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I'm super outside the target demographic being an adult and all but I was curious because it was raina telgemeier and scott flipping mccloud collabing on something

and it's basically what you'd expect: charming expressive art and cute storytelling combined with a really lucid description of a bunch of practical aspects of how to tell stories via comics, make mini zines, &c.

I liked it even if it did the ultra-cis thing of having a character introduce themselves as "I use they/them pronouns" and then have the character be indistinguishable from a cis boy in the rest of the narrative

This is frequently how I feel about vonnegut: he has an incredibly unique voice and is amazing at crafting sentences that hit just right.

But I also don't get a lot out of it. Women are almost always non-characters and I find it distracting. I see the cleverness in the setups but feel bored waiting for the punchlines, like I caught the magician setting up for the trick when I wasn't supposed to.

I don't regret reading this book but I also can't really imagine revisiting it.

The romance -> sudden conflict -> happy ending was a little too fast but it was cute!

To me it's mostly of historic interest but I can say it's not as esoteric as you'd think and, fascinatingly, is far more a kind of atheistic self-help text

I get where a lot of modern chaos magick pulls its approach from now

This is probably literary blasphemy but honestly having read both the original and the ryan north penned graphic novel I think this is a bit better

The story is well-served by the format and they judiciously remove some of the casual misogyny that's actively distracting

Very good. Not a happy book but a solid one.