''Ménage à 3'' is a webcomic by Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsdon. The comic ran from 2008 to 2019.

Premise

''Ménage à 3'' is set in

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and centres on Gary, who initially is a virgin with little social life and a large pornography collection. After his two roommates Dillon and Matt move out, they are replaced by two women: Zii, a

pansexual Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determ ...

punk rocker with no sense of boundaries, and Didi, a naive

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. Zii decides to help find Gary someone to lose his virginity with. Other characters include Sonya, who insists she isn't a

lesbian A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...

even while having sex with women, and Yuki who suffers from phallophobia. ''Ménage à 3'' is a sex comedy initially drawing from harem manga, with misunderstandings and

slapstick Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as ...

. The comic features explicit discussions of sex acts and depictions of bare breasts and panty shots.

Reception

''Ménage à 3'' won its creators the 2018

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, a Canadian comics award, for "Webcomics Creator / Créateur de Bandes Dessinées Web". It was also nominated in 2009 and 2010. In 2008, ''Ménage à 3'' was the thirteenth most popular webcomic among those comics that used the

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ad-serving system. Reviewing the comic for

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, Lauren Davis felt that the first year or so of strips were "a bit one-note" and "banal", leaning heavily on the "sexy shenanigans". But Davis felt that over time the comic grew and developed a suitable rhythm for its stories. Davis called Lagacé's artwork "simply gorgeous; her grasp of anatomy makes a comic where people are constantly taking off their clothes a natural fit."

References

External links

Official website
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