Check, Please! — The Queer Hockey Bros Webcomic You Should Be Reading

The little webcomic that could just finished a super successful Kickstarter campaign.

Here’s why fans love it… That doesnt mean it hasnt found unprecedented success within the Tumblr demographic.

The webcomic just completedits second Kickstarter, earning almost $400,000 on a $32,500 goal.

What about this webcomic inspires such unabashed enthusiasm and loyalty?

Let me count the ways.

When the comic starts, Bitty is freshly-arrived at the inclusive Samwell from his small town in Georgia.

This is a story where the queer romance isnt subtext and no one dies in the end.

Seriously, theres so much pie.

Most feminist media focuses on portraying female relationships and identity in complex ways, which is great and necessary.

The brutality of hazing in both frats and sports teams.

This is not correlational; its institutional and cultural.

These spaces need to be challenged more than most.

Its one of the unicorns of modern storytelling.

Its interesting to me that, like many fandom-y works,Check, just!audience is mostly female.

What does that mean?

It has a queer romance at its center…

Unlike many mainstream queer love stories, you dont have to ship to the side i.e.

as a subplot or subtext or completely in fandom.

Its honest and sweet and complicated.

But he probably wouldnt be bi-sexual and he probably wouldnt struggle with mental illness.

In other words, he wouldnt be Jack.

Check, just!definitely doesnt have this problem.

More than that, the comic is a transmedia one, which means it exists across platforms.

It doesnt get any more internet culture-y than that.

Is there anything more fanworksian than that?

Its also been cool to see the artistic evolution of this comic.

And here the most recent panel (at the time of this writing)… Its a bit more polished, a bit more confident, and a bit more complex.

That being said,Check, hey!has been a narrative joy since its very first panel.

Im not chirping you.

This webcomic is swawesome.