I go in blind on every indie book I review, just a PDF in a very big file of PDFs. I tend to make my selections by title, whatever stands out at the time. Tonight, I saw the title The Dirty Triangle. I have no shame in admitting that my first thought was, huh, that sounds like slang for a woman's pubes. Wo-HEY!
Well, time to review some porn.
Despite my bewilderment at why someone would send this site a hentai title, I do advocate for treating erotic content as legitimate a form of art. I read a few erotic comics at times other than those dedicated to treating the horrible bestial urges of man, from Jess Fink's wonderful Chester 5000 to Jason Barton's twisted nonsense Live Nude Ghouls. Erotica is the elevation of porn to accomplish something greater, or at least different, than just getting people off. It can be a stage for beauty and human passion, or just something that makes you laugh out loud (see Oglaf).
This though? This is just porn.
Yup, now that I've put the soapbox back under the bed I can tell you, this book is just straight porny porn. A young virgin's dad works at a sex toy factory and makes the ultimate sex doll robot. The robot then fucks the virgin over the course of... just a lot of chapters... trading up to different fetishes and partners. The very first panel has her leaking breastmilk on our hero's head. A later story has some futa, that's chicks with dicks for those of you who haven't, like a filthy Marlow, traveled by steamer into the very Heart of Darkness of the Internet. Page after page of spoo and katakana sound effects.
It's the kind of book I don't think the author ever intended anyone to read in a straight line, just read until you finish and then move on with your life. So why on Earth was this sent to us I wonder? The best I can say about it in a non-sexual sense is it's so poorly written to pander to gross urges that it is darkly funny more than once. I've read some hentai in my day and this hardly stacks up in any respect. It's professionally rendered, but all that means is frames bursting with close-ups of faces and sloppy sex organs. It's not particularly sexy, and I'll wager most of our audience would be more unnerved than turned on (as for the rest of you...).
That's really it. No redeeming qualities above anything else you can find on the Internet, no story, no beauty, and the humor only lands because it's damn creepy. It's not good comicking, and it's not even good porn.
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Creator: Kazuma Takeuchi Translator: Steven LeCroy Publisher: Project-H Price: $19.99 Website
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