An effective and contemporary forbidden romance story that's sure to twist the knife deeper " we've only just begun. Read Full Review

What starts as a night of passion soon turns into a regrettable journey of fear in Casual Fling #1 by Jason Starr and Dalibor Talajic. Read Full Review

An interesting, thought-provoking story that revels in the non-traditional comics space it inhabits. Casual Fling #1 is rich with love, betrayal, and scandal all with a sense of dread mixed with empathetic curiosity. Read Full Review

I very much like how this book doesn't have any arcane or unusual bits, just a very mundane story that goes very wrong in interesting ways, even if parts of it are quite familiar. Read Full Review

It's hardly for mature readers because there's nothing mature in the content or conception of Casual Fling. Rather, it's half an idea produced before finding a purpose. Read Full Review

About 90% of the comics I purchase are within the Superhero or Horror genre. Casual Fling #1 is a bit of an anomaly in that it doesn’t fit in with any of the comics that I normally read or review.

The book follows Jennifer Ryan, the youngest attorney at an up-and-coming law firm in New York. She has two small children with an active and engaged stay-at-home husband. Based on the dialogue and exchanges between the characters it becomes clear pretty quickly that Jennifer wears the pants in this family. It’s also clear that although the marriage is stable there are underlying issues not being addressed between the two.


Things become further complicated when Jennifer meets a client, Alex whom she has chemistry and an obvious sexual attraction to. Before long there’s an affair and by the end, it appears that the entanglement will become messy, as they usually do in real life.

Casual Fling #1 isn’t the most exciting start’s to a series yet the devil is in the details. The situation presented is very real and happens in many relationships and marriages when fractures exist that aren’t addressed.

Casual Fling #1 isn’t the most exciting start’s to a series yet the devil is in the details. The situation presented is very real and happens in many relationships and marriages when fractures exist that aren’t addressed.


There are aspects of the story that I wasn’t a fan of. The Business Woman sacrificing herself and family for her career is real but it’s an overused trope across entertainment. I’d love to see a similar situation play out with a blue-collar couple but that pretty much never happens.

The art is serviceable but doesn’t do much to elevate the material here. I can see the story and art becoming more dynamic as the scenario plays out so I won’t judge too harshly here. Casual Fling #1 is primarily a setup issue for a series that will be eventually collected in a single volume.


There’s enough material here to keep one engaged if they are into drama and suspense a la Michael Douglas’s “Fatal Attraction”. There are countless variants of this story out there but I can’t recall seeing it play out in comics.

In Short: A Story story of infidelity and its fallout, the mileage may vary. more