A review by mschlat
Our Expanding Universe by Alex Robinson

3.0

I loved Robinson's [b:Box Office Poison|106837|Box Office Poison|Alex Robinson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327892079s/106837.jpg|102976] and thought his graphic novel [b:Tricked|106843|Tricked|Alex Robinson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347400465s/106843.jpg|102982] was excellent. However, I found his more recent work [b:Too Cool to Be Forgotten|2396554|Too Cool to Be Forgotten|Alex Robinson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347454313s/2396554.jpg|2403572] to be pretty meh. This work is somewhere in the middle. It's got a great ensemble cast like Box Office Poison and an interesting cosmic montage near the end like Tricked, but with a focus on families and the choice of whether or not to have kids. We follow three male friends --- one with a kid and another on the way, one trying to have a kid but somewhat ambivalent about it, and one single guy who's frustrated that his friends are disappearing into families. True to Robinson's earlier works, you see everything from a ton of perspectives, and I love his cartoony art style matched to realistic dialogue. I found it a fun read, but I wasn't sure what to make of our main protagonist (the soon-to-be father) or his naiveté. There's not really a sense of closure (which may be the point), and a day after finishing the book I needed to check it again to see what the ending was.