This was not my type of comedy or my type of art. For starters the words were sometimes so mushed or hastily done that they were hard to read. The it was just another collection of strips meant to be the funny life of someone with anxiety, but It just wasn’t for me. Everything was colorful but the way the lines in the illustrations varied between thick and thin, the colors not staying in lines, etc, this book did everything it could to make you think the character was the one writing (which is probably was), and it looks a mess. And I don’t mean a Bridget Jones mess, where you see the mess but love the person because of it. More like Spike from Notting Hill where it's kind of gross, wants to be funny, but is just a big turn off.

This artist is obsessed with butts and animals. She likes combining human anatomy with animals. Her comics are random. Sometimes funny but I don't like most of it. I like the shorthand drawings with detailed serious look. I also like the "amphibian culture."

Since it’s a collection, there are different sections, some better than others. They shall be named: Megan, shark, lady, and dance party.
Obviously Megan is the first, which serves as a good intro for the kind of humor in this book. One of my favorite lines was, “Interrupt me again and I will leave you at the nearest Scientology center!” Another good one is “He’s a Man’s man!” Some of the jokes don’t work, some are too meta, but for the most part this is an entertaining collection. The best jokes are probably the most ridiculous ones.
BUT. . .
It’s bad enough that Megan has the cat from hell—oh, wait, that’s all of them—but she keeps a cat while being ALLERGIC to them? See that flying out the window? That’s any sympathy I might have had.
I didn’t find the shark section funny at all. The only one where I nodded had to do with dogs and babies. Oh well, guess I can’t make a “jumping the shark” remark there.
On to the lady section. The “vertical mermaid” is going to give me nightmares. When someone likes you because you’re “real,” don’t ask them what they mean.
Even the finale dance party gets meta.
I wish I could give it a higher grade, because I did enjoy parts, but there were other sections that I would have skipped over had I known how much I wouldn’t like them. Oh well.

This is a collection of weird, wonderful and eccentric panel strips. 

The book is split up into chapters, including Bruce the Sketchshark and his shenanigans, 'Just Ladythings' which includes a hilarious theme of ways in which men can be fooled by makeup, and an oddly touching story of racism and bigotry as told by a cartoon toad.

The humour was a bit hit and miss for me, but there were some real gems!

I have so many questions and none of them make sense. This is, hands down, the strangest thing that has happened to me this year. And it's been a strange year, folks.

An eclectic mix of characters and themes and some really, really strange stuff keeps this fresh for the duration of the book, which sometimes seems to be a problem for this type of graphic novel (Think Sarah's Scribbles, Hyperbole and a Half) - but there was definitely not enough shark. I went in thinking it would be mostly Bruce the shark, but there is not enough shark. The weird makes up for it though. Just about.

I follow Megan Dong on IG and her illustrations/commentary always light up my feed.

I giggled and snorted through every panel of "men being fooled by makeup".

I root for Kevin to make it in Hollywood.

I read and re-read the simple boxes of illustration, which is as good as it can get with a comic. Were these in print in the paper, my fridge would be littered with every other day's strip cut and taped up.

More Malarky!

I kind of thought this was mainly going to be shark comics? Or possibly hold some type of story format but it was pretty much an explosion of random assorted short comics/scribbles/thoughts which let me say surprisingly worked for me. It took a second for me to adjust because it was a lot at first but they were all so quirky and out there that I deeply enjoyed them. You get to kind of go somewhere else for a while and totally dissolve into the book - and Megan Nicole Dong is extremely relatable in an almost eerie way. She definitely gets it. while still maintaining her own identity strongly.

Needless to say, cute little book of comics!

This was weird and amazing. I really enjoyed reading it. I laughed a lot. I am a new fan of Sharky Malarkey.

This is a illustrated book with a shark as it's protagonist. Apart from this, there are also girly comics that one can relate to and general life situations especially talking about introverts and such.
Some of the illustrations are nice and relatable, but generally it wasn't a very appealing read to me. It was way too colourful! A bit too crowded and had one too many things to say!
Having said that, I think the only saving grace was the shark bit.
Overall, not the best of the illustrated books that I've read in a while! And I usually find them to be a great way to break away from traditional reading. But not this one. It was a burden to my eyes and mind.

This book made me laugh aloud in an airplane. I had to stop reading it because it was late, people were sleeping, and I was guffawing. I picked it up again at my neighbor’s house and interrupted everyone by sharing the hilarious panels. I loved it!

Bonkers. Some might say in a good way, but I'm not convinced. One and a half stars. Bonkers. Some might say in a good way, but I'm not convinced. One and a half stars.

Such an awesome read. I spent one hour reading this literally laughing out loud and continuously sharing with my sister.

Maybe I'm just getting too old and disillusioned, but this sucked and tried to hard.

Does anyone remember Cow and Chicken? I am Weasel? You know, those really funny cartoons us millennials grew up with as babies in the late 90s and early 2000s?

Well, despite being crass, they still had so many good jokes and hilarious commentary in them. Sharky Malarkey is everything Cow and Chicken was - without the good stuff, that it. So basically take the butt jokes and leave everything else

This is a very strange set of comics. The cartoonist's name is Megan and Megan has a fat cat named Chaos. It's always nice to know a little about the author. We get to see a lot about her cat's antics.

The illustrations can often be a bit strange, and only occasionally do we get a funny comic.

This is the stereotypical "anxious young adult living in a modern world" set of web comics. So much of the humour and illustrations went right over my head. Maybe I'm just too old. Maybe reaching 20 means reaching maximum capacity for meme web comics. I'm over-saturated. I'm overflowing.

And of course, there's stuff about being "triggered". You can go stuff your triggers up your arse. Triggers are a serious thing that people with PTSD and trauma experience - not keyboard warriors. This tries so hard to be edgy and to be different, but it sucks.

Sarah Scribbles is so much better. Just go read her stuff. It's much more relatable and more grounded in reality I did not need to see a shark with a butt.

What the actual fuck. Yes, the staring just make me uncomfortable.

Look, this isn't for everyone. There are a lot of people who would love this (i.e. everyone else who reviewed this comic collection). Just not me. I think it these comics took a different direction I would have loved them.

Thank you, NetGalley and the publisher for a chance to read this hilarious comic!

I don't tend to read a lot of comics like this and I have no idea why because every time I do I end up loving them! This one definitely reminded me of "Sarah's Scribbles" and "Hyperbole and a half" which are some of my favourites, so if you liked them I would recommend this one!

This was hilarious, laugh out loud funny. The drawings are amazing and the subject matter manages to combine real-life, honest situations with completely bonkers, over the top ones (in a good way).

The only issue I had with this is that the cover and description don't really match up to what the story is actually about. The cover and blurb make the book look as though it follows Bruce the Shark throughout, but that's not the case. There is a weird and wonderful assortment of characters included in this book and it's a shame they aren't included on the cover too!

Overall, I loved this and it's a definite recommendation from me!

I received a free ebook version of this book through NetGalley.

Have you ever wondered if other people have thoughts as weird as your own? This little graphic story reinforced for me that there are definitely others on my level of weird. I didn’t find the “story” terribly cohesive or unique, but I definitely enjoyed reading this one. There were a few pages that had me laughing out loud. A fun, quick read.

It is easy to relate to Megan Nicole Dong's comics. Almost too easy. Like she's got some kind of dark, unsettling power that allows her to comment hilariously on the problems of modern life. Watch out for her. She's probably a witch.

It was a hilarious book. Some of the comics were relatable and the others were really quirky (which I loved). The interview with Jaws' star Bruce was great too.

A book cover with a shark on it always catches my eye. I couldn't wait to see what the shark was up to but it turned out it was a book about all sorts of topics and not so much about sharks. Nevertheless, the illustrations were good and there were some stories I liked. A few times I laughed out loud. Overall a good book and quick read that makes you laugh about things life throws your way told through some interesting characters.

Thanks to NetGalley and Megan Nicole Dong and Andrews McMeel Publishing for a free electronic ARC of this book.

This was not exactly what I expected. Parts of it were very relatable, well done and funny. I'm not sure what happened to the rest. The illustrations were consistently fairly good, even though somewhat outrageous. Left me with very mixed feelings, I would have enjoyed it more if it was about half as long....

I'm not really sure what I expected this to be... maybe a cute story about a funny shark. But it's a bunch of random comics without a story line, and a lot of profanity and crass humor. It's vulgar and I didn't laugh once. If you're going to be vulgar, at least make me laugh about it.
Not happy with this one.