I wish I liked this collection more than I did, as a fan of Bechdel's work in general, and also because cishet dudes were being such assholes about the stories in it being "feminist homosexual propaganda". They're not, broadly speaking--I would have liked it better if they were, probably. ( )

These are always good. This one was particularly good, imo. ( )

I love Alison Bechdel, but sheesh, this collection made me think I don't read enough. It sort of reminded me of how I feel when I read poetry-did I miss something? I'm not sure I like reading excerpts of comics. It doesn't work for me. There is some really great stuff in here and almost all of the artwork is great. ( )

This is an ok collection. Perhaps I had built too much in my mind ahead of time, but it wasn't as great as I had expected. Part of the problem may lie in the fact that I think there is a lot of terrific work out there that doesn't involve rape, incest, or violence, whereas this year's editor (Alison Bechdel) seems to disagree... ( )

I expected this volume to be a bit more political and feminist in nature, given Alison Bechdel was the editor, but I was a bit disappointed in this regard. While there are selections that certainly both political and feminist, it doesn't strike me as any more so than other years. I also found the GLBT content to be quite lacking. It was still an interesting collection, but not as great as I was expecting from Bechdel. ( )