Friends With Boys

I liked the teenage characters in this, they were very authentic, but the ghost story still makes me wonder what it was about. Liked it overall, and I want to read more of the author's book. I have Pumpkinheads right here in my to-read pile.

I'm trying to read more comics, graphic novels and basically anything with pictures in it. Sometimes it's kinda overwhelming for me to see a lot of pictures in just one page, but definitely I loved this book so much that I read it twice in the same day.

This book deals with some real sad situations but it is treated with humor. I found myself laughing out loud because it was really really sweet and funny. The characters were well developed and I couldn't resist but loving each one of them. Also, I loved the ghost. She was really nice and quirky until the end -which I liked a lot.

The art was incredible! I wish I could do some fan art for this book but I'm afraid my drawing is terrible... Anyway, I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good story with beautiful illustrations. Please, READ IT!

I'm glad this author has more books and I'm definitely checking them out! I have the feeling that I have a new favorite author! :)

I won this book through GoodReads and I thank to the publisher for providing me this copy but this fact didn't influence the review.

going to highschool for the first time is scary - especially if you've been homeschooled and surrounded by three brothers all your life. but then also ghost hauntings! (I want to be the girl with the mohawk, always)

I love Faith Erin Hicks so much. Her art is amazing and her stories are always full of such heart. I related to this lead so much, being that I was also a homeschooled girl with three older brothers, and the story had me right away. My only complaint? I really wanted more out of the ending. SO MUCH MORE. Sequel? Please?

I liked this one. Plot-wise there's not much going on and everything kind of finishes slightly unresolved, but the art is great and feels really familiar to me even though I don't think I've seen Hick's work before.

It's a great book for teens, about being different and accepting change, all that badness that you deal with in your teenage years. I really did enjoy it and was kind of sad it went by so fast!

The art is very nice, I would read anything if was illustrated by her. But the story flows awkwardly and ends like they were running out of pages and had to wrap it up fast. And then there were a few things that were never really explained. It felt like the graphic novel equivalent of Lost, more questions than answers. Still, all in all, an okay read, nice to look at at, and I would recommend it to my friends.

I assumed this was some kind of high school romantic comedy, but it's more like a ghost story?? HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS WAS A GHOST STORY? I would have read this way sooner if I'd known it was a ghost story.

Now that I think about it... why was it a ghost story?? Like, at first I assumed it was something to do with her missing mom, but then it seemed like all of her brothers also saw the ghost, just like, cuz?? I really liked the ghost story as it was happening, but now that I'm thinking about it... whaaat?

I know this was originally a webcomic. Is this ALL of the webcomic? It almost seemed like the end of this book was the point where it got really interesting to me. IDK.

It was a fun high school/family ghost story! Would recommend to teen fans of, oh, maybe like the Ghost and the Goth books or Dead is the New Black? But it's not exactly a mystery... or it kind of is? Uh... IDK. The art was really cute and I think Maggie was a cool protagonist. And I liked the ghost.

I discovered Friends With Boys online one day, shortly after Faith Erin Hicks started posting the pages to her website in webcomic form as a promotion for the upcoming print release. It quickly became one of my favourite comics, and I made sure to pre-order the print copy, knowing I wanted to have it in my personal library (particularly since after the end of February 2012 only the first sixteen pages of the book will be available for viewing online).

The print version is lovely. It is more or less trade paper size, so it sits very nicely in hand, and I love the cover flap detailing that creates the sense of it having a dust jacket. My only real complaint is a minor one: as with many, many other graphic novels, Friends With Boys has a few points where the edges of some of the panels get a bit lost in the spine of the book. It comes with the nature of the print medium, and there really is not any way to “fix” it and maintain the integrity of the art.

Bottom line: If you enjoy fun characters and slice-of-life type stories (with or without supernatural twists) definitely check this comic out.

Nicely done tale of growing up, and being true to yourself. A bit of spookiness thrown in with a ghost that felt a bit out of place but that doesn't detract from the charming characters.

Can I please proclaim my love for Friends With Boys? It has been a long while since I had the pleasure of diving into a graphic novel, and so I'm happy to say that Faith Erin Hicks satisfied my every bookish need. What you'll find between these pages is the perfect mixture of sweet, spooky, and downright funny. New to the world of graphic novels? This is a great place to start!

What impressed me most about this story was the characters. They easily steal the show. Faith Erin Hicks brings to life a quirky family who I would be happy to meet in real life. Maggie is the youngest of four and all her siblings are, you guessed it, boys! Maggie's character is sweet and shy. Her brothers are all kind, boisterous characters who shine off the page. Their love for one another is evident, even as they have their normal sibling rivalries. Lucy and her brother Alistair are also deliciously different and realistic. There isn't a single character who outshines the others, and I adored that fact.

Faith Erin Hicks shows her prowess at creating emotion without words in Friends With Boys. With the use of gorgeously rendered facial expressions, Hicks allows the reader a glimpse at Maggie's emotions without blatantly spelling them out. This also allows the chance for a lot of open ended situations! There is a lot in this story that can be interpreted many different ways. I'm anxious to see if this will be a series, in huge part because there is so much that I still want to know.

There is a very mild supernatural element to this story. Mild enough that it doesn't overpower the story, but still present enough that it gives it a nice twist. If you are not one to read paranormal, fret not! The story line of this graphic novel contains much more than ghost stories. Friends With Boys is about growing up, finding out who you really want to be, and also the power of a loving family. In fact, there is so much to love here that I devoured this graphic novel in a mere half hour! Let's be honest, it's that good.

My one gripe? The ending! Ah. I won't spoil, but it definitely leaves a lot of things unanswered, which made me chomp at the bit for more. I'm in for the long haul. Maggie and her crew are welcome on my reading list any time!