Blue Monday: Lovecats

(Oni, 2002)
™ and ©2002

Chynna Clugston-Major returns with a new Blue Monday one-shot. This time Clover, Bleu, Victor, and the gang ponder whether the annual Valentine’s Day school dance is worth their trouble. And most of them end up there, despite their best efforts.

Like her two previous Blue Monday series, Clugston-Major excels at portraying the up and down, whirlwind world of high-school romances and general teen angst. Especially vivid is her characterization of Clover, an angry and cynical teen who laments having to leave her native Ireland for Nowhere, USA. Despite Clover’s unlikable nature, Clugston-Major makes the readers like her, at least a little, in the same way that her friends eventually do in the story.

All the characters are well-developed, although readers unfamiliar with the prior series would have benefited from a refresher on who’s who. Clugston-Major’s anime-style art makes some of the characters difficult to tell apart at first, but this is made up for later, as the characters become definable by their words and actions, if not their appearance. This will appeal more to a younger audience, but anyone who enjoys good characterization will enjoy it.

— Jim Johnson

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February, 2002
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