Awwwwww I’m so sorry I have to come chop all your fingers off if you gave this book less than five stars :{ :{ :{Jk you deserve it you damn monster This book is perfect! Perfecto. Le perfecto. Truly I am dazzled charmed and wowed.

Well, yeah. I am the proverbial choir.This is a collection of five stories created by Nowak. All of them feature youngish queerish singleish femmeish characters I can relate to very easily. There's a lot of snark, of edge. A fair amount of cussing, some nakedness.Each story is basically set in our reality, but they all have different twists. For example, the first story starts "I have lived with Ashley and Jolene since we all got kicked out of astronaut school for being too good-looking to be se...

What a weird and wonderful book. This a collection of comic short stories, which differ in characters and style, but have a similar vibe of women’s complicated relationships with each other, and a general sense of unease and yearning. With beginning lines like “I have lived with Ashley and Jolene since we all got kicked out of astronaut school for being too good-looking to be sent to space,” Girl Town wastes no time in introducing you to a world that’s one step out of sync with our own, while st...

This was so bizarre and boring and I just kind of hated it. The robot boyfriend story was almost redeeming enough for 2 stars... almost.

Want to see more bookish things from me? Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfer...1.5/5 Stars This is a collection of short comics following a group of girls. I don't even know how to give this book a synopsis because I am so confused with what was happening. All the stories just felt unfinished and all over the place... Not a fan.

I don't read a lot of sequential art fiction, maybe a half dozen a year. Honestly, I want to be blown away but I'm usually left feeling a little disappointed. Not so here. Girl Town is brillant!I have a general boycott in place on any book that refers to women as "girls" in the title but after looking at the sample on Amazon I knew I would be making an exception. If I could give this book 10 Stars, I would.

6/28/21: Reread in conjunction with YA girls comics class, in conjunction with work such as Girl in the World by Caroline Cash, Girls and Magical Beatdown by Jenn Woodall).A collection of mini-comics from Ann Arbor cartoonist Carolyn Nowak, and from the title you might (correctly) guess that it is woman-centric, women of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Like that cover, with the intriguingly angry woman coming out of he sewer? Nowak’s trying a variety of things. “Radishes” features two friends who...

This was just a little too weird for my tastes 😕 womp.

This is a clever collection of comics by Carolyn Nowark. Because each of the stories has an element of fantasy, the reader can never be sure what will happen next. My two favorite stories in this collection were "Diana's Electric Tongue," which is about a woman who orders a male robot as a companion, and "Radishes," which follows two young women who visit a magical river market.A few of the pieces were uneven, but overall I liked this anthology of Nowark's work and look forward to reading more f...

Nowak is a talent to watch, even if this book was a little disappointing for me. Though there were many interesting moments and characters, the short stories collected here didn't feel complete or satisfying. I think I would have enjoyed them more as middle chapters of longer works.

A small collection of graphic short stories, each featuring young women just being young women. As usual for anthologies, it's a mixed bag.Girl Town--A meandering series of unremarkable, uninteresting occurrences. It starts nowhere, pauses after nothing happens for a while, and then fails to pick up where it left off. I almost wrote the book off after reading this. 1 star.Radishes--Two friends play hooky to explore a boardwalk and find a magic snack stand. Each food does something minorly amazin...

AS ALWAYS, how do you rate an anthology?! I loved two of the stories, loved to bits and think the collection is totally worth picking up just for those two stories (Radishes and Diana's Electric Tongue) but I felt very luke warm about the other 3 stories (which as it worked out were the shortest). Will absolutely be picking up more stuff from Carolyn Nowak!!

Worth it, even if only for the robot boyfriend sketch<3

Oh, like I'd be able to resist a cover featuring a gal wearing only a shirt and panties climbing out of the sewer . . . or is she climbing into the sewer? I had to know. Unfortunately, you don't find out within the pages of this book. But, I still enjoyed it. Likable characters, and stories with just the right amount of quirkiness - made my heart go zing. The award-winning tales, Radishes and Diana's Electric Tongue were undoubtedly the best of the bunch, though I was also pretty fond of the tit...

In addition to the usual blurbs from critics and fellow cartoonists, the inside cover of this book features praise from short story master Kelly Link. Once you read the comics here, you'll understand why. Nowak shares Link's knack for stories that exist in slightly askew versions of our world (note how the fashion and technology in these comics look just a little bit different than you'd expect). She also shares Link's knack for compelling characters and ambiguous endings. Nowak's comics lure yo...

A strange and delightful queer feminist collection of comics short stories. The titular/1st story was actually my least favourite, so I'm glad I kept reading after that. Two girls go to a fantasy market and find mysterious food allowing them to truly look at themselves. A woman sad about a breakup buys a robot boyfriend. Two friends discuss via podcast a cult 90s movie of which they have possibly the only copy of. Authentic, complex portraits of women.

If I could give this six stars I would. I love Carolyn Nowak’s comics so much.

We read a collection of short stories where nothing really happen 🤔 Some of this stories felt unfinished, two of them I really liked!!! I wanted to love it but it was too weird for my tastes... ☹️

2018: It's like a small collection of short stories where nothing really happens but in a nice way. The art is really nice and it's quite possible she intentionally referenced the painting/meme "Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind" in the cover art. I skipped the podcast story cause there were too many words. But I really liked that a lot of the time they were really normal settings but kind of unusual and a little bit sci-fi or something, but not in a way that was central to the story...

2.5. Missed opportunity in my opinion. Art was cool but stories were vitriolic and often times essentially pointless... lots of various representation in the art depictions though, hence the round up.