YMMV / Love Everlasting

• Growing the Beard: While the early issues are liked, "Too Hip For Love!" is considered to be when the series starts showcasing its potential.
• Nightmare Fuel: Issue #7 features Joan — inexplicably remaining in a married life with a love interest she has no real feelings for — attempting to play along to the domestic life she's woefully unprepared for, mostly considering how previous stories tended to stop right after the marriage proposal. She spends half of the story seemingly content with becoming a housewife and raising a family... and then she snaps — trashing her own house, and publicly assaulting a woman she (correctly) identifies as Penny Page — before attempting to flip back to "happy, loving housewife" mode. The disjointed, fractured page layouts during these breakdowns is viscerally uncomfortable in a surprisingly mundane way, communicating how bizarre "Groundhog Day" Loop or not, Joan is losing her goddamn mind from the sheer torment and despair of her reality.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: A common critique of the series is that it takes a while for the story as a whole to really get started. The first several issues provide necessary foundation in explaining the surreal jumping-between-love-stories situation Joan is in and is attempting to navigate, but it can still be difficult to follow and raises a ton of questions that don't get answered for a while. The "Too Hip For Love" arc starting in issue #6 is where the series really hits its stride, with all the earlier setup paying off as foundation for Joan experiencing a single love story that spans a lifetime, providing some of the most suspenseful, heartbreaking, and genuinely romantic moments the series has yet to offer.
• Spiritual Successor: Part Two of "Too Hip For Love!" that shows Joan going through life after the marriage and wedding that ended most romance comics has some parallels with "The American Dream" from the 1970’s feminist anthology comic Pandora’s Box: Two women (Joan and Suzanne) are housewives after the archetypal “happily ever after” ending, they’re both mothers of small children and are dealing with mental health issues that are ignored by their well meaning but far from understanding husbands (Joan is trapped in a reality that she’s not equipped for while Suzanne is unable to return to her poetry while caring for the children and house and is developing depression) and it ends on a Downer Ending (Joan ends up in and out of mental institutions for years while Suzanne is Driven to Suicide and uses her children to aid her.)

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