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Review: Sunstone, Vol. 1

Sunstone, Vol. 1 Sunstone, Vol. 1 by Stjepan Šejić
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I really don't know how to rate or review this, so I'll start with a little backstory.

So at some point, a month or more ago my friend told me about how a mutual friend/acquaintance of ours (we'll call him Big Gay Stan) had brought lesbian porn comics to school. And was casually reading them in the English class they had together. We had a few chuckles about this and went about our merry ways.

Yesterday I had a meet-up with a different friend. Right when we met up they informed me that Stan was also going to probably join us. I was looking forward to spending time with my friend, but I nodded anyway. So Stan comes and we're off. He's kind of shy and doesn't say much at first, as we hadn't talked in nearly a year. I eventually end up breaking the ice by accidentally punching myself in the jaw (as I do) and all of us laugh our asses off.

Later, we're sitting on the grass waiting for our respective busses to come. Stan pulls out a comic volume and I am reminded of the porn comics I was told about earlier. I inquire about this, but he shows me that he's reading Rat Queens, a different series also by Stjepan Sejic. I jokingly voice my disappointment at his current lack of illustrated pornography and he happily offers to bring them for me tomorrow. I don't think much of it when I say that sounds fantastic.

The next day my good friend Chris Pratt has a scene he's performing at lunch, so obviously I go to watch him. Who else happens to be there but Big Gay Stan! (There were lots of other people there too of course, they're just not relevant to this story.) We all say our hellos and I sit down. To my surprise Stan whips out four volumes out of his bag and hands them to me. Upon seeing their covers realization immediately dawns on me what I'm holding, and a mischievous grin spreads across my face.

I cheekily flip through one of them as he tells me I can take them home to read them. This alarms me, as I didn't even know he was going to actually bring them, never-the-less let me bring them home to read. I didn't even honestly want to read them, this whole thing was just a funny haha-reading-porn-comics-in-school joke to me. Now here we are. I obviously accepted his generous offer and have read this first volume of Sunstone.

Can't say this is something I thought I would ever read. Not just this book specifically, but erotica in general. Though I have recently been... Not really "experimenting" but something lesser than that, with sexuality. Before this time in my life I feel like I wouldn't have been able to read this at all, would have been way too squeamish. Now I just took it in stride, and am... Excited? I guess? To read the next three volumes that Stan lended me. The whole situation is just fun.

Anyway this has not really been a review so far. This series is about Lisa and Ally, two sexual nerds who meet online and then meet in person to fufil their specific desires. There's a lot of titties. I noticed they look surgically enhanced (specifically Lisa's) and I wonder if we'll ever get to find out about that. A lot of the whole naked female body, really. It was just nudity though, there was no imagery of penetration or contact with the nether-regions at all. It was still pretty spicy to me at least, but let's face it my experience with this stuff is basic at best.

Art wise, I'm temped to say that Sejic is a god. Just look at the covers. Inside there's even more paintings that are borderline photorealistic and it tingles my artistic tangles in all the right places. Though of course for the actual pannels themselves it's a lot more sketchy, but Sejic pulls it off none-the-less. I have actually been watching Sejic's main account on DeviantArt for a few years now, and didn't find out that he made comics until somewhat recently.

Would I recommend this book? I dunno. At this point of writing I still don't know what to rate it. At multiple points I felt like there was way too much build up, that these chicks just needed to friggen fuck already, so those parts were a bit too slow for my liking. There also wasn't much that happened in general. There was the aforementioned build up, then obviously they screw, then more build up until they screw again and... Yeah. Not much else happens. I feel like more has to happen in the next volumes, right? We'll see. My deadline to give these back to Stan is the day after tomorrow, so I've got some reading to do ;).


Click to read all of my Sunstone Reviews:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3 (Really short.)

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