Hoooo baby am I ever the intended audience for this! I am an avid Max Fun listener (tuppies unite!), a First Second stan, and a millennial (who does a bunch of typical millennial things but also goofs on millennial things). I was a massive fan of the podcast Bubble and I was so excited to return to this world.

This absolutely did not disappoint! The plot moved at a good clip but, as with the podcast, the jokes are really where Bubble shines. There are so many really great clever jokes and a lot of extremely dumb jokes! It was hard not to text my friends about all the funniest parts because that's basically the whole book.

The art is incredible! Tony Cliff brings a very classic comics style while still being really dynamic and neither too cute nor too standard. There are jokes layered in every part of this book! In the text (natch) but also in the sound effects and environments and clothing and side characters. A lot of the material is adapted from the first season of Bubble, but there was some new stuff too! And every single bit I could hear in the character's voices that I got to know so well from the podcast.

I also really enjoyed the interview at the end between Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan (the Bubble team) and the McElroy fam (fresh off finishing the third TAZ comic). I haven't read the third installment yet, but I did read the first two TAZ comics (and listen to that arc on the podcast, though I dropped off later) and they all had some incredibly interesting insights into the process of adapting their work. They also made a bunch of goofs which obviously I love. Six of my favorite dinguses in conversation about comics and podcasts!!

I'm definitely going to order a copy for myself and I will for sure make sure the comics selector buys this for my library!