A review by katharine_opal
Lucky Penny: Color Edition by James Lucas Jones, Yuko Ota, Ananth Hirsh

5.0

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

I want to preface this by explaining I've already read Lucky Penny several times before! I read it when it was still getting first released page by page as a webcomic, and I even have my own copy on my bookshelf. This edition I've been given by NetGalley is the ~Full Color~ release! The comic is fantastic in black and white, but it's raised to a whole other level when it's in full color. The fight scenes being in these crazy palettes just emphasized how nuts the scene is. I'm just in love with how gorgeous being in full color makes this comic. The story itself is so fun. It's about Penny, a girl who is cursed with bad luck. She loses her job, and her apartment, and ends up having to live out of her friend's storage unit. Penny does her best to stay positive even when times are hard and manages to land a job at a local laundromat, which is owned by her friend's parents and run by her friend's grouchy kid brother. She has a meet-cute with the receptionist at the local gym, who catches her trying to sneak in to use the showers, and a friendship (with room for romance!) begins. This comic is good, and it has a great blend of reality and absurdity to it. If you've ever read Scott Pilgrim or Octopus Pie, you will understand exactly what I mean by that. Also, with this full-color edition, they added two pages extra of the comic! I looked at my edition, and this extra little scene isn't there. This small addition is actually perfect and makes the comic feel fully complete in a satisfying way.