Lil Depressed Boy #2 – Review

By: S. Steven Struble (writer, colors, letters), Sina Grace (art), Nicholas Brandy (edits) & Zachary Trover (design)

The Story: Have you ever forgotten someone’s name and then gotten past the point where you can politely ask them, “What’s your name?”

What’s Good: What a cute and fun comic!  If you’ve ever looked at a big pile of gritty comics in your “stack” and sighed a little bit because it would be nice to have a fresh and clean comic to chase all that drug addiction, grittiness, violence and vomiting into each other’s mouths (PunisherMax reference)… This is the comic for you.  Lil Depressed Boy (LDB) follows a nameless ~20 something directionless guy.  He’s not a loser or anything so morose. He just doesn’t have a ton to distinguish him from the crowd.  He’s just kinda there.  In the last issue, we saw LDB meet a really cute geek-girl who really took a liking to LDB.

What’s great about LDB is that the creators take a common, every-day circumstance that everyone can identify with like forgetting someone’s name and expressing that circumstance through this LDB character.  As you can tell from the lead in, this issue revolves around the fact that LDB has met this great girl and been on a few kinda-dates, but… He can’t remember what her name is.  He’d ask, but he’s way past the point where he can do so politely because he’d be admitting that he didn’t know her name the whole time.  So, he and his buddy engage in a series of comical attempts to figure out what her name is before LDB gets put on the spot.  Even if it is just a conversation at a cocktail party, hasn’t everyone been in this circumstance where you can’t remember someone’s name?