lurkerwithout | Sunday Trade: 2 Minicomics

Letters To An Absent Father by Mare Odomo and Girl Spy by John Allison

This week is a pair of short webcomic related minicomics. The first, Letters To An Absent Father is just a brief six-pages. Including a bonus page sketch by the author. The rest is a dozen strips featuring Ash of the Pokemon cartoon series writing brief letters to the father never seen or mentioned in the show. The strips have a sadness and poignancy to them adding an unexpected depth to the character. The original online strips...

The second minicomic is Girl Spy, an original story related to John Allison's ended Scary-go-round. Its 24 half-sized pages about Fallon, his sexy super-spy character. Of course Fallon is pretty incompetent, kept in Her Majesty's Special Services because of her ability to fill out a cat-suit. But when the Crime Pope threatens to steal Buckingham Palace and every other agent is on vacation to take advantage of low air fares Fallon is called into action. John Allison's webcomic is quirky and funny and sometimes oddly supernatural. His world is one of spies and robots and aliens and magical creatures and thieves who can steal very large buildings using only a crowbar...