davidwright's review
4.0
Flukes & Flames - the Magic of Dollies be a terrible ting! A world all its own, faintly familiar, constructed of childhood stuff, and with great utterations, of which my favorite is probably the one about the ants being driven 'Candy Mad' by a huge gingerbread monkey intended as a gift for Anne Louise.
anthroxagorus's review
Not really a sock monkey person. .Looked weird, came across in a comic shop. It was weird, will probably be weirder in the next issues.
hypops's review
2.0
Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey comics show the lighter, gentler side of his work (in contrast to his Maakies comics).
As with all of his comics, “The ‘Inches’ Incident” is beautifully drawn and oozes with late 19th/early 20th c. nostalgia. It wears its influences on its sleeve, and its visual pleasures and light-hearted humor feed into its many old-timey references. If I knew nothing about Millionaire or his comics, I wouldn’t have been shocked if someone had handed this book to me and said that it was a children’s classic from a much earlier time.
Whether or not you dig this comic will have everything to do with how much you share in Millionaire’s nostalgia. For me, while I recognize the impressive craft on display, this doesn’t do much for me. But I found it in a used book shop for a few bucks, so no harm no foul.
As with all of his comics, “The ‘Inches’ Incident” is beautifully drawn and oozes with late 19th/early 20th c. nostalgia. It wears its influences on its sleeve, and its visual pleasures and light-hearted humor feed into its many old-timey references. If I knew nothing about Millionaire or his comics, I wouldn’t have been shocked if someone had handed this book to me and said that it was a children’s classic from a much earlier time.
Whether or not you dig this comic will have everything to do with how much you share in Millionaire’s nostalgia. For me, while I recognize the impressive craft on display, this doesn’t do much for me. But I found it in a used book shop for a few bucks, so no harm no foul.
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