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When I began this series I mentioned that some comics will feature material impossible to publish in American market. Wrecked Hearts epitomizes this type of a story. This manga-style comic was created by two French author-artists and published by a Swedish publishing company. The comic contains two sci-fi romantic stories. In the first story 15 year old Fio is a girl living in a space colony on Callisto who lust over a cute boy she’s never spoken to and has a secret – she’s only half-human and has shapeshifting powers, which she decides to use to pursue her crush – as a boy. In Dark Energy, a cat-shaped robot journalist travels the galaxy to find interesting people to interview and write books about. This time he chose to interview Astree, a girl living in a greenhouse spaceship. Their meeting gets side tracked by sheaningans such as a planet being swallowed by a fissure in space, the ship turning into a refugee for sentient fart clouds, and other craziness among which Mikael falls in love with Astree.

Why a warning for such seemingly cute stories? There’s plenty of teen nudity and sexual fantasies, including a scene in which a character molests their sleeping love interest. In fact, the comic is opened by a scene of sexual harrassment dreamt by a character.24 pages out of circa 200.