Small Favors...

[fajrdrako]

I read a comic yesterday that I'd never heard of before: Colleen Coover's Small Favors #4, from 2001. How on earth did I miss this one? It's billed as a 'girly porno comic book' but I would think 'romantic sex comedy' is a more accurate description. I picked it up largely because I thought the protagonist Annie looked like Hopey from Love and Rockets, a long-time favourite bi-girl character - and because erotic comics about, by and for girls is pretty much my kind of thing.

The good thing about it: it's cute, it's fun, it's sexy, and it makes a person feel good about girlsex and about life.

The bad thing about it: I was somewhat disappointed that Annie's cute girlfriend, Nibbil, isn't a real girl. She's a... a sort of anthropomorphization of Annie's sexual conscience. Which doesn't fit so well with my own sense of sex fantasy. And, well, it's so very, very cute.

Comments

[gem225.livejournal.com]

Oh, this sounds good. I'm going to pick it up or order it if I have to - I'll check the local comics stores tomorrow. Thanks a lot for the link!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I hope you enjoy it! I'm hoping to find the earlier issues, but I'm not sure how: they seem to be out of print. Worth looking for, anyway.

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen it reviewed online, and I like the concept, but it does look awfully cute. I mean, porn should be raunchy, too, even if it's feminist-approved.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Maybe it comes under the heading of "you can't have everything", or "you can't have everything at once". I liked it, but it was ... definitely sugary, and I prefer a little spice.

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

Doesn't stop us from wanting what we want. I want hardcore with good characterization, powerplay but light on the fetishes, women who don't look fake, and guys who are kinda bishi or who are such awesome characters that I don't care if they're, like, bears.

Which may be TMI ; )

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nope, not TMI, I like all that too, I think, and more besides. My tastes are... what, wide? Diverse? Flexible? So I like the sweetness of Small Favors but it does seem vaguely insufficient, though sexy.

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

Like pairings, I'd go for a wide range of porn if it were *good* in a way that porn very rarely is, from what I've seen. Since I don't have the time or the budget, and since porn isn't very important to me, there's no way I'm going to go searching for stuff that's satisfactory. I bet things are better in the 51st century ...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Since I'm never sure what other people mean by porn - and they seem to mean a wide range of different things - I tend to avoid the word. I don't think I like any commercial/professional porn, though there is the occasional pornlike thing I do like, like Small Favors. There are many sex stories online that I love, mostly slash and/or fanfic, and it's a matter of finding the right authors, sources, and communities. I like really, really, really well-written and highly characterized porn. Authors like Thamiris (in Smallville) and Sebastian (in The Professionals).

I'm sure things are much better in the 51st century. In a lot of ways.
Not sure about those 'terrible creatures' they were at war with, though...