Title: Emotions Explained With Buff Dudes



Author: Andrew Tsyaston



Genre: Fiction, Comics, Art, Humor, Millennial,



Plot: Once we reach adulthood in this day and age, everything is overwhelmingly overwhelming and many of us have a hard time coping with the realities of life on our own. Mondays suck, our job is grudgingly completed each day and someone forgot to buy milk this week. Coffee is our best friend and no one has a name for that weird emotion we're feeling right now.



But there is light at the end of the tunnel and along the way, little spots of humor and stress relief which help us get to the end goal. Enter this humorous and colorful outlook on life and emotions depicted as buff dudes who rule the life of the skinny protagonist. We'll all find something in here which we can clearly relate to.



Likes/Dislikes: I love reading these comics online whenever they show up in my feed so finding a whole book of them in one place was a treat. I'm thinking of buying a copy for my husband. Loved this book.



Rating: PG-13 and up, mainly for content (adult life but pretty clean all things considered).



Date Review Written: August 27th, 2018



I received a copy of this book courtesy of Netgalley. I wasn't required to write a positive review and the opinions expressed in the above review are my own.

In the debut collection of Owlturd Comix, we join Shen on his journey through life’s ups and downs with social anxiety, sleep deprivation and a wide range of other emotions.

Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes is a quick read with cute animations and a funny insight into some of life’s less funny moments.

As a semi-regular reader of Owlturd Comix, I was a bit disappointed that there were no extras (like author comments, an introduction or even a chapter with sketches). While I understand it is a collection of the webcomics, in my mind Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes would be more value for people buying the book if there was more added to it.

Despite this, Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes is a good collection of assorted comics that can make readers struggling with their own day-to-day battles against life feel a little less alone.

Rating: 3/5

My review included mostly strips, but the text is this:
Do you know about Owl Turd Comix? Because you should.
It's … uber relatable?
And hilarious?
And topical?
A little bit too on the nose on occasion?
And other times, just 100% the plain honest truth.
So this is a collection of some of the best Owl Turd strips, and I highly recommend you check it out, if you could use a laugh as much as I could, right about now.

*This is available for pre-order on Amazon. My copy was given to me for review purposes through NetGalley.

Emotions Explained With Buff Dudes is…exactly what it says it’s about. It’s a set of comics on life itself by Andrew Tsyaston, the person behind Owlturd Comix and Shen Comix. The main character in Tsyaston’s comics is Shen. I’ve been following Shen and his antics for a long time now. He’s the kind of fictional character you can’t help but relate to.

He stays up till the wee hours of dawn, has student loans, and a huge Netflix addiction. That’s like 75% of the human population right there. Every comic in this book is painfully relatable and has been beautifully created.

Read this book if you like graphic novels about day to day experiences. You can finish it in under 2 hours and snap out of any reading slump you may be in. This book will make you snort with laughter and relate to every single comic in it.

Andrew Tsyaston provides a top-notch collection on the challenges of life explained through the lens of an army of absurd metaphors. Even those who are unfamiliar with Tsyaston's "Owlturd Comix" will immediately fall in love with its immediately and wonderfully relatable subject matter. Meanwhile, those who are already fans will now have a great hands-on work they can easily grab off their bookshelves for whenever they need the ridiculous pick-me-up that only Tsyaston's humor and art can provide.

An interesting look at the inner saboteur that often plagues us all but somewhat tepid compared to the comedy that is presented by similar artists.

The book is filled with takes on different parts of life by a person who overthinks and has some form of anxiety at most times. Putting it in bland words like this seems to dull the feel, so I will try harder to describe it and why I enjoyed it so much. For those who have not seen any of the comics before, the drawings are simple, but the expressions are hilarious. Emotions and life have their own buff dude persona. These are comics that you would laugh and then nod inwardly and say that it made perfect sense!

I know there are many comics out there which focus on life and the difficulties involved in navigating it, but this book ( and the humour within) definitely deserves a seat at the winners table.

I absolutely loved this book! It is hilarious and totally relatable. Seeing 'Life' in a funny yet meaningful way - that is what this book portrays. Almost all of the instances mentioned in the book are my favorites. Fun fact and brain, problems and sleep, self-esteem and life, hope and dreams and life, winners v/s losers and optimistic-pessimistic approach to life were totally relatable. Bath bombs for men was hilarious! Dinosaur smashing sadness made me go aww! The ever-lasting fight between Type A and Type B steals the show!
Emotions explained with Buff Dudes is a tiny but complete package. Thank you NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the ARC.

Great, hilarious read that takes the edge off life. Brought out the realitys of life in light humour without mockery.

It's no secret how much I love Shen Comix. They're my daily dose of giggles but, more than that, I love how poignant a lot of them are. If you're a human being with thoughts and emotions, perhaps with a pinch of anxiety, you'll see yourself in a lot of what Shen does. That's why I was so excited to support this collection!

It's true that there's nothing necessarily new in here, but it does collect some of my favorite Shen pieces all in one place. If you're new to these, you'll get to meet characters like Type A and Type B personality and our lovely friend LIFE. Ha! I actually envy you if you're new to these comics. I guarantee you'll quickly find yourself in love with Shen's totally honest, yet somehow adorable, takes on our day to day lives.

There's not much else to say, other than that you should buy this! It's an excellent way to support an artist who gives us so much joy and brutal self-reflection.

This was hilarious.
I loved the "type - A", "type - B" drawings.
As a type A myself, I laughed out loud, and knew my fellow Type A's would appreciate the humor in it.

Aside from being funny, it was really clever.

A super quick, yet super fun read.
This is the kind of book I would buy for a friend, or buy for myself and pick up every now and then when I needed a laugh!

This is another case of, if you read this comic on the Internet, you might want to have a printed collection, and if you haven't, then you might want to have a collection, to read it all in one shot. The jokes are humorous, though not fall off your chair so. Here are two examples, below.

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It is a good collection. Some of the "jokes' are more sad than funny, which is sort of how humor is.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

I found this book to be quite accurate with its humor. Some of the comics made me laugh so hard I cried. It is relatable and the comics are well created and thought out.

Young adults everywhere will easily relate to the protagonist in these comic strips, as he struggles with the challenges of life, self esteem, motivation, mental illness, mortality, and the path to success. I have definitely seen several of these comics posted on the internet but never knew the source behind them. I was not sure what to expect based on the title and cover, but I am glad I requested and downloaded this. These were absolutely hilarious and I would definitely recommend this collection to others.

This hit closer to home than a graphic novel is supposed to. I was not a follower of Owlturd Comix before I read this book, but now I am. Definitely buying this for friends, too.

I followed the artist on his social media accounts. I also so some of it being circulated by random pages with ot without credits. His comics are funny and relatable.

Fairly funny, but rather repetitive. And the title, as the blurp (#a vast array of emotions') is rqther misleqding, it's mainly about anxiety, and life kicking you in the behind...

I received a copy through netgalley

It's wonderful that these comics are now available in book form. Both sad and humorous and always insightful, they should be great for public library collections and for working with a YA population.

Cute little cartoons that are humorous and many times SO TRUE! I can identify with nearly all of them. Keep up the good work!

I found this short little book very funny and relatable; I really enjoyed the author's sense of humour. Some of the comics deal with fairly dark subjects such as mental health problems, but the author does this with wit and levity. Several pages looked like they were heading for twee life advice but he did a great job of subverting this and delivering a very funny punchline.