2012 Reread: I got lost in this for a month. My very first full reread since the series hit its ending. Since I knew where it would start and go and end up. It was just as terrible, wonderful, painful, heartbreaking, heart healing, amazing as every other read. I never stop knowing my heart belongs to this. ( )

Long sigh. I quit reading SIP a long time ago. I came across this and thought, well, wouldn't it be nice to visit that universe again? Well, not so much. How disappointing to meet yet another reiteration of the tired old plot I abandoned way back when: Katchoo confesses her love, Francine cries a lot and can't make up her mind to experience lesbian joy. I wish I could just read about the Parker Girls instead.

Strangers in Paradise is the magnum opus if frustrated comic strip artist Terry Moore. I say frustrated because he’s spent many years trying to break into the Sunday comics pages only to realize that he has a much longer and more involved story to tell. SIP is the story of Katchoo, Francine, and David, three completely different individuals who all love each other and who are all not sure just how to work that out. Between jobs, relationships and even the mob, the three come to depend on each other and in the end can’t help but hurt each other at the same time. ( )