Will Sargent reviewed Empire state by Jason Shiga
Review of 'Empire state' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
It's like if Optic Nerve wasn't any good.
There's one redeeming quality -- the asian girl that this guy has a crush on, who at least has the honesty to be clear about what she wants and what her flaws are. The guy... doesn't. Not only is he so boring he spends five pages on the correct way to insert Mylar flaps, he's so dumb he learns HTML by copying the source to a geocities page (admittedly this may not an unforgivable sin to other people, but, but, standards, FFS).
However, the art is delightful and I do feel a bit sorry for this guy simply because he is so outclassed by everyone and everything in the book, the entire time. I hope he gets all the Mylar flaps in the world.