I love a good superhero comic. I’m a fan of texts which feature positive representation of plus-sized characters. And this Valiant comic series, Faith, is a pretty good example of both of these things. It’s perhaps not excellent, though. I have the deluxe edition, which binds up the first three TP editions, and today I read Volume 1 – Hollywood and Vine.

Faith is lovely, and has suitably engaging quirky and nerdy interests. What threw me a bit is how inconsistent the drawing of her is. It’s like the artists couldn’t quite decide how fat she should look, and whilst the size of her stomach is pretty consistent, her relative proportions and her facial structure were distractingly variable for me. I’m not sure if I was overly conscious of it because of my own ongoing issues with my double/triple chin, and if this kind of body variability is common across comics but I don’t notice them in other comics like I do in Faith because I’m overly invested in the depiction of a fat girl on the page. Either way, it was enjoyable. I’ll definitely read the other 2 volumes at some point, and I’m happy to have this on my shelf.