Published September 2024 via Little, Brown Ink
★★★
Evan is living out his Queen Bee status at school—he has a thriving Instagram account, he's head of the GSA, and he shepherds his friends as he sees fit. Never mind that he doesn't have much of a love life of his own—that'll come with time.
This is the second campy-ish gay Emma retelling I've read recently, and I can't be disappointed by that. I like how clear it is, too, that Evan is trying to do the right thing—he makes mistakes, but he owns up to them pretty quickly and genuinely does try to do better.
The art is not really for me. It's attractive, and I'd enjoy it in a comic book, but I prefer a more complex style for graphic novels. (I also struggled with the placement of some of the speech bubbles—many panels where there's only one character in the panel, but two are talking, and the off-panel character's speech bubbles have little relation to where they are and no directional...arrow? I'm not sure what that little part of a speech bubble is called.) I'd also have liked to see a bit more...humor? Emma is so witty, bitingly so, and while Evan has his moments, we're missing characters like Mr. Woodhouse to add that extra layer of snark. Still a fun read, but not quite the level of depth I'd have liked to see.
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