Thanks to @onipress via @netgalley for the advance copy of Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren, out on 20th August. I'm feeling a bit delicate today after a night out dancing and this graphic novel collection of cute, funny and very NSFW sci-fi stories was the perfect accompaniment to tea and a bacon buttie in aiding my recovery.

Each of the five stories is a sexy encounter between super heroes, villains, aliens and vigilantes, with mostly LGBT characters plus some less easy to categorise extraterrestrials. There's lots of focus on negotiation and consent, it felt really body positive, and had some nice trans rep. There's all sorts of kink including pet play, bondage, D/s, and a very sweet and funny attempt at negotiating an intruder fantasy, plus lots of superpowered sex!

I loved the art and the storytelling in this collection, and enjoyed how it showed kink in loving domestic settings, even when its the lair of two super villains! I really hope there'll be a Super Fun Sexy Times volume 2.

Reading this book was indeed a super sexy fun time. Who knew erotic and funny graphic short stories were a thing.

I first gave it 3 stars, but then the little book lingered in my mind. I kept thinking that the way it treated sex in a positive, consensual and diverse way was unheard of.

In fact, I was thinking that I would rather have my teenage nieces read this book, even with explicit sex, than many YA novels I see around, many entitled to cinematic adaptations that romanticize abusive relationships.

This book was so fun! Not only that, the diversity of race, gender, and sexual orientation was great. Every story felt so loved and cared for, especially with each character receiving a description about who they are at the end of their story. Every relationship felt cherished, even if the characters weren't actually together, you could feel their connection. I was pleasantly surprised by this book and I can't wait to read more.

I thought this was pretty cute! It's a little anthology of superheroes and villains and their romantic/sexy lives. I didn't love the art style, but there was nothing wrong with it either. It just wasn't my personal taste. I also wish each of the shorts was a little longer. They each could have done with a few more pages to develop the story a bit. I absolutely loved the diversity in this book as well. I think the author did a great job with giving each couple a unique backstory and normalizing different kinds of couples.

If your looking for a really smutty and queer graphic novel then your in the right place. The art style wasn’t exactly to my liking but smut really makes up for it

Wow, I've never read anything like this before and it was great! If you're looking for super inclusive, body-positive, erotic short stories/comics, then this is the one for you. I enjoyed all the stories of these superheroes/ supervillains and thought the positive sex and body messages in each were great. The romances between the characters was sweet and the depictions of their relationship (sexual and otherwise) was realistic. I only wished that each comic was a little longer so that we could get to know the characters more--because I definitely wanted to know more about them! I thought the exploration of sexuality in this was really well done. The comics are graphic sexually, it's basically drawn erotica, so I wouldn't recommend reading this in public (definitely NSFW)!

I wasn't sure that I liked the art work/graphic style of the comics at first, but the more I read the more I liked it. I would definitely read Vol 2 of Super Fun Sexy Times if the author came out with more! This was one fun, sexy read that might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm glad that I stumbled upon it.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for making this available to read and review!

This book was a lot of fun smutty content. With a variety of relationships represented, it was one for a lot of different audiences. I would take full stories on some of these stories for sure! It was a good time for me.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL. Obviously, caps-lock was needed. Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren is not your typical graphic novel, nor is it something that is going to be for everyone. It's graphic, and I do mean graphic so that that into consideration. The artwork beautiful, but the content takes the cake on how amazing this book is. This book is full of consent, sweet, fun, and sexy consent. I loved that we saw characters negotiating role play scenes & realistically talking about sex. I also truly appreciated how inclusive this book was. You have people of all shapes, sizes, sexual orientation, etc. which made me want to cry with how beautiful it was.

This is definitely a book I would recommend to the right reader. It is well worth the read & a book that I'm going to have to buy a hard copy of.

3.5 stars rounded down

Honestly, I'm not the best judge for I guess I will call this a graphic shorty. The book consists of 5 short stories told in comic or graphic (is my terminology wrong, idk) form. Oh, and this is totally in the erotic category. I was immediately curious about the book when I read the blurb and decided- eh, why not?

The short stories are extremely inclusive in the LGBT persuasion and cover a variety of ethnicity, body type, and the kink spectrum as well as covering a heavy dose of what consent should look like. I will say the conversations felt a bit stilted to me and I didn't quite get the humor factor of a lot of it. I'm not a comic person so this could just be me.

The premise of the shorts are super peoples (heros, villians, and their plethora of assistants) in their off time. The stories were well done for the little shorts. Again, I had a bit of difficulty with the conversations and humor. The dialogue felt a bit off or stilted. The graphics were drawn in such a way that I felt they were (to my eyes) a bit detracting (in the scheme of what I imagine as super fun and sexy) but still well done. I enjoyed that the book completely embraces inclusion and communication between partners.

*Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and publisher for the generously provided ARC! *

This was a very lovely erotic graphic novel. The premise of seeing what superheroes are like AFTERHOURS was quite charming and it was a fun, sexy read. I will definitely be looking forward to future volumes.

This was such an interesting graphic novel.
I mainly requested it for it's premise.
The scenarios were all really cute and had SUCH great representation.

4 Stars for this graphic novel of five unique, sexy, NSFW short stories. I can’t say I’ve read a lot of erotic comic books, so I’m assuming that this is unlike typical graphic novels in this genre. This book is about their relationships as much as it is about the sex. Nevertheless, Super Fun Sexy Times does live up to its name.

Three things stood out to me. First is I loved the art of the writer/artist, Meredith McClaren. Most typical superhero comic book art consist of colors that are bright and outlined in black ink, McClaren’s style is not typical. While her colors are bold with minimal shading, her colors are not in the primary spectrum. Second is that the characters are not all heterosexual musclemen or busty women. They come in all sizes, shapes, colors and combinations. There are a number of couple combinations - M/M, M/F, F/F and M/Alien. Diversity and inclusion is the theme here. And the third thing which really stood out to me is that there is consent before and more discussion before and/or after sex than I ever expected.

Sidenote – I liked the choice the author made of adding the bios of each character after their stories. Because the fun facts she adds that are not mentioned in the story would've been distracting.

I'm looking forward for Vol. 2.

Ok, I knew this was a graphic novel about Sexy Times, but I was not prepared for how soon we see just how graphic it was. Totally not a bad thing, but there was a bit of a shock factor there lol This is a very sex positive, diverse, graphic novel! Illustrations were very well done.

Just a couple disclaimers, this definitely is NSFW lol and obviously contains mature content.

This was actually super cute! I loved the relationships in it and the way consent was a prominent theme.

There was great representation of different sexualities, body types and kinks!

This is pretty graphic (lots of dicks and vaginas about haha) but it was also really tasteful and everything was done in a very loving and respectful way!

I loved the little fact boxes about the characters at the end of each short story and I will definitely be keeping my eye out for Vol 2!

I found this comic to be alright. While I did appreciate the open discussions and the conversations, the diversity, and proper inclusion of LGBTQ+ relationships. I just felt like it was a bit lacking and not entirely erotic. The artwork was still nice and it was a really quick read. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

This was so good! Superheroes and kinky sex?! YES! I do wish that it was longer. I absolutely adored this.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this electronic review copy.

Honestly I wasn’t a huge fan of this one though it was mostly me. The dialogue was decent and the illustrations were consistent if not always clear what was going on.

Okay, first off, the art is adorable and brightly colored and cartoonish and EXTREMELY EXPLICIT, HOO BOY, NOT FOR KIDS. The stories all revolve around sex and there are lots of up-close views of various people's genitalia, but it's actually a super wholesome collection of shorts that all feature explicit consent and relationship negotiation and affection in addition to orgasms. The characters range widely in skin tone and body size (including a spider-lady who looks like a toned-down version of The Stalk from Saga, in case anybody has a phobia and wants to avoid that) and include a grab-bag of LGBTQ+ identities. Several of the stories feature kink HEAVILY (kitten-play, lingerie/feminization, a pre-negotiated rape fantasy, and some BDSM), just so you're aware. But if none of those things are dealbreakers, I do recommend this as queer-friendly and age-, size- and race-diverse erotica!

Super fun, quick, smutty stories starring a diverse and inclusive cast of superheroes and villains and filled with lots of sex and body positive messages. I only wish the stories would’ve been a bit longer.

And this is REALLY explicit, so NSFW.

Oh wow this was AMAZING!!!! I loved every single page, every second I spent reading this!!!

Super Fun Sexy Times is about the, well, super fun sexy times that superheroes, villains, sidekicks and the people involved with them have!
This is one of the few books that has an actually fitting and very well done blurb that summarizes it perfectly, and this is one of the rare occasion where I actively encourage reading the blurb!!!

I adored every single of the five stories - each of them individually is great and a perfect 5 star read, and together they are diverse, not just in their characters but also in the different facets of a society where superheroes are a thing.
It's hard to say which story was my favourite, but I'd probably go with "Worst Case Scenario", the very first one, because it made me fall in love with the comic overall from the very first page.

The artstyle was SUPERB. I liked it from the very first page: it's simple yet expressive and just so much fun to look at, with lovely details and and inherent vibrancy, even if the colours are muted.

If there is one thing I had to criticise it would be the cover and title. The title works when you know what the book is about, but if you don't....
I also think the cover completely fails to convey the beauty of the pages within. The characters' faces were one of my favourite things about the art style, so to me it feels like a missed opportunity to not show a face on the cover, too.
Neither the cover nor title did in any way take away from my enjoyement of the comic, though!

I really can't recommend Super Fun Sexy Times enough, it was a delight to read and I'm sure there is something in there for everyone! Be it from the aesthetics of a character, to kinks and sexual preferences, characters who have figured out their gender and characters who haven't quite yet, and so much more!