Life, Love and Hockey (Oooh, And Pie) In 'Check, Please!'
Ngozi Ukazu's charming, cheerful webcomic about a gay college hockey player has been collected in book form. Check, Please! stays squarely on the bright side of life, a brave choice in its own way.
is a soap bubble. Ngozi Ukazu's comic levitates and drifts insouciantly, belying the massive forces of temperature and pressure that must be held in balance for it to exist. Its story of a college hockey team isn't particularly gripping or dramatic, though there are many flashes of joy. But its quality of suspended animation — of a moment preserved in quivering perfection — gives this comic a tension, and
