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nannersreads's review
5.0
"Time moves in one direction and love stands still." I'm not crying. You're crying.
weweresotired's review
3.0
This was fine, although shows the inherent limitations in the graphic novel as a format, as I think this would have been much better served by a longer adaptation. We know Sam and Philip love each other because we are told they love each other, but there is so little development of their relationship and they often don't even seem to like each other, to the point where it's hard to see why they'd each be risking their own safety/lives for the other. The art is fine, and I liked the time period of just pre- and post-WWII, time periods that I don't feel like get as much attention in media as the actual wartime period. I just wanted more story/development than I got.
reading_rainbow_rachel's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
5.0
A brilliant way to marry the worlds of historical fiction writing and comic book art to tell a story of hope and heartbreak. With amazing art style, fantastic coloring, Lockard & Fish tell the initiate story of a couple falling in love in a time where world history stood at the precipice of disaster. While the story may have been a fictional one, Lockard & Fish were able to pack a punch about a humanitarian devastation to a less discussed marginalized group. They were able to remind us that we must hold our history close to our hearts to remember the past, appreciate the strides made in our present, but to do our best to prevent such humanitarian disasters from happening again. This short story comic left me both heartbroken but hope which is more than I could ask for from any writing.
chaosweib's review
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Very hear breaking but worthwhile and important read.
alreadspurpleprose's review
4.0
Picked up in the kindle store as included in my amazon prime membership.
Liebestrasse is a one-off graphic novel about an American and German who fall in love in Berlin during the lead up to WW2. Nice art-work and simple yet sad story. Not a particularly original tale but always a needed one, to shine light on the brutality of the Nazis against all 'groups' they opposed. A reminder of what queer people faced and still face in parts of the world today. Last line made my heart wrench.
Liebestrasse is a one-off graphic novel about an American and German who fall in love in Berlin during the lead up to WW2. Nice art-work and simple yet sad story. Not a particularly original tale but always a needed one, to shine light on the brutality of the Nazis against all 'groups' they opposed. A reminder of what queer people faced and still face in parts of the world today. Last line made my heart wrench.
periodic0's review
3.0
A bittersweet stroy about gay love in Nazi Germany. It has a decent storical rigour and a good way to get your mom to buy you LGBT things for historical "reserch"
njh_books's review
3.0
I really wanted to get into this, but it always seemed to hold the reader at arm's length away. Never really learned why Sam and Philip liked each other so much--needed a bit more of the one-on-one intimacy. Did enjoy the scenes with Philip's sister.
The artwork for the scenes in the countryside, Alps, and at the lake were gorgeous.
Philip's arrest and disappearance left a lot to be desired. We just lose him from the story, then Sam leaves Berlin, and then it's the frame narrative again in 1952. While people were taken and vanished during this time period, in some way it feels a disservice to their story to not even say if they found anything out about what happened. All we get is Hilde saying, "But I am grateful that if he died among all the terrible deaths...he died knowing love." Also RIP Bernhard getting shot and then never mentioned again.
In the back, in the "Creating Liebestrasse" section, Greg Lockard states "We knew we wanted to tell a love story set in that unimaginably horrible time of Hitler's rise to power. Previous representations of gay/queer life in Berlin have been somewhat chaste in their presentations--we wanted a love story that showed two men truly in love." While I do think there are some scenes that do provide a glimpse of the love and intimacy between the two in a way I haven't seen as often in comics (Philip sitting on the couch and comforting Sam who sits on the floor between his legs), I don't think it completely reaches its goal. But perhaps that is also because we all have different understandings of what love is, how it is expressed, and what it means... </spoilerer>