Sweet Queer Romances

So Ben Cook just graduated from college with an English degree and can’t find a job in his field. My friends and I have had many a conversation about the condition of needing five years experience for an entry-level job *sobs in Millenial*. Turns out he should have just looked to his last name (ha!) because he finds a help wanted sign outside a restaurant and gets the job. Naturally, there’s a chef there who’s fine–fine and it’s got Ben even rethinking his career path! I mean… say you’re down bad without saying you’re down bad. This graphic novel is cute enough to make me momentarily forget how much I hated working in restaurants, which is quite the feat.

Kris and D’Vaughn are on a reality show that gives them six weeks to plan their wedding. The only problem is that their relationship is fake and they have to be convincing enough in their affections that family and friends don’t guess what’s going on. If any of them do, neither of the ladies will get the $100,000 reward. It seems like it’ll be easy money since they have natural chemistry, but then the priorities change and it starts to feel like the reality show is getting in the way of real feelings.

Here’s another reality show one! It seems like they are pretty much perfect settings for romance tropes. Here, Dev does his best to make fairy tales come true as the producer of the reality show Ever After. The romantic scripts he writes for the show’s contestants are so good that the show’s popularity has grown since he came on. Too bad his actual love life is in shambles. Meanwhile, tech star Charlie has suffered a blow to his image and seeks to mend it by being on the show. His already terrible dating awkwardness is only exacerbated on camera, and he struggles to connect with the 20 women he’s been matched with. That’s when Dev steps in, but the two find out they have more chemistry than the contestants.