Love is already a complicated thing to begin even before Franklin throws all of these different complexities into Hazel and Mari’s relationship for them to try and overcome.
There are many points where Bingo Love could follow one of those facets and become a book almost solely about that one aspect of the story, whether it’s about race, sexuality, age, or even family, but Franklin touches on most of those while keeping the heart of book on the romance and love shared by Hazel and Mari. The empathy of Franklin’s story encompasses a life that has many varied and complicated facets. Through St-Onge’s performance of the characters, you get to experience the range of emotions and conflict that Hazel is living through, the joy and the pain that comes along with discovering who Hazel is and the living with the decisions that she makes during a lifetime. You can tell everything that Hazel feels for Mari through Hazel’s facial expressions. Taking Franklin’s script, St-Onge and colorist Joy San provide the compassionate spark for these characters.
St-Onge’s art perfectly captures the uncertain thrill of first love as well as the pain that years apart and even the tears that years together can bring. Tee Franklin’s story about Hazel and Mari, two young girls who fall in love only to be forced apart for decades before getting their “happily ever after,” is a wonderfully complex and heartfelt story that is more ambitious than what Franklin and St-Onge can ultimately put on the pages of this comic.įranklin and St-Onge simply infuse every page with love, whether it’s their love for this story or the characters’ love for one another. It’s an LGBT love story that straddles a line of being a comic about the issues and being a comic about romance (but why can’t it be both?). It’s a love story about two women who grow up to realize that their love is natural and beautiful. It’s a love story of two women who have to spend a large portion of their lives hiding their confusing-to-them loving relationship. There’s a lot to unpack in Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge’s Bingo Love.
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