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A winning combination of lighthearted silliness and hardcore sex. Unlike a lot of erotic comics, it is focused on enthusiastic consent (rather than smarmy "seduction") and genuine enjoyment of female pleasure. The characters are constantly aroused and looking for sex, but they are never once made to feel wrong for wanting sex often or for having it with multiple partners. There is real joy in these stories, something I don't generally find in most mainstream erotica.

(I read all 3 volumes as they were divided on Netgalley)

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All power to this masterpiece of erotica. From an artist I doubt I've ever come across (oo-er) comes a silly premise (woman told to stop w**king, so gets a conscience – and the two, woman and conscience, do nothing but ravage each other, the end) but a great fun spirit. Suitable for both genders, but perhaps talking more to the female one, this is a brilliant book, and one well worth resurrecting.

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Small Favors was a surprise, in every aspect. From the moment I saw it on NetGalley I was impressed by what it had to offer. Both the idea behind this graphic novel, and the art featured are amazing. It's funny and at moments touching, but what it is most of is original. I really liked the style of the art which seemed almost innocent, despite the nature of the storyline.

Note: I do recommend this read, but please bear in mind that it's 18+.

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I never thought that I'd be into a lesbian porno graphic novel but Small Favors is terribly charming and sex positive that you can't help falling in love. There are several stories, some just a couple of pages long, but it always ends up with everybody having sex. There's not much in terms of plot and the one main arc is that Nibbil is Annie's conscience in humanoid form, supposedly to keep Annie from masturbating all the damn time but she turned out to be a companion and enabler. This was unexpected!

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sorry I was unable to view this book so I was unable to read and review

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I wish the description had made it more clear that this was a F/F comic. I was disappointed that this story included no other kind of interactions.

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What Small Favors lacks in storytelling, it more than makes up for in charm and joy. Freed completely from any patriarchal restraints whatsoever, what we have is a series of short vignettes that have one goal in mind: find reasons to think about, talk about, and especially perform various sexual acts. It's cute as hell for porn though I wish it explored the emotional side as well as the it does so completely for the physical.

Story: Annie is daydreaming of her cute neighbor again while masturbating - when her conscience appears and tells her she will get a 'minder' to make sure she spends less time with sex. Fortunately for Annie, her minder just wants to have sex all the time as well - and with her small size, the two get into all kinds of 'situations' together that lead to mutual enjoyment.

There's not much to say about Small Favors - I certainly don't want to psycho-analyze the plot since it really is fluffy and should be viewed that way. The drawings are clean - reminiscent of the Archies and that era. The book is black and white with no color. Yes, it is very explicit - this is rightly titled porn and not erotica. But the love the author put into creating this is evident and I loved seeing porn from a female viewpoint and with uninhibited charm. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

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Small Favors is a graphic novel about a woman, her conscience, and her crush on the woman next door. Sexually explicit, funny, and oddly touching at times, our introverted main character deals with her extroverted conscience Nibble and spends a lot of time without having any apparent means of supporting herself. Basically, it's lesbian pornography in a graphic novel.

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I'm not sure what I was expecting, but Small Favors was a surprise. Definitely for an adult audience, but it was a fun read. I was actually surprised by how much I liked the short vignettes. While the art wasn't over the top, it was well done. I am glad I got outside my comfort zone to try something new.

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This was uh.. not what I expected... It was super super SUPER raunchy. Like Porn raunchy. I'm all for porn by women for women, but this was a bit too much for me.

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This was a quite cute graphic novel even though it's porn. I really like it.
It certanly is for adult audience only!

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While not what I meant to pick, a nicely drawn erotic graphic novel.

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This book did not make me blush. It actually left me cold and a bit confused. Much of the sex takes place between a grown woman and a miniature woman- not sure what the mini is supposed to be. Since it was written by a woman, I expected it to have I dunno, maybe more grown up sex. If you think a vibrator that is really a miniature woman sounds great, this is for you. Or if someone saying vroom vroom - as opposed to faster faster, it is for you, or if you just want to read about very vocal people, definitely for you. For me... just not grown up enough.

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I was curious to read this book as soon as I saw it in Netgalley and it was fun, though it wasn't sexy enough for me. The illustrations were great and the sex addicts theme was really cool, sadly I'm not interested enough to read the rest of the series. Please note that the F/F genre isn't my favorite, but it could be yours.

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Lively, charming and diverse, with an art style that makes me think of Jaime Hernandez crossed with the classic newspaper cartoon strips. But just to be clear on the key detail: when the cover describes it as 'girly porno', it isn't kidding. I saw Netgalley had this and figured, she co-wrote an Adventure Time comic, it's from Oni, how hardcore can it be? Surely that's just a wry title for something which, at most, will be risque along the lines of Sunstone or similar. Well, no. It's absolute filth. Probably contains fewer pages with the protagonists fully dressed than Lost Girls. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's just not the sort of thing I'd necessarily review as a rule, if I didn't owe Netgalley some feedback. Because while any review is by definition subjective, some are more subjective than others, and if there's one thing more subjective than whether comedy is funny or not, it's whether porn is hot or not. So: if you like polymorphously* perverse girl-girl(/-girl(/-girl)) action, with no pretence at a message beyond 'Sex is fun, so why not, eh?', which dodges any risk of male gaze through coming from a female writer-artist, you'll probably like this. If not, it really isn't for you.

*Assuming that term is still appropriate if someone is changing size rather than shape. Close enough, I think.

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A fun erotic graphic novel with lot's of fairy mischief.

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This is the most adorable erotic comic I have ever read. This is the story of Annie and Nibbil who is a part of her conscience who becomes manifest into a magical woman. The idea being that Nibbil will keep her from her sexually liberated ways but one look at her and Nibbil joins in with the debauchery, later in the collection this progresses to the couple having polyamorous sex-ventures with other women.

I really enjoyed how sweet the lead characters were to each other, in between the sexcapades with other women they occasionally talk about how much they love each other. Which is such a small thing but it helped me connect with their characters in ways that I don't feel like I can in most erotica I have read. All of the sex scenes are so fun, especially I think this book contains the most enthusiastic bdsm scenes I have ever encountered. I will also say how varied the collection is considering there are relatively few characters, the types of sex and sexual situations are incredibly diverse which really keeps you reading.

The whole book has a real sense of fluffy fun which combined with delightful characters and incredibly erotic erotica I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone looking for a all women sex romp. This combination of adorable artwork, cute characters and really graphic sex scenes is something I've only really seen before in Jess Fink's work (which I love), so I especially recommend this to you if you're a fan of Chester 5000 and other Jess Fink erotica comics.

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This is an erotic graphic a novel and it's completely adorable. The premise is a bit odd: the main character, as punishment by her conscious for her constant masturbation, gets shackled with a physical manifestation of her conscious, Nibbil, who turns out to be just as--if not more--sex-crazed than Annie.

I love seeing a sex-positive title where all the all-female cast are okay sex--joyful about it, in fact. And despite all the very explicit scenes, it still ends up being a adorable thanks to Nibbil's happy-go-lucky nature. And it's fairly obvious that despite the sexual focus of the book, the characters all genuinely like or love one another. It's fairly light on plot but heavy on charm. I would have liked some more story though.

I was disappointed that this review copy did not contain the introduction from Kelly Sue DeConnick, though.

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Thanks to netgalley.com, Colleen Coover, Diamond Book Distributor and One Press/Limerence Press for the advance PDF file copy, for my honest review.

" Small Favors, the critically-acclaimed girly porno comic by Eisner award winning cartoonist Colleen Coover , is back in print in a deluxe hardcover edition! Join Annie and her tiny taskmaster Nibbil in fun, erotic adventures sure to make you blush".

Back in 2002, I heard about Small Favors Vol. 2 at work. So when I saw this as a Read Now selection, figured why not see what it was about, and being a cartoon made it an easy pick.

basically it's a lesbian comic porn, that's funny adorable even, and just an overload of sex by Annie and Nibbil. The drawings/graphics by Coover are amazing, they basically tell the story without words and definitely will check out some of her other work.

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