble. I love this series SO much. I have grown up with it, starting them when I was in my twenties. I feel the characters are my friends in a way, so familiar are they. The art work is so mesmerizing you quickly lose track of reality and are sucked into the narrative.
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  Michelle

  More Dykes is similar to the first collection, but starts to introduce some recurring characters. It's still lighthearted but also conscious of debates over radical versus assimilationist lifestyles, and the impact of daily homophobia. The open discussion of AIDS must have been really groundbreaking!