Always Human is 100% Human

I’ve been seeing posts around the webcomics communities I frequent for a comic called Always Human for a long time. The last time I visited the comic there were only a couple of pages. It was pretty, but it didn’t seem to be updating, with any regularity, so it sort-of slipped off my radar.

I recently wandered over to the site to see if anything had happened since I’d been there last and there were a LOT of pages. So I started reading.

I don’t often read romance comics because I often find they ask for an emotional investment that they haven’t earned. They want you to love characters that you haven’t had any chance to establish an emotional relationship with. Always Human is different. It gives you characters and lets you grow into them before it starts wringing you with the feels.

And while none of the conflict in Always Human are really on an epic, world-altering scale, they is very real. The comic has done a wonderful job of making me squirm nostalgically for Sunati and Austen as they begin their relationship and enter into those conflicts that inevitably arise in a new relationship.

The whole thing just feels so real on an emotional level. And while the art is gorgeous and the utopian cyberpunk setting is fascinating, it’s that human drama that kept me reading.

I highly recommend you check it out.