>>11343929One thing I like about this comic is that it recontextualizes the characters from the Wotch. There the jocks are just one dimensional assholes and exist to be turned into equaly one dimensional nice cheerleaders, and nobody misses their old selves, and they are totally oblivious to the transformation and their lives get better and etc.
But then you look at the spin off, and the cheerleaders are super fleshed out with their own quirks, dramas and interests. Their lives are not perfect, they are fighting abandonament issues, or the loss of loved ones, their own ego and etc, so being turned into girls didn't make their lives perfect. It also ends up fleshing their male selves by proxy, because things like Alex being ignored by her parents or Sam's dead mother are things that would plague them either as guys or girls.
From the point of view of story I think it's very interesting. At first you get the feeling that the transformation - that most of them are oblivious to, as they got identity deathed - solves their issues, but you look deeper and notices that no... it didn't. The struggles they face are probably very similar. The genderswaping acts like a butterfly effect, but they don't stop being the same person with the same base personality going throuth similar hardships.
"Despite everything its still you", is a super cool angle to go with reality alteration in stories, we don't see that often in our area.