I'm starting to think that the reason that I haven't read any Western comics is that they're really pretty unremarkable. Or, the ones that I have are, anyway. So far. (Could I vague that up, do you think?)
I will give the artist of today's issue respect for the facial expressions they manage with cartoon chipmunk physiology. But aside from that, the stories are pretty run of the mill for these characters. They get into mischief. Hijinks ensue.
Okay, one other interesting thing. In the first story, the duo refer to their forest brethren with the honorific "brer," a reference to the Uncle Remus stories, one must think. And that honorific, "Br'er" is short for "brother," and has origins in African Rabbit trickster stories. So there's a weird connection there, though given the use to which we put creatures in funny animal comics, is it really so surprising that there are funny animals in our sacred stories?
More to come...
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