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A review by tangleroot_eli
Bite Me! a Vampire Farce by Dylan Meconis
3.0
If the western world is divisible into vampire people and werewolf people (and it is), I am firmly in the werewolf camp. So a graphic novel about vampires was never going to be entirely up my alley.
Meconis started Bite Me! in her senior year of high school, and it shows, especially in the humor. A trans "joke" that probably seemed hilarious at the time falls uncomfortably flat now, and the humor often felt forced, less "organically emerging from the situation" and more "must insert punchline here."
Still, Claire is the most delightfully unpretentious vampire character I've ever encountered, and the solid-if-farcical grounding in the French Revolution elevates this above the bulk of vampire fiction I've encountered. For sure read the 13th anniversary edition if you can; Meconis' footnotes on her art and thought processes while creating the comic are often the most entertaining things on the page.
Meconis started Bite Me! in her senior year of high school, and it shows, especially in the humor. A trans "joke" that probably seemed hilarious at the time falls uncomfortably flat now, and the humor often felt forced, less "organically emerging from the situation" and more "must insert punchline here."
Still, Claire is the most delightfully unpretentious vampire character I've ever encountered, and the solid-if-farcical grounding in the French Revolution elevates this above the bulk of vampire fiction I've encountered. For sure read the 13th anniversary edition if you can; Meconis' footnotes on her art and thought processes while creating the comic are often the most entertaining things on the page.