Spent (2025)

The lightest and funniest place to finish, and a reunion if you read the strip first. Published in May 2025, this comic novel stars a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel who runs a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont with her partner, Holly, while a hit TV series adapted from her memoir about her father makes her friends envious. Those friends are the Dykes to Watch Out For cast, now middle-aged and living communally nearby. It pokes at money, greed and consumer capitalism with the strip's old op-ed bite, and it rewards knowing both Fun Home and the strip, since it jokes about each.