plaidbrarian's review
4.0
A cute "precocious imaginative kid with bizarre sidekicks" strip that lives in the space between Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes featuring a girl, her robot, her monkey, her penguins, her friends, her family, and sometimes fictionalized versions of the cartoonist and Alton Brown. It's fun, it's nostalgic, and as you read the reasons it came into being toward the book's end, a bit therapeutic, too. I hope we get more.
graypeape's review
4.0
A kind of quiet comic strip, not so much a laugh-out-loud comic as a makes-you-smile-with nostalgia sort of thing. I enjoyed it, it's got a hook to it, sucked me right in. While there is no explanation for why Alison and her parents live with a robot, a monkey, and five penguins, they all seem to accept it like it's no big deal, so I did too. I'm sure kids would enjoy this strip, but I feel like adults are as much the intended audience as kids; there are many 80s and 90s pop culture references, and the kid stuff reminds me of when I was a kid, so much nostalgia there. This wants to be another Calvin & Hobbes (at least, that's the feeling I got). It's not quite there yet, but it's getting there. 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.
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