laurenash's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't realize it was part of a series (I know...) so I'll have to go back and read the others. The art/story was simple but it still had heart. And it was definitely sad/bittersweet in certain places, but such is life.
clonie's review against another edition
4.0
One of the better relationship memoirs from Jeffery Brown.
rudy3o0ok's review against another edition
4.0
Yeah, living through this relationship in real life was quite the rollercoaster. Re-living it through this book made me miss those + and - times. As odd as that is.
eberico's review against another edition
4.0
Read this several years ago and remember it really affecting me in the way that Jeffrey Brown's books always do.
abbeyjfox's review against another edition
5.0
heartbreakingly awesome. here's to reading comics that freakishly relate to your life. kisses to jeffrey brown! he rules!
thecommonswings's review against another edition
5.0
Messier and sadder and more emotionally fraught than Clumsy, AEIOU feels like Brown throwing a relationship to the ground and trying to rebuild as much of it from memory as he can like a mosaic where many of the pieces are lost. The real power is between the sequences where stuff you can’t fully understand obviously is happening. Messy and melancholy and beautiful and tender but also with an air of confusion and loss that’s new to these books. Horribly beautiful
lmatakas's review against another edition
3.0
I think I'd give it three and a half stars if we could--initial reaction is that it was super contradictory. Pieces of it were subtle and sweet, but pieces were just heavy handed and tried a little too hard to make you "think" or whatever. The whole book did have one thing connecting it: you could feel Brown's self involvement/pretension oozing off each page, which didn't help the panels that needed a little softening. I do think that Brown does a good job in touching on the intricacies of relationships at times, especially the difficulty and work that goes into them, but I felt like this was a White Male Fuck Up (Graphic) Novel to the extreme; lots of "woah is me, I am such a fuck up" airs without enough "we didn't fit together" to balance it.
jsjammersmith's review against another edition
5.0
Sweet and heartbreaking and beautiful and simple and complicated and just a damn joy to read. Jeffrey Brown breathes so much of his humanity into his comics.