But I’m so unused to queer characters in a book for young people that I could hardly believe what I was reading. It’s not treated any differently than any other romance in the text. This is an all-ages comic with a girl who likes girls at the centre of it! She meets Diane and is immediately enamored with this girl rocking the James Dean look. The plot lost me a for a little while, just because I was expecting it to be aimed at a younger audience and wasn’t thinking about it having any sort of political aspect.īut, of course, what stuck with me was the queer content. The colours are vibrant, and the character designs are distinctive and engaging, and the cast is diverse. I think it’s because teenagers are usually drawn in comics as if they were twenty-somethings, so I assumed that this teenager was a preteen. I shouldn’t have been: she acts as a valet, so she’s clearly old enough to drive. Goldie works at a hotel with her father, but she also attempts to act as a detective on the side.įor some reason, I kept being surprised that the main character of this is a teenager. It also gave me hints of Veronia Mars, but that may just be because I haven’t been exposed to many girl detective characters. Goldie Vance is an all-ages comic that has been described as Lumberjanes meets Nancy Drew, which I think is a pretty solid assessment. Aahh, it’s been a long time since I’ve read a book with surprise queer content.
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