Shiny's Favorite Furry Comics Read in 2025
Still writing about my favorite books I read last year! Previous posts in this series:
Shiny's Favorite Graphic Novels of 2025 Shiny's Favorite Books of 2025
EAT (2025) by Nagabe
Summary: Hot wolf professor develops crush on giant big-tiddy himbo sheep student. He also has a fetish where he wants to be eaten. Steamy romance and sex ensues.
Thoughts: Holy shit this is one of the hottest things I've ever read in my life. I am obsessed with the way Nagabe draws the furry body. The way Lufria, the wolf professor, is all lean and trim, with his horny little white eyes set in his all-black head, versus the sheep* who is insanely broad, with his fluffy bangs covering the top half of his face… I mean just looking at them, you want to watch these two fuck.
One of my favorite tropes of manga is the way that it tends to focus on small moments, which really makes it ideal for telling stories about romance. The sheep character taking his shirt off alone was enough to make me blush. The fact that it's so focused on eating and biting and predation as a kink, too, makes every little moment of a character eating a meal that much more impactful and fraught with horny meaning.
This is one long slow uncomfortable build-up to two characters having the ultimate fight-and-fuck scene, super recommend it to anyone that likes explicit gay romance comics, or anyone that wished Beastars was gayer (so, everyone that read Beastars). All of it is made even hotter by the fact that I read it from my local library and I can't actually find it available to buy anywhere online!! God dammit!!! Stop edging me!!!!!
*(I cannot find this character's name online anywhere and I read this months ago so I do not remember it weh sorry Nagabe)
A SHOW OF ROPES (2025) by Glopossum
Summary: Bumbling trans lizard girl runs into her favorite transbian BDSM streamer couple at a barista job interview. Much lesbian sex ensues.
Thoughts: Can we talk about how Glopossum has built a sci-fi utopia? Everybody has UBI and can afford to bumble around working at a coffee shop, sex work is freely broadcast online, transition is commonplace and not dramatic at all. What the fuck, I want to live in this world. More porn needs to be set in worlds like this.
I also want more stories about kink that are written like this! You know how "consent is sexy" is like, a phrase that gets thrown around and put onto tote bags a lot, but nobody seems to want to talk about /how/ to make it sexy? Well, here you fucking go. How often do you see stuff like safe words represented in such a matter of fact way in porn? It's also really funny, a favorite moment of mine is the main character noticing a plant in the couple's apartment is hung to the ceiling using a shibari ring and instantly becoming both amused and embarrassed. It's a cute moment, not dwelled on too long, and it's demonstrative of all the strengths of the writing here. It's a celebration of safe, sane, consensual kink without sacrificing any of the actual hot sex.
I actually read this at AnthroCon this year, right before I went to do a bunch of sex toy stuff with a friend for the first time, and I'm so glad that I did, it made the whole experience that much better. I love my insane hyper fantasy furry porn, but I wish there was more porn out there that was also a good model for how to do some crazy kink stuff yourself.
A TOWN CALLED COLLEGEVILLE (2025) by Clyde Kopernick
Summary: Mary is a wolf (?) girl living in a dead-end midwest town in the 70s (?), trying to get by, play in her band, and maybe find a way out of this shitty town with her girlfriend, while surrounded by shitty burnouts and also a literal murderer. No sex ensues.
Thoughts: Man, I just love the way Clyde draws. Love the tribute to old CMYK newsprint dot moire patterns and how it adds to the 70s feel of the whole story. Love the distressed typewriter-style typeface used here, too. It all lends a very classic-horror-comics feeling to the proceedings. Very Silent Hill, Twin Peaks, Twilight Zone kind of story happening here. Plus I like that the type is all really huge, it forces the dialogue to be really econimical which is something I always appreciate in a comic.
The story itself is very spare and ambiguous and meandering, and, spoiler alert, the masked killer character turns out to be more of a metaphor than anything. It's very Lynchian. I really liked the contrast of the main character, Mary, and the acid-burnout Roy, the way they're two queer kids from the same shitty place, one of them trying to escape, the other one doomed by it. They spend the story circling around each other, kind of hating each other but still intertwined. Definitely resonates if you've been gay from a small town.
BAI SE'S LOCKTOBER (2025) by Aennor
Summary: Three months' worth of images as the main character, Bai Se, tries Locktober for the first time and eventually brings his partner into it. So, so much sex ensues.
Thoughts: Furries making insane image series for Locktober or No Nut November is a well-established tradition. Balls grow to the size of their bearers’ bodies, precum cascades everywhere like a slippery geyser, hyper cocks shatter chastity cages into bits of plastic. A notable series by Dreamandnightmare ends with its main character blowing the roof off of a house with cum at the stroke of midnight.
That kind of cartoon sensibility is something furry excels at, and it deserves its place in the fandom. But Aennor goes in a more realistic direction with his Locktober series, and it hits just as hard. Instead of anatomy escalating throughout the series, what’s escalating is tension and emotion.
The dialog really shines here. Some of the most impactful scenes don’t even involve sex. In one, Bai Se is restrained while his partner cleans his chastity cage for him, gently teasing him the whole time. It’s the intimacy that really makes it hot, and focusing on it instead of fantasy elements means the reader can easily imagine themself in a similar scenario. The fact that Aennor managed to make three months worth of images is also a huge achievement. This does what the best erotica does: it makes the reader want to try the things it’s depicting.
PINKY AND PEPPER FOREVER (Special Edition, 2025) by Eddy Atoms
Summary: Pinky and Pepper are a toxic yuri puppygirl couple trying to get through art school. Disaster lesbian shenanigans ensue.
Thoughts: Pinky & Pepper has kind of been talked to death about by a bunch of comics critics way more smart and eloquent than me, so I'll keep this one brief, but if you've also heard it talked about endlessly, believe that it deserves all the hype and acclaim it's gotten.
I'm a former art school brat myself, not to mention a big gay homo who did a million stupid things related to dating nonstop for my entire 20s. So it was really cathartic to read about bratty puppy girls fumbling their way through the same things, and fail at them even harder than I did.
This is also the kind of story that fursonas exist to tell. You create an alter-ego, and suddenly you're so much more free to tell a story that's messy and doesn't have to be about your ~growth as a person~ or whatever. You can just revel in drama and theatrics if you want to, shake your characters like a chew toy and spit them out, and in doing so actually manage to get at genuine emotion and pain and heartache that maybe you couldn't reach just telling a regular story.
To say nothing of the art style, hand-drawn in a way that's both slick and DIY-feeling, reminscent of traditional tattoo styles and 90s coloring books at the same time, totally befitting of a story that's at least partially about none of your classmates and professors getting your vision, those fucking assholes.
