He also is terrified of being checked: he tends to panic and assume the fetal position on the ice, to the consternation of his teammates and coaches. His initial expectations are quickly dashed-his new team has lamentable hygiene, the players rough-and-tumble sorts, unlike Bitty.
The freshman year starts as Bitty is in his dorm room, excited to be at college. Interspersed throughout Bitty’s narrative are short interjections (called “Hockey Shit”) from Holster and Ransom, who explain hockey terminology and culture to the nonprofessional reader. He also must make friends with his new teammates, Shitty (no one knows his real name) the duo Holster and Ransom Jack, the captain and son of a hockey legend, who has a lot to prove Lardo, the diminutive female team manager and Coach Hall. His hobbies include vlogging and baking pies, and although he played hockey in high school, he is terrified of getting checked. Bitty is a former competitive ice-skating junior champion from a small town in Georgia, who attends Samwell University in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship. The webcomic runs for all four years of Bitty’s time at university the first volume contains the first half of the series (freshman and sophomore years), with the second volume* to cover the other half of the series (junior and senior years).
Written and illustrated by Ngozi Ukazu, the coming-of-age story follows freshman Eric “Bitty” Bittle as he navigates the college hockey landscape and comes to terms with his identity as a young gay man. Check, Please: #Hockey (2018) is the first of two published volumes of a long-running sports webcomic by the same name that started in 2013.
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