My mainstream comic of the month, my enjoying/boring relationship with the series continues.

On the plus side, Jesse and Tulip continue to be so gosh darn cute and I have a soft-spot a couple miles wide for masculine dudes being vulnerable and shit.

On the negative side, Ennis (not Jesse) continues to have (at this point in time) very negative feelings about anything sexual beyond the missionary position. This volume also veers back into the heavily religious territory, which I swear would not be a problem for me except that Ennis seems to not know nearly enough about the Catholic church to actually offer an edgy critique of the institution. Of course, Ennis' massive hardon for all things AM'RICAN falls equally flat due to lack of practical knowledge. I know nothing about Irish liberation so Cass' drawn out exposition dump of a back story may be equally full of shit.

May this series be a lesson to us all that using sex, language and violence as your major selling points does not age well.

I really really really enjoy the Jesse and Tulip sections though. Watching a old school dude working out his feelings about an empowered older woman really wouldn't make such a bad comic if all this other shit didn't keep getting in the way.