Ian Carney and Woodrow Phoenix have written a love letter to the late, lamented cultural playground of Saturday morning cartoons. While it has a simple story at its core, and perhaps even a silly one, it's told extremely well and doesn't ever insult your intelligence. Many of the current "nostalgia" titles could take a lesson from the care and craft Carney and Phoenix have put into telling this story, because the result makes something far better than simply reliving childhood memories. Sugar Kat is suitable for children and adults. The action is intense and occasionally kind of gross, but this is the sort of tolerable terror that made cartoons like Scooby Doo or Bullwinkle and Rocky really special.
Where's It At, Sugar Kat? The Thin Of The Land Is available on Amazon, and if you like it, you should also try the appropriately named Sugar Buzz. Carney and Phoenix first started their tale of the Kat sisters in this anthology comic, and their other short stories here are similar in style and theme. Sugar Buzz: Live At Budokan and its companion volume, Sugar Buzz: Your Ticket To Happiness both showcase the multi-layered storytelling abilities of these two phenomenal artists. You can get your nostalgia fix without all the requisite baggage, and if you order them from Amazon, you won't even have to think about cows or pushy retail clerks.
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1 - Natalie Bennett
This article has been selected for syndication to Advance.net, which is affiliated with newspapers around the United States. Nice work!