Title: Check, Please! Media: Webcomic / Book series Approx length: Webcomic: four 'seasons' of 20-25 ten-panel comics + a few extra short comics / Book series: two books of ~300 pages with extra material (tweets from Bitty) Where to find it:Check,Please! or your book purveyor of choice! What is it, in summary? It is the story of Eric Bittle, former figure skater, hockey player, and gay Southern ray of sunshine, and his four years at queer-friendly Samwell College, where he finds a new family in a bunch of loud, boisterous frat boy hockey players, learns to accept his sexuality and his own self, and maybe even fall in love. What do you love about it? So much! The art! The awesome side characters! The grump/sunshine romance of Bitty and Jack! The way Jack's mental health issues are treated! The fact that it's a happy fluffy queer story and while there IS angst the core theme - that queer people deserve happy endings - is never lost sight of. Content warnings: Depictions of mental health issues, mainly anxiety, some minor depictions of homophobia post coming out, instance of bullying in Bitty's past and related trauma
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Check, Please!
Date: 2021-08-19 03:45 pm (UTC)Media: Webcomic / Book series
Approx length: Webcomic: four 'seasons' of 20-25 ten-panel comics + a few extra short comics / Book series: two books of ~300 pages with extra material (tweets from Bitty)
Where to find it: Check,Please! or your book purveyor of choice!
What is it, in summary? It is the story of Eric Bittle, former figure skater, hockey player, and gay Southern ray of sunshine, and his four years at queer-friendly Samwell College, where he finds a new family in a bunch of loud, boisterous frat boy hockey players, learns to accept his sexuality and his own self, and maybe even fall in love.
What do you love about it? So much! The art! The awesome side characters! The grump/sunshine romance of Bitty and Jack! The way Jack's mental health issues are treated! The fact that it's a happy fluffy queer story and while there IS angst the core theme - that queer people deserve happy endings - is never lost sight of.
Content warnings: Depictions of mental health issues, mainly anxiety, some minor depictions of homophobia post coming out, instance of bullying in Bitty's past and related trauma