Feb. 2nd, 2009
Sunday Trade: Token
Feb. 2nd, 2009 03:29 pm
Token by Alisa Kwitney & Joelle Jones, with lettering by Steve Wands
Is still Sunday somewhere. In the secret hearts of all good children perhaps...
So this was a happy find. I'd thought it had gotten canceled when the minx line went down. Which would have been a shame as its a very nice story. Nothing too different, more "teen girl comes of age" that was typical of the line. Kwitney and Jones' take focuses on Shira Spektor a fifteen-year old Jewish girl growing up in Miami. She's being raised by her widowed lawyer father with the help of her grandmother and great-aunt. Shira's a very zaftig looking girl who is, of course, the outsider at her school. She's awkward and shy, trying to cope with her father starting to date his secretary and the fact that she's never even been kissed. Which is where ne'er do well Rafael Wilson enters the picture...
Like I said, its very standard teen drama. But very well crafted standard teen drama...