Neil Gaiman made me do it! When I saw Mr. Gaiman’s name on the cover, I picked Husbands up. After reading his introduction, it went straight in the basket. What can I say? The man rules me. Plus the cutie on the cover didn’t hurt. :D A magical wedding gift sends newlyweds Brady and Cheeks spinning off into a comic book world tour of genres. Each chapter presents a new look and style of art with obstacles, dilemmas, and forces of evil to conquer. From the outer galaxies to the halls of high schoo...

I loved this. It made me really want to watch the web series. I loved how each story had the characters facing a relationship issue really in a different way. All the scenarios were so fantastic too. Loved the style changes in each one. This was light and enjoyable.

I discovered this comic in my hoopla account because I wanted to read some genre of boys love comic or should I say, men's love. Mainly, randomly searching in the comics section.I really enjoyed reading this comic and at first, I thought it would start out exactly like the two meet and the journey they went through as a couple. I didn't realize that it was an actual Sitcom series until I read all the way to the end. Reading this comic has made me want to check out the series.I believed that it (...

A pair of newly-wed dudes are lounging about their honeymoon suite with their blonde female friend, opening their wedding gifts. One of their presents is a magic book that sucks them into it. Unfazed, they have several adventures in different genres: superhero, fantasy, detective, sci-fi, Archie, and Bond. And that’s it – they exit the book unperturbed. Whuh? Apparently Husbands is a web series and this is a spinoff comic by its creators Brad Bell and Jane Espenson. Is this what happens in the s...

I had high hopes for this graphic novel but the writing just wasn’t there for me and the plot didn’t flow well. The story begins when newlyweds Brady and Cheeks are opening their wedding gifts and they get pulled into their very own comic book. They face six different obstacles in which they have to work together in spite of their differences. Each problem situation is written/ illustrated in a different genre: fantasy, mystery, sci-fi, detective novel, etc. While the illustrations were great, t...

Husbands4/5 starsThis was adorable, gorgeously drawn, and one of my favorite tropes of where two people can be in a different world or a different time but they will still find their way to each other and a way to be together. And each of the challenges they faced was like a metaphor for an obstacle in a relationship it was just so cute.I thought that the Characters were cute and I routed for them every time, but they didn't really get fleshed out or put depth and I think that's just because thi...

Husbands is a beautiful trade collecting the six book run of the comic of the same name. The art is gorgeous, particularly the character designs in "Nocte Machinas" and the dead on Archie parody of "Arch Nemesis". I wasn't familiar with the sitcom prior to being accepted for this ARC, but luckily the story takes place in an AU where Cheeks and Brady, a pair of tabloid darlings who got married in Vegas, are transported to different traditional comic settings to learn morals on relationships and m...

3.5/5 stars.Comic books/graphic novels aren't generally my preferred medium, but I loved the Husbands webseries and bought this as a result. This was charming and a very quick read. The text is structured as a series of adventures, in which the eponymous husbands star; each adventure is a different, classic type of comic. The overall narrative is strung together through some very meta hand-waving. I've no real complaints about the text. The story/stories are cute, the art similarly so, and there...

I preordered the hardback edition of all the stories but just found out I can buy the individual issues on my iPad Darkhorse app. So I had to buy them since I can't wait to read these. Issue One: Drawn In: OMG! So cute. So funny. Love these two guys. I wasn't sure what to except with this series but this was great. It was different than the YouTube hit show but kept all of the charm and wit you except from these guys. Wonderfully done. Issue Two: The Well-Intentioned-But-Oblivious Prince And The...

I went into Husbands not knowing about the webseries. I had requested it from Netgalley because I saw that Jane Espenson was a main writer and that had me all giddy for the possibility of awesome humor. After reading it I can safely say that I am definitely going to check out the webseries. In Husbands we follow newlyweds, Cheeks and Brady, as they travel through different scenarios to learn relationship lessons. They go through multiple story settings, including superheroes and villains, Bond s...

I didn't realise when I bought this that it was related to a web series (which I haven't seen), so it kind of sat on my shelf for a while until I finally got around to picking it back up.It's a cute set of stories, all "what ifs" for the two main characters and their female friend.Each of the stories has it's charms, but I think the medieval fantasy one and the space warriors one are probably my favourites. The story just ends... which is a little bit abrupt and sort of just deflates the whole t...

When marriage equality became the law of the land in the United States in 2015, a lot of (unfortunately, over-idealistic) folks thought that it would be the final hurdle that would lead to full LGBTQ+ acceptance in the country. While it's not the case, Husbands provides at least 100 or so pages worth of what a world where queer identities are normalized looks like -- all with a little bit of interdimensional travel thrown in.I'm not here to say that this graphic novel is ground-breaking or revol...

Cuuuuute. I can think of a couple grounds to critique this on but honestly? It is literally six interconnected AUs of fluffy fanfic. My head was killing me yesterday, mentally non-taxing fluff was exactly what I needed (why were you reading when your head was at the point where bright lights made you hiss away like a vampire? Because I was about to crawl out of my skin with boredom Judgement Joe; this was the healthiest alternative I could think of. Some of us are not blessed with a body capable...

A cool bunch of short stories featuring a newly married gay couple. Each represents a different facet of their relationship and takes on different genres as well as art styles.I'm not familiar with the web series, but I found the book did a good job of introducing these characters and throwing them into various scenarios. I liked that it was played relatively straight storywise. I always like when a male/male romance is treated as a regular, normal occurrence.I'm glad my local comic-book store h...

I found this in a collection, and wondered why I hadn't heard of it before, as it came out while I was working in a store that sold a wide variety of queer graphic novels. It's co-written by someone who wrote Buffy The Vampire Slayer, it has an introduction by Neil Gaiman. How did it slip through the cracks?It's awful.While I understand from the back of the book that this is the continuation of a sitcom that I'd never heard of that has a dodgy but maybe endearing premise, this graphic novel is j...

I thought that this was hilarious and it was my first completed read for #diversathon. It isn't a set plot line except that two husbands are transported to different worlds after their wedding. It's funny because they don't remember their past but in each world they fall in love all over again and I think that's what makes it beautiful. No matter what happened they always found their way back to each other. Gahhhhh just beautiful haha.

The story was super cute and fun to read but it was also kinda campy.

It's fun and cute. A good PRIDE read

Beautiful trade edition of the six-issue series. Part of its charm is the subversion of traditional comics - the Archie satire is spot on both in tone and visuals. When I first read the comics as they came out I was a bit disappointed that these aren't really the characters as we 'know' them in the series - I would rather have had a continuation of their own stories - but now that I know there's a third season on the way I can appreciate the comics a bit more for the way they play with the chara...

According to the receipt I left inside, I bought this on January 10, 2015, such a dramatically different time in myriad ways. I finally got around to reading it tonight, and it was a DELIGHT. I'm glad I can revisit it whenever--good call, 2015 Me! I also "binged" the whole first season of the webseries (quotation marks because it's very short), and I'll be watching the second and third seasons tomorrow for sure. Clever, queer satire with heart. INTO IT. 👨‍❤️‍👨