We Can Still Be Friends back

BEACH SAFARI was the other Mawil comic we've had in, which Tom reviewed favourably in 2003. This is a very different bunny, being a catalogue of unrequited love stories told by the creator to his (sometimes!) sympathetic mates.

Jeffrey Brown writes, "If only Mawil was as good with the girls as he is a cartoonist, then we wouldn't have these fun stories about how he isn't good with the girls." But he's not, so we do.

I don't know whether you can relate to this, but Mawil isn't one to get his hopes up. Quite the reverse: it doesn't matter how many of "the signs" are there, he won't delude himself that any given girl truly has the hots for him. In fact it's only when his friends make encouraging noises that he reluctantly, hesitantly, perhaps comes to believe that maybe there's some hope that this one new girl finally feels the same way about him as he does about her. Will she? Will Mawil's devoted optimism ever be rewarded, or will she sweetly and tenderly but ultimately and crushingly say that she simply doesn't feel that way about him? "We can still be friends, right?" Right. Except I'm too embarrassed to ever want to see you again.

Ring true? Find some solace here!