- Alone Forever: The singles collection. Liz Prince. Compilation of Prince’s autobiographical webcomic detailing her experiences with bad boyfriends, online dating and extended loneliness.
A candid portrayal drawn directly from life, sometimes capturing the kind of anecdotes we all experience sometimes that are hard to justify in terms of telling other than “this seemed like it was worth pointing out”. It is that ‘relatable!’ brand of storytelling combined with Prince’s deceptively simple art style that keeps the comic entertaining.
There are no particular reflections about any of the situations presented; even personal affiliations of Prince (the punk rock scene, her taste for bearded men, and indeed her position as a somewhat famous web-comic author) are all taken for granted.
Nevertheless, quite a few readers have and will still find the overall comic, as said before —relatable!
(I personally preferred “Diario de un solo”, by Catalina Bu, which I felt did a more profound examination of a similar premise —comics about being single drawn from real life. But Bu went deeper into her examination, such as analyzing how this kind of cycle can risk people straying into radicalization. But, I digress).
Overall, entertaining.
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