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I totally agree on this. I would love to watch the main love interest to learn more about BDSM and maybe that twisted mind of his is a sign of being kind of a Dom or smth. It bothered him this much and we never learn to know how he actually copes with it at the end.
BTW, did we ever learn what his name is?
you encapsulated all my thoughts on this perfectly, even our rating is the same ong
Where do I even begin? The first 25 chapters or so of this comic are the most boring, paint-by-numbers, "I've read this 3 other times in 3 other comics" sort of plot/premise with stereotypical leads that I almost gave up on it before the comic just completely jumps the shark.
But then at this point, we start getting some insight into the backstories of the characters, the introduction of a major side character with so much mystery surrounding him and his past relationships with the other characters, that the whole plot just breaks loose. The tension ratchets up to 11, the pace picks up and suddenly you're wondering who is what and if you misread/misinterpreted all of the previous chapters with backstory between the leads. You start to question if any of these guys can be called a reliable narrator or not, including Sodam.
Both of the love interests act like total aholes to the main character at various times, a lot of the lazy, paint-by-numbers aspect of the first 1/3 of the comic is suddenly put into a different light and you realize that there was a reason things happened that way. You go back and forth between hating/liking each love interest and at points hating both of them and then wondering if it wouldn't just be better for Sodam to just go it alone and let these two psychos burn themselves to the ground.
I would say if you can manage to get to the halfway point of the story and it hasn't pulled you in by then, you'll probably never like it, but it is also a lot to ask of a reader to get through nearly half of the story before it 'gets good'.
Anyway, I didn't particularly love this comic but it was interesting enough after a certain point that I definitely wouldn't call it bad. You can tell the author did a lot planning for this story because there are many things set up early on that you totally don't recognize as a setup until the end of the story. And honestly most gripes that a reader might have were addressed by the author at least somewhere (several were addressed inadequately IMO, but they were at least acknowledged and addressed). In the end I consider this a 3.5/5, which isn't a great rating, but I am still glad I read this because it certainly gave my brain a lot to think about by the end.