I Hate Fairyland and Review

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This is Back Issue Classics, Episode 66 of Back

Issue Classics. And sadly, folks, I didn't plan

this right. Almost everything with a 66, it has

to be Star Wars, right? Well, no, not today,

because today we hate Fairyland. I am, of course,

TF2 and Mike. Joining me is Comic Revolt Dan.

Hello. Hey, how's it going? It's going, it's

going, and we are returning to Fairyland to talk

about issues three and four. Man, this comic

goes through narrators like Homer Simpson goes

through donuts. Yeah, yeah. No wonder you need

a narrator's guild, holy crap! Yeah, then there

was something else now. There's this guy who

I swear as soon as I opened issue three here

and The guy's like hello my dear reader. I'm

afraid there's a bit of a situation going on

here So today's storytelling might fall a little

below the standards of the narrator's guild nevertheless

a story I swear I hear God John I hear John Cleese

in my head. I hear basil faulty from faulty towers

So we said last time because last people remember

the last podcast we do the first podcast we did

for this the ending of issue 2 we had the the

zombie apocalypse uprising Were you surprised

me? I mean, it's continuing with the format that

we've seen for sure for the first year where

you lift leave at that, you know What seems like

an unsurmountable odds of a cliffhanger and then

obviously like it just flashes forward Maybe

10 15 minutes and it's like well that was dealt

with with with no issue Which I mean the question

is like does that type of gag get old and so

far it hasn't I thought they've kind of upped

it and it's been kind of funny each time So i've

enjoyed it. But uh, yeah, it's uh, i'm enjoying

it There's a certain format to this but I think

what we're seeing as with these two issues is

that You know scotty young establishes that That

formula, but then now it's starting to switch

already already in the third fourth issue Yeah,

it's um It's switching very well. Normally you

either have a story beat that switches too fast

or a story beat that lasts for issues and issues

and Looking at you clone saga You know that kind

of thing But this I mean Was you know like I

said last time the coolest thing about? This

comic series and a few other comic series that

I'm reading is I can't tell what the hell is

happening Next like and not that I'm gonna sit

here and try to but it's one of those things

where you know if you're watching a TV show That

you know the formula to Even if an episode ends

on it, even if a season finale ends on a cliffhanger

You can pretty much know that the main part of

the story for the next season is gonna be there

and it's gonna be fine here I have no idea What

the heck's gonna happen? So they Gertrude and

Larry Gertrude is the girl who has been stuck

in fairyland for 27 years 27 are earth years

and her little Jiminy cricket type guide larry

he uh... they have dispatched with the zombie

village um... is that a different moon in that

one panel of issue three when when when the panel

opens up and it shows the full page i think it's

the same moon just bandaged up oh it is the same

moon Oh, Scotty, that's wrong. It's so wrong.

He's got like moon bandages and stuff like that

to to overcome it. Yeah. Yeah, he's got moon

bandages, but because it's a I guess it's a waxing

crescent, I guess essentially or something, because

I used to know all that moon, moon jargon, waning,

waxing, whatever, wax on, wax off. But the way

it is, it's a it's a half moon. But the way it's

drawn, the way the face is drawn on there, it

basically looks like half his face has been blown

off. Where's John Travolta and Nicolas Cage when

you really need them? So they bring up a point

of killing the zombies, and because they're undead...

couldn't they just undead again? And they put

this thing called a scorchling, which is essentially

a maleficent red -looking dragon thing. Because

I mean, come on, look at those horns. Oh yeah,

definitely. Like I said, you see influences all

over from other fairytales and things like that,

and certainly there's no doubt that there is

a little bit of a Sleeping Beauty -esque dragoness

to that creature. Absolutely. More sleeping beauty

than Lord of the Rings more sleeping beauty than

a game of thrones for sure. Oh, yeah Have you

seen the game of chairs video going around the

Sesame Street parody? Yeah. Yeah, I saw that

and they also have they didn't they did a madman

one as well. So that's Like I am so not I don't

I don't do HBO, I'm not doing HBO just to be

able to watch that show or anything like that,

so it's one of those things where I've never

actually seen Game of Thrones, but I have several

hundred people that are within my social media

circle that always talk about the show. One of

them is my good buddy Lady Rex. She always talks

about winter is coming and I'm like... Oh god,

so I watch the Sesame Street thing and I know

I'm off topic here, but it kind of ties in. I

watch the Sesame Street thing and I'm just waiting

for a winter's coming joke. Oh god, that's so

hilarious. So as we continue in this story, Queen

Claudia goes to the witch and apparently she's

not pleased with how the... How the witches plan

didn't work because obviously Kurt and Larry

survived the zombie apocalypse And she goes to

this giant the Queen goes to this giant talking

tree Yeah, I love this little exchange they have

of basically, you know, she's trying to You know

use her authority. She just can't like she can't

get anything right Like it seems like she's just

trying to you know, basically one up this tree

and even the tree has like no respect for her

She's like, you know, no, you need to need to

give the password. You're not special. Don't

be don't mm -hmm. Don't be ridiculous All as

I can see once she gets in to see the council

as I can think of and I know this is sad and

horrible and wrong It's the Santa Claus three

folks See that's a reference you're alone on

I think I stopped after the first Santa Claus.

I'm like, I'm good. I enjoyed that movie Santa

Claus I would oh the second one. Oh See, I was

thinking of bracket Ralph, you know where they

have the meeting with all the guns. Yeah That's

was more my mind. Yeah But it because you know

you have the scary -looking clown guy you have

You know something some characters that reminded

me of some of those monster Muppets from the

Muppet show a little bit, but uh, I guess they're

not necessarily all villains They're all but

they have even Alice in Wonderland. Like I said,

it's I took again just Scottie young having a

lot of fun and being creative crazy and there's

a at the point where you have a like Ice cream

cone that's alive. Like you just looks yeah that

that was awesome that the ice cream cone thing

is just epic and cool and I absolutely I just

now notice I didn't notice it earlier but I noticed

it now right before you said it like wait the

ice cream cone is alive oh that's hilarious so

she essentially we get the exposition of how

because Gertrude is still a guest in fairyland

she can't the Queen can't kill her and she hatches

a plan to bring in someone new, which will, you

know, that person will find the key, which will

then, you know, negate Gertrude being able to

find the key, which will then allow Gertrude

to become a lifetime citizen, and the Queen can

kill her, essentially. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this

is what I think we're entering into Act 2 here

for the story, and... we suddenly now there are

stakes about to be established because you know,

there's a threat that we've seen that Gertrude

pretty much is almost like this invincible terminator

that can't be stopped. But the one thing that

could go wrong is that she get to be stuck in

Fairyland, which would be, you know, her the

worst thing for her possible. So. Absolutely.

And that's, you know, that's that's the Queen's

plan. And the funny thing is, even between the

first two issues and now, I know they've said

that Gertrude and Larry are on the quest to find

the key, but everything that's happened, because

it's been so long since she's been attempting

to find this, it just seems like they're on a

never -ending adventure. I mean... I keep wondering

when's you know one of the cowardly lion and

the tin man and the scarecrow are gonna show

up. Yeah, and it's Which we'll get into with

that which issue number four it does kind of

seem endless and talking about endless There's

a good sequence within this a good time -lapse

sequence where you know, she falls from When

the bridge from the bridge and then she's just

laying there and then you see Larry kind of Almost

go through with this entire new life where he

built the house as a kid Gets divorced burns

his house down. I thought that was a rather hilarious

It's almost like go ahead. Sorry I like the panel

right before it starts where he says Great nothing

like a little rain to wake to make a life A miserable

life a bit more miserable. Thanks weather king.

You're welcome And then we go through the the

sequence like you said It's great and then she

begins to grow a face beard of all her crazy

hair, which is pretty funny So like yeah rumples

still skin, obviously, it's it's it's a good

it's a good little unexpected twist Yeah, it

is All right, and then it takes all this time

and then someone starts singing and she finally

Says something if you don't start if you don't

stop this thing I'm going to make sure you don't

live long enough to get married and raise a family

So it ain't me And we meet the new... We meet

the girl Pharrell Williams? Sorry. Maybe. I really

feel that Happy should be playing behind our

voices right about now, folks. So we meet the

Queen's new guest. Her name is Happy. And she's

a blue -haired girl who kind of reminds me of

something out of the My Little Pony comics. Yeah,

yeah, that's a good comparison. Also, like, Dora

the Explorer came to my mind just with, like,

the super huge... Well, I guess Dora the Explorer

doesn't really have huge eyes, but it's just

the antithesis of a great... She just, like,

has that look on her, super happy, almost like

anime -ish. size eyes and and of course called

happy just uh you know rub it in just a little

bit but this is i love their again this interaction

between these two just the all these two polar

opposite people kind of going back and forth

again a lot of visual comedy with that of the

you know We talked about the shared beard and

you see it get shaved off and she has all those

little like uh bandages off her face and everything

It's just there's just so much going on in each

panel There's like within a lot of visual jokes

that like you can that you can miss and then

honestly, this is the second time I read this

and there's a lot of you can miss on the first

run because There's a lot going on in the background

a lot of like smart jokes that you can easily

miss a lot of references So it's kind of good

to watch it again The the coolest thing about

this the story beat with the new character with

the new character happy here is It took her a

whole day To get to where Gertrude and Larry

are whereas Gertrude's been at this for 27 Earth

years And the girl has already gotten to where

she is in a whole day And that of course sends

Gertrude into a rage I love how Scotty does does

the rage faces like last time when we did one

of these I took a screen cap of Larry when he

was exploding from some sort of sauna I said

something about it's going to be a long night

or something or other and you have a panel here

with after Gert Gert is like you've only been

here a day is like the Just this whole I just

love the rage faces. I think that's awesome Yeah,

I guess the thing that always reminds me of is

like a looney tunes as style to it it just Mm

-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess what

question would be, you know, did you at all think

more gore with this, especially when you're down

to the last panel? This one is a little bit different

because we're talking about starting this where

this issue's come out, what she looks like, you

know, she's moving her eyes, her arms are basically

off, she's a leg that's entirely off, and this

is when she gets kind of pulled down by a rainbow.

It's rather gruesome. No, not really because

I figured that because they've already stated

that People can die in Fairyland, but they generally

don't Normally, I mean people have died but like

okay you take the first the first killing Gertrude

ever did which was she shot the moon or she axed

them or whatever she killed the moon the moon's

still there he's very badly injured but he's

still there I mean yeah I don't expect the zombies

to come back from being set on fire um but I

don't know I didn't like it was shocking But

it wasn't shocking in a way of, Oh my God, where's

the story going to go now? I just assumed that

Scottie is going to have the two of them play

out. And it's kind of like, you know, a race

for the prize, kind of like, you know, scavenger

hunt dealy thing. I thought that's what they

were going to turn it into, but yeah, that, that

final page is, is very creepy in this. And then

it's the coolest thing. And I, I, People really

do need to read the next page, where it says,

you know, I hate Fairland number four. I just

love Scottie's writing on here where he's like,

see what I did there? I killed Gert. I kept making

fun of you for thinking I actually kill her.

And then I did it. I killed her. Whoot. This

is coming out of... Wait, this is coming out

all wrong. I didn't really kill anyone. I just

mean that I thought up the death of one of the

most beloved characters in comics and carried

it out on the page, and none of you saw it coming.

I do feel bad for robbing you of Gert, your favorite

character of all time. We all know that in comics,

there's no coming back from the dead. Never,

ever, ever, ever, ever. Especially in the very

real world of Fairyland. I love how he just just

is poking that that To be honest Marvel schtick

and DC schtick Issue number three was really

fun. The whole series to this point has been

really fun Did you have a favorite scene out

of issue three? Actually, one of my favorite

moments is this one small little panel. I just

love the way it looks and love the little joke.

It's with her walking away from the explosion

and she's making a comment about like, hey, I'm

trying to walk away in slow motion here from

an explosion. And she's in silhouette. And I

just thought it was kind of funny because it's

something I didn't expect. But that was probably

my favorite individual small panel. But besides

that, the other thing that kind of caught my

eye was the the interaction between the queen

and the great, what is it called, the great bark

tree, which was that one again. Oh, the tree.

Yeah. So those are the moments that stood out

to me. Yeah. Oh, the tree, what is it? It reminded

me of something the other day. I don't remember

now. Something came up. but uh but yeah for me

it you know like you said the slow motion walk

away i don't think this could ever happen and

i hope to god cartoon network doesn't do it i

hope if scotty did do an animated series of this

it would have to be something other than cartoon

network it'd have to be like late night or netflix

or something because i need to see her in animated

form walking away doing the slow motion walk

away from the explosion because that's just awesome

yeah i would love to see like this i think could

translate well to like an animated cartoon uh

it's already like there already i mean there's

there's not much you need to change i mean of

course it couldn't be on like you know during

the day for kids you'd have to figure out a way

to advertise it and find it to work maybe an

adult swim show i guess i don't know i don't

know if they still do Yeah, they still do adult

swim but uh, yeah, I overall thought it was very

solid issue They've kind of all been good. Like

my biggest worry coming into this was like, okay,

this is a good You know one shot maybe two episodes

but two issues but three issues in and I'm like,

okay This actually has me this probably left

me at the most Positive looking forward because

it does seem like I'm not really sure where this

is going now This has a lot of different options

of where this could go and now there's a new

element and like I said for the first time we

have really huge stakes because there's a chance

that she could be stuck in fairyland and this

is type of comic I feel like would not end in

a happy ending like I'm not I can see it actually

work not working out for Gucci's in the end so

that has me super invested and you know, just

Brought it up to a new level for me Yeah, so

we get to issue four here, and we start out with

Mr. Grubbins, a new narrator, who Larry promptly

kills. I love the little twist. It's been heard

the entire time, and you think, oh, well, Gertrude's

not there. Maybe he'll survive. Nope, he's dead.

Right in the head. Right in the head. And no,

she survived, but like you said, she's... God

she kind of walked. She's walking like bizarro

in this panel Bizarro or like bizarro? Zombie

fighter zombie. No, I mean bizarro from Superman

bizarro. Yeah, he he does have turned in feet

and yeah, so So we get this and wait Larry sprays

her with some sort of magical dust And she's

healed. Okay. I think that goes back to the comment

you talked about with, you know, Scottie Young,

the way he's adding it, and that is very often

when a comic is like, you'll get someone who

is hurt and they magically feel better, or it

makes me think actually of the movie Last Action

Hero, where there's a scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger's

like covered in tar, and you think, wow, he's

gonna be, how's that gonna happen? Then he gets

a towel and clears himself off in like a couple

minutes, like a... 30 seconds and it's just that

idea of you know, someone is You know hurt or

really badly badly injured and then in the next

scene or sequence. They're perfectly fine It's

as if magic picks the pixie dust without on them

So that was my assumption is him again commenting

on how death is treated in comics and how injury

itself is treated in comics Absolutely, and it's

a pretty funny funny comment So she gets this

vanity gate because she needs to go see another

friend of hers and we go see the the queen Who

was having a hair day? all these different hairstyles

just Just crazy Excuse me and then somebody pulls

her through the mirror Talk about through the

looking glass. Holy crap. I think this is the

first time we really saw these two interact We

you know, yeah, it's we've seen The queen kind

of been trying to uh, uh set other people and

try to kill her But seeing them face to face

was rather fun seeing and this goes on for a

few panels Which is unlike this comic because

usually it goes seeing the scene rather quickly,

but this goes on for a few pages Which is maybe

the first the longest conversation is the the

series has had so far and it's worth it though

I think they've been building up to this moment

and it finally happens and certainly pays off

I mean it's seeing these two people that absolutely

hate each other and it's rather again a lot of

great visual gags and like you mentioned with

the room of just all the mirrors and everything

which is great it's almost like matrix meets

Alice in Wonderland or something with the white

background yeah or yeah or you know Alice in

Wonderland meets The Flash because The Flash

does have Mirror Master yeah there you go so

they meet up and yeah you're right they you know

first of all they've only ever done like some

sort of visual gag he's only I think Scott he's

only ever done some sort of visual gag where

they have some sort of visual communication but

actually the two of them being in the same room

at the same time that hasn't happened until now

and she's you know the two of them are going

on and on and and Gert is going on about how

why is the other girl here and whatever else

and and the Queen says you know they just get

in this giant giant fight and the Queen does

attempt to destroy her Except that obviously

it doesn't work. But hey the Queen had to let

off some sort of steam Yeah, and again the art

Scotty's art is great in this. Oh god, if we

could get to talk to him I can die and go to

heaven. Yeah I just I just ain't going to fairyland.

I'll tell you that this is not a place I want

This is one of those things where it's a nice

place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live

there. I love how the Queen's hair is used to

like you see when she gets mad and uses her powers

it becomes like darker and almost like lady Frankenstein

ask wife of Frankenstein ask and yeah, she uses

her powers and I've been talking about it happen

knowing a fact I like the image of her like blasting

Gertrude with the with the With her powers and

then she's like this skeleton a silhouette of

her laughing which is it's creepy in all the

best ways possible, but it's oh, yeah Yeah, it's

just so crazy And and as we mention to like what

like we it was established last issue like her

shoes has been here for 20 some years having

no luck and then and then we see happy's like

attempt at it and all like how Like, amazing

she is at this quest, you know? It's like when

you play a video game and you stink at it, you

try it forever, and then someone comes along

and, like, they pick up the controller and, like,

beat it in, like, one sitting. And you're like,

what? I've been doing this forever. And then

this is kind of what happens here. And I think

it's because Happy is still a little girl. I

mean, Gertrude technically is 27 years old. I

mean, she's that's not old, folks, but in fairyland

standards, that's pretty fluff and old. Yeah.

And I think, too, it's she I don't know. She

is smarter, maybe more clever and more aware

of how to play these games and Gertrude. You

know, she maybe come up with the. The type of

you see how those like, you know, like I said

like blues clues or whatever where you have to

solve the puzzles and it seems like she Clearly

is much better at it than Gertrude would think

it's more so self -absorbed that she can't she

can't figure these things out because she just

kind of loses her temper and ends up just shooting

the guy rather than trying to solve the puzzle

if you just shoot them in the face because It's

it's a quicker quicker resolution that way Yeah

Except it's gonna put her down the wrong path,

you know, and and that's the cool thing, you

know, like we mentioned earlier in issue three

about you asked me Do we think that it's gonna

now just follow happy instead of Gert and that's

why I said no I think it's gonna end up being

a rat race kind of scavenger hunt thing and we

see that happen here in issue four after the

scene where Where Gert says Sure, it will besides

happy is new to this place It's not all gonna

be so easy for her and then we see happy's journey

and how easy it is For her so I thought that

was really cool and then it switches back to

Gert and Larry and how tough it is for them to

do all this stuff Yeah We see her true. She ends

up going down this different path and I love

the the juxtaposition of happy's like Adventure

where you see she's like everyone's rather smiling

and happy. She's like working with some weird

-looking pillows and Stuffed dolls and then Gertrude

ends up going into like the the dark aspect of

it with you know modified trees and it's much

more like gruesome like Huge creatures with gigantic

boogers coming out of their head. It's just I

don't know. I love I just it's insane like Sometimes

you don't expect you don't know what to expect

with a Kong because of the plot with this You

don't know what to expect just because of this

the the world the imagination and just the images

of what you'll see It's something different every

time which is makes it a lot of fun to read Looking

at the page with where they say scale the peaks

of the snoring snotty. Yeah Just realized she's

climbing up boogers. Oh, yeah, it's amazing Nice

it is amazing, but it's just nice green color.

It's got a smell great and the creatures have

gigantic warts and pimples on them. They all

look like Go to you know And then we get to Dr.

Wiley's Fortress. I'm sorry. This isn't Mega

Man. I swear as soon as I saw the skull castle

I thought it was Dr. Wiley's Fortress. Yeah,

I can see that. That's a good one page splash

page. It is very much so because again each of

these areas folks that we're talking about in

this issue as they go through like we said the

you know the the peaks of the snoring snotty's

or you know the forest we still have to survive

the balling fields and the balling fields it's

nothing but balling babies they're crying all

over the place in the entire field so each of

these areas has had its various things and with

the skull castle there's giant skull clouds coming

up around behind and beside it which is again

very very cool so she dispatches of the guard

at the castle door and then they go into the

castle and they see this giant skull knight looking

thing okay it was essentially death I assume

yeah I guess or some sort of just like the you

know if the Queen is the the power of good. He

seems to be more of the controller of the evil

magic that is in this land. So I guess Sauron,

maybe like a Sauron Skeletor type of creature.

Yeah. The only problem is, and I think Scotty

did this on purpose, the various various closeups

of this character, like the panel where he says,

I do. It's quite the plot twist. And then the

two panels after that, again, I know everything,

like all the stuff. That giant skull on his face,

it's the Punisher. It's what it is. It's the

Punisher skull. Yeah, I could see that. It's

a little longer, but it has the same... Yeah,

it is a little longer, but I'm saying on those

two panels specifically, it's essentially a long

version of the Punisher skull. I just thought

it was so cool. I like how she has to ask Larry,

what the hell is a caveat? Because that's, I

mean, you think about it, she's so only had like

a third grade educator, you know, even that at

this point. So those big words, she's on a big,

you know, doesn't know that she doesn't know

how to use the middle finger. Is that something

you, you, you pick up on rather quickly? Every

child picks up on the middle finger because parents

forget sometimes and use it. So, um, and This

one ends with a super giant monster thing Yeah,

again a good it's almost like a Turn on the alien

creature that has something come out of its mouth

where you like oh looks like a Crazy teddy bear,

but he realized that's really attached to this

gigantic crazy creature with multiple eyes and

legs and it's like a gigantic monster but on

that same panel to on top of the page like again

like A lot of influences the way he does the

face with it To show like the motion of him of

her falling down this gigantic shaft It so reminds

me of red and stimpy just the the yeah the outline

the the way the tongues are done Just like it's

it's so like a runs to be faced to me. So It

is but it's like and that was the other thing

I was kind of worried about when we started doing

this once I read the first two issues was how

grotesque Scotty's art, how grotesque he was

gonna make certain parts of the art because of

that Ren and Stimpy. I'm just so anti -Ren and

Stimpy style. Like just that specific cartoon

style for that specific cartoon. But here, I

don't mind it at all. I thought it was gonna

gross me out, but it honestly doesn't. And yeah,

that ending. I wonder if Scotty's ever gonna

put in a blue plate special joke from Spaceballs.

That would be awesome. I don't know. And in the

back here for issue four we have the various

alternate covers. Yeah, I really like the anime

-esque one, like it's that's kind of cool. I'm

glad he doesn't do that style, but it's a good

little one -off again with the fractured mood

in the background. That that one was probably

my favorite of all the different alternate ones

though The the last one with their punching a

star and it bleeding is also pretty great Yeah,

that's I think that's my favorite because the

Sun and the moon are both crying Yeah, that's

hilarious yeah, I mean that one image probably

tells gives you exactly what to expect this comic

it's like yeah, if you if you find that image

interesting and hilarious, then that's this is

a book you want to read so yeah it really really

is i'm really enjoying this i absolutely love

this series it's such a fun series and again

as i said earlier you don't know what to expect

out of it at all yeah it's it is that's it that's

like Keyword for it's fun. It's a visual feast.

It's light. It doesn't us. It's a quick read.

It's it's just it's highly enjoyable It's I mean,

we haven't really I haven't had much negative

to say about it because I think it you know It

recognizes what it is it stays within its framework,

but it does try to do new things every time I

feel like okay We're kind of getting formulaic

here. It's something new happens to change that

and here again This is we're adding kind of closing

in on this last arc here I think the next issue

is the last issue of this specific arc or we're

near there. So After so I'm really looking forward

to next week to talk about next time we talk

about the closing of this first story and seeing

You know where to go after this but it is it's

a great comic. It's it's original and but still

I think has influences and I love how it comments

both on just Comics alone as well as other aspects

of just entertainment at large See, this is a

way for and really reading this series should

be a lesson in any art or writings class or writing

design school whatever you want to call it for

anyone that wants to get into comics as far as

go about creating your own characters you can

use all kinds of tropes that you want but with

what he's doing so far with this series i mean

he's had several different tropes and like you

said he does poke fun at the comic comic book

industry i mean the whole thing i read earlier

about the whole you know death in comics i mean

it's It's been going on for 70 plus years. You

know, so it's just one of those things where

he's created his own story. We don't know where

it's like, I like, like I said before, I have

no idea where, where it's going to go. Like I

could have sworn we were going to see more of

more of happy and issue four than what we did.

I liked what we saw over. And I'm sure, you know,

once we get to next time in five and six, you

know, we'll see more. Um, but I'm just like this

series is just one of the best I've read from

from image in comics I mean I would say it's

if I was making a like a I would probably have

to be a top five since it's a short list for

original like like creator own comics it'd probably

be in the top three so far because There's not

too much else that I've read creator own that

I've personally read that I could recommend that

high on a top five list But yeah, I mean this

this series is just so fun For issues three and

four. What are you gonna rate each of them zero

to five? I'm gonna say consistent here for the

most part the last the first two are gay fours

out of fives And this is the same thing for me

again solid four is really good It's consistent

in consistent in a good way. So four to five

sure both of them for me Yeah, that's the same

with me. I'm gonna give issue three a four and

issue four a four out of five as well. Absolutely

love it. We're gonna take a quick break. You're

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