Some of these were pretty funny, I was originally supposed to review this before it came out but I had nothing but issues trying to review the ARC via Netgalley though I have never had any other issues. Glad I am able to finally do so. Those with anxiety will find several of these amusing at least I did.

Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes by Andrew Tsyaston was super cute and a really fun and fast read. I loved the art style.

'Emotions Explained with Buff Dude' by Andrew Tsyaston is a collection of comics about (mostly) bad reactions to emotions.

The humor here is the kind of self-dialogue between the main character and some labeled emotions. The humor is in some of the terrible advice that is given, but along the way, there are a few nuggets of truth to glean. It's a fun collection and I enjoyed reading it and laughing at the comics and myself.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

I absolutely love this author's comics. This book was as awesome as expected. These comics are mostly relatable, often hilarious and randomly heartwarming and cute.

I love Shen's comics. It was a pleasure to see his "buff" characters in this book (sorry for seeing them beat Shen though...)

Had a bit of a late review on this book because after reading a bit into it, it turns out I have already read most of it! I've been a fan of Andrew "Shenpai" Tsyaston for a number of years now, and to anyone that enjoys some very relatable and sometimes touching humor, pick up this book! Shen's art style has gotten better and it shows, the personifications of every day emotions, motivations, or life itself are lovingly reproduced in a way that speaks to me on a very core level.

This book also gives a bit of insight into what goes on in the mind of an author who is trying to make comic making their bread and butter main job. Shen speaks about lack of motivation, lack of sleep, and overabundance of procrastination that anyone can related to. This book is great both in bursts or a full on binge, and is a great book for a laugh.

It's mentioned in the book, but Shen also runs multiple webcomics, with the two most popular being Owlturd (recently renamed) and Blue Chair. 5/5!

This wonderful collection of comics made me laugh, made me think, and I completely related to many aspects of the work. Struggling to deal with anxiety, emotions, and everyday life
Is humorously addressed throughout the work. I will be recommending to all my friends and colleagues.

Amusing and very relatable short-form comics about personified emotions from the creator of OwlTurd Comics.

I absolutely LOVE this book/these comics. This author is hilarious. I've seen some of them from time to time on the web but almost never directly linked to his website. There are some comics in here that legitimately made me laugh out loud from the punchline. The illustration style may not be for everyone but I think it perfectly suits his comics. Fantastic read!

Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes is a brilliant and hilarious serious of comics. Extremely relatable on many levels.

I really like Andrew Tsyaston comics, is one my favs strips but I never was able to read this via NetGalley.
Awesone wor as always.

Shen's comics have justifiably found an audience who share his struggles with adult life and the feelings that come with trying to take care of yourself. What isn't so common is his ongoing optimism. Sure, he has trouble with student loans or depression or anxiety, but his avatar maintains in the face of these emotional challenges, which makes reading and re-reading this book encouraging.

Personally, I find the comics more powerful in smaller chunks. It's too easy to read a bunch of them all at once here, which means I'm not giving them the thought-space they deserve. For being small and simple (both in concept and graphically), they're still powerful in their universality and empathy. The shared experiences of daily life these days make this book extremely approachable.

Tsyaston's Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes is a collection of one shot comics focusing on important issues for people today. Mental health, scial anxiety, and scual awkwardness feature in many. Now, I admit, this wasn't what I was expecting at first. Emotions are not literally explained. Instead, they, and other aspects of existence (Life, Student Loans) are anthropomorphized as big buff nude dudes (no inappropriate dangly bits though! Perfectly PG). I really grokked many of these cartoons, especially the night owl ones. Haha, me to a T. I'm one of the weird ones geared to be awake at night. While I enjoyed the content, the artwork just wasn't my cuppa.

***Many thanks to the Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This book was all around a big mood, and a big laugh. I found it hysterical and I'm definitely going to read it again someday. Andrew Tsyaston's humor and art fit perfectly together.

From the back cover: "Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes is your fully illustrated guide to the hyper-conflicted, tragicomic feelings of our age." I couldn't agree more. I've seen a handful of these sprinkled across the internet and they always get a laugh out of me, it's great to see more young illustrators publishing their collections of their work because their comics are all too relatable. The fatalism is a strong with this one.

This book contains a collection of little comics that you're most likely familiar with if you frequent sites like Tumblr, Pinterest and co.

I had already seen some of these, but a lot were actually new for me. And practically all are very relatable. They tell the struggles of being introvert, having anxiety or just everyday adult life issues.
The art style is quirky and the idea of explaining everything with buff dudes is hilarious and you just wanna say: Yep, that's how it is to a lot of these little comics.

Also: #endmorningculture!

If you like to see your thoughts and struggles reflected in a fun way definitely check these out.

I had encountered a lot of Andrew Tsyaston's comics online without investigating who he was or the owlturd.com website, but always enjoyed the comics I ran across. It was nice to see such a consistently funny and insightful set of comics all together - very clever and enjoyable, and now I know who to credit anytime I want to post one of his great illustrations.

This was just so good! I had the best time reading this one, and it's too bad it's such a fast read. I could read an entire encyclopedia of these little cartoons! They're incredibly relatable and funny. My favorite ones would perhaps be the Personality A and B type cartoons which are pretty accurate xD the whole book will take you probably only a half an hour or so to read, but you will probably be coming back to read it again and again. Something that should definitely be on your shelf, if you like cartoons like Sarah's Scribbles or The Oatmeal and similar stuff.

This book is another one of those relatable graphic novels that have been coming out lately.
It made me chuckle a few times but it was nothing out of the ordinary.
Nonetheless, I liked it.

I’ve occasionally chuckled and bothered my wife with a “come look at this!” when comics from Owlturd floated past on social media… but apparently I’m too lazy to actively go out looking for them, so having 100+ pages of them gathered in one place was awesome! As the title/cover suggests, this collection mostly features personifications of emotions, life, personality types, etc.

The humor is fairly cynical/pessimistic which appeals to me, even though it probably shouldn’t (as a pastor I may have seen human nature at its worst a little too often). I think that I laughed the hardest at the Type A / Type B personality comparisons as they were pretty spot on for my wife and me. I’ll leave you to guess which of us is which.

Overall, this was the funniest thing that I have read in a long time. If your sense of humor tends toward the cynical, you must read it!