A review by indiekay
Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley

5.0

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC

This comic is lovely. The art style is really cute (it feels like the artist may have been inspired by One Piece in the way he draws faces, but it's a lovely unique style), with really lovely colour work. The story also flips between the main story, told in full colour, and a manga the girls are reading, which is black and white, and that style switch is a really nice touch.

The story is great -- two girls moving to a new school, one battling with grief over her mother and in a long-distance relationship with a controlling biphobic dickhead, and the other jaded with how the world treats her because of her disability. I really liked both characters a lot.

My one complaint with the book is that the test is pretty small and it does that horrible thing Western comics do where every third word is in bold italics and you get really bad eye strain because you keep having to emphasis random words in your head. Like, enough, please. It didn't happen much in the first half of the book (I'd have DNFd it if it had), but suddenly 60% through it's like they realised they weren't hitting their bold italics quota.