I've finally been rereading it and I'm really glad I am because I love it. How well known is it these days, anyway? It hasn't updated regularly in like eight years, and I haven't heard much talk about it during that time. http://www.venusenvycomic.com/index.php
i remember trying to read it way back when and just not being able to because it hit way too close to home.
I've read it, and it was pretty helpful in getting inside the heads of binary trans people, which I really didn't know much about at the time.
God, I remember reading it back in the day and losing track of it part-way through the arc where the protag was starting to date the school's resident bad boy. Mostly I remember being really, really annoyed at the protag's first friend when it came to romantic stuff, because she kept insisting that the protag had to be Honest about who she was...while refusing to take into account that, uh, this was just a little bit more dangerous for a trans woman than for a lesbian woman and also blackmailing her with the threat of "if you aren't honest about it with your romantic partners, I'll tell them myself". Which, granted, this was the result of the friend having trauma over hazing she went through after coming out as a lesbian, and thinking that protag was fucking with her on their first (and only) date. But I was still Not Pleased with it, and had a vague dislike for the character that's apparently persisted right through to today.
IIRC she stopped doing that completely when she apologized and they became actual friends. Of course, it was still plenty shitty while it was going on, so I do understand continuing to hold it against her. But it seems like an important detail.
Oh, it is. It's just not one that I remembered, since it has been a long time since I read the comic and I stopped after I lost the bookmark to it after a computer move, around when the protag was just starting to date the school's bad boy.
