Review 122: Shortcut Love

Art: 8
Plot: 6
Characters: 7
Sex: 6

This one stars a high-ranking executive who creates designs for logos, adverstisements, and televison ads. He and his group are less popular lately, but a new guy shows up who works way harder than the rest of them, and he seems to be brilliant despite his lack of experience. The leader of the group is tired of his job and has no enthusiasm for life, so at first he takes the newbie's bold suggestions as insults. Until one day when he starts to see that the guy just wants to create better designs, much like he himself did before he lost interest.
This would all be kinda uninteresting if there wasn't a random semi-rape scene with the new guy 'coercing' the group leader. With that added, it's extremely uninteresting and vaguely irritating. One more cliche, check!

The art is all right. Typical style, really. The characters didn't particularly stand out, but the style was decent.

The plot, as mentioned above, was mediocre and frustrating once the rape-scene came into play. The business parts of the story aren't all that fascinating, and when the reader finds out that there won't even be any build-up before the historic 'first sex' scene, it really deflates any remaining interest.

The characters aren't particularly moving. The new guy comes off as really annoying and immature at the beginning, while the group leader is stuck-up and bored of life.

The 'sex' is lame and predictable, with the typical 'I'm being raped but it's actually kinda nice' situation. Which I don't have to describe by now, as I'm sure you all know what I mean at this point. Seriously frustrating - it's becoming a pet peeve of mine for sure.

All in all, 27/40.

Recommendation: Not worth your time, nor anyone else's.