Thought Train to Pusan

I honestly can’t tell you why I haven’t gotten into Ngozi Ukazu’s web-comic series Check, Please! before (this book is just the first 2-years of the protagonist’s story compiled into one volume), because I know I’ve heard good things about it before, and upon finally reading it I can say that I really did enjoy it a lot! It is super cute, with a lively and clean art style, and is about nice hockey bros just being bros?? Love that. Yeah, maybe it’s a little predictable at times, but I don’t mind at all as I was excited to see things unfold the way they did. Really, the only thing I could complain about is how it is a little abrupt from piece to piece, but that’s just a function of being from a web-comic that has not been pieced together into one book. So I can’t really fault it for that. But let’s get on to what this is about! Check, Please! #1: Hockey follows Eric Bittle (or, Bitty, as he is known by his team) a former figure skater who because of his quick sk...