The funny pages and I have had a falling out in recent years. Maybe not that recent. I had a paper in my hands every day the last week and there was only one (just ONE!) that could be counted as actually ‘funny.’ The rest were Hagar the Horrible. Emphasis on Horrible. So unfunny. That’s why I like the internet, it has funny comics!
‘Puck’ is a weekly Webcomic strip put out by ElectricGecko (real name withheld) that has been in circulation since the late 90’s; with the exception of a hiatus so ElectricGecko could pursue other interests. He’s recently rebooted ‘Puck’ and has been enjoying a renewed success with it ever since. And I can see why, it’s funny!
There are about 3 ‘advertisements’ for Aurora before chapter one begins. They look very pretty in color but I wish they would have hinted at the substance of the comic. For me it is not enough to merely see something pretty, I need to see a preamble of the peril the girl is going to have to face.
First things first, the artwork. Beauty! The joint work of creators Samantha Whitten and Stacey Pefferkor and featuring their darling main character, Meela. Meela is a charming kid with wolf-like attributes and an unerring tenacity and sweetness of spirit. You will love her immediately. She’s on her own, reeling from the loss of her brother and barely surviving when our second main character, the bounty hunter called Feral, kicks his business right through her attempts at lonely survival.
