I've had my eye on Spy Island for over half a year, now, but it was only a few weeks ago that I realized who the creative team is. Chelsea Caine, Elise McCall, and Lia Miternique are the creators of 2018's Man Eaters series from Image comics. Man Eaters is unlike anything else across the industry, tying multiple media types into the art, and using ludicrous examples to explain relevant, real-world points. Female forward, female driven, and female positive, the team behind Man Eaters gave us a story that was fun, creative, and poignant. In finding out they are the same team behind Spy Island, my resolve to follow the series only grew.
While I don't think the level of social commentary will be quite as pointed as Man Eaters' was, Spy Island is bound to be a fantastically enjoyable adventure. With the tagline labeling it "A Bermuda Triangle Mystery," Spy Island is perfect for anyone who's a fan of witty murder mysterious, spy movies, or just generally has a sense of humor. I can't oversell this one, Continue Reading to find out more, as it happens! Spoiler Alert!
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Issue #1, Sept. 2--AVAILABLE NOW!
This issue is some of the most genuine fun I've had in a comic. I love being able to take in the details of the art, which is somewhat multi-media. Every inch of the comic is a part of the story, from the front cover, to the inside of the first page, to the in-world ad on the back cover. Its a delightful and uninterrupted experience to read. There isn't a single joke in the issue, but every page is packed with what I'm going to call "smirky" humor. Its the total combination of smart, dry, bawdy, and ironic humor that makes up Cain and Co's now infamous style of comic creating. Its clearly a multi-person effort, with every moment meticulously thought out to the last detail. The first few pages of Spy Island were a great preview to the tone of the rest of the series. We start with a gentle narration on the benefits of sea water, while watching panels of a Speedo'd swimmer going to laps in the ocean. Suddenly, without change in narration, the man is pulled under by unseen forces. We see the narrator, a woman in scuba gear, as she continues on about the benefits of swimming in the ocean. As she narrates, the man is helplessly pulled deeper and deeper. Without changing her casual tone, she switches to what she see's as the biggest drawback to swimming in the ocean: it takes a lot longer to drown someone in saltwater. On the following page, its revealed that our narrator is the mysterious force pulling the swimmer below the surface. She goes on the explain the "why" of this inconvenience as if it were a simple gardening tip, checking the passage of time casually on her watch. Finally, the man fully succumbs. The scuba diver leaves his body behind, making note that the the reason for high numbers of pool drownings is actually lazy assassins. On a bright pink page of the comic, the dead man floats off, eyes open, surrounded by 1950's reminiscent colorful bubbles. His killer notes, as she swims away, that she's would never take such a shortcut. As she clamors back onto the beach and into a cocktail dress, the reader is given a plethora of narration regarding herself as well as their setting. This is the Bermuda Triangle, and everything you've ever heard about it is true. Crazy weather, unusual wildlife, unexpected natural disasters, unexplained events, and even the most colorful of people are all common occurrences across the island. As for herself, a short montage of impressive feats are written off as simply past jobs of hers, and this is just another phase of her career. She continues to narrate as she walks into a party full of people from every powerful organization across the globe. The characters in the room are labelled for the reader's sake, and the labels themselves are another joke, identifying members of the KGB, PETA, the IRS, Google, and among many others, a lone masked man simply called Doug (and, worth mentioning, a creation from Man Eaters, the Ministry of Trouble). The room is a beautiful splash page, and every detail is worth soaking in. The art on the walls is actual art from the real world, elegantly pasted into their comic one. The outfits of each person are individual and often related to their organization label in some creative way. When the narrator is approached by the man previously labelled as MI-6, Cain isn't afraid of uncomfortable silences and awkward dialogue. This interaction also sees the first in a number of instances of abrupt sexual humor, as well, when the waiter steps in to say in large, bold letters the name of their drink--the Orgasm. The narrator, a complicated woman perhaps known as Nora, takes them both, and wanders outside the party to a backyard pool. As she encounters a French mime, we are given more insight into the Island itself, and the complicated relationships between those who frequent it. At some point here, a photographed letter fills a whole page, regarding the mission of that night's gathering. It was a fundraiser for raising awareness of mermaid attacks. That is, mermaids attacking humans. This is Bermuda Triangle--of course they have evil mermaids! Back at the party, Nora returns to the party and her British hunk, apparently called Harry. Their relationship is indeed complicated, as they discuss his attempts to seduce some Countess or another. Cain returns to her abrupt adult humor after a conga line bursts through the scene, and Harry proportions Nora. Following another period of silence, she agrees, but "only because you're good at it." A full page of partly undressed Harry, featuring Union Jack underwear, is followed by a page featuring only the florescent green and purple word SEX. While this is an extremely simple way to get the point across, the choice of imagery from the proposition to that three-lettered page had me in stitches. The next day, we see the one moment of interest to those who live on the island--the weekly arrival of new inhabitants. This week, Nora has more of a reason to show up than boredom, as she tells Harry her sister is among the arrivals. Bringing light to another hilarious creation, her sister is a "cryptozoologist", who follows mermaid attacks. Nora suggest blankly that if her sister is there, they must have a mermaid problem. With a number of plot threads to follow, I have to remind myself that Spy Island is only a four-issue mini-series. I'm incredibly excited to see where Cain and her team bring us in the next three issues, as they've proven beyond a doubt how much information they are capable of creatively stuffing in a single issue. The art and coloring of Spy Island is fantastic in themselves. From the stunning array of sunset colors on water in the beginning, to the heart-shaped spirals of the French mime's cigarette smoke, to the horrific mermaid murder scene that wraps up the final page, every bit of art in Spy Island is a gem to behold. This is a creative team that is confident in themselves and works together like perfect clockwork, and I can't wait to see what the rest of the series brings. Spy Island #2 comes out in over a month on October 7th, so go out and pick up your copy of the first issue! Only more good things to come from this team.
Issue #2, Oct. 7--AVAILABLE NOW
My first thought in picking up the second issue of Spy Island was that I can’t get enough of the cover-to-cover format of this team’s comics. they did the same sort of thing on Man Eaters' 12-issues, including fake marketing, advertisements, government projects and literally a whole world of graphic design, pacing every issue from cover to cover.
Before I get into talking about the series of events in the issue, I want to point out another incredible spot of excellence in the art team. In every individual comic I've read from them, there is no wasted space or time from any member of the creative team. Every interaction between characters adds backstory or explains the relationship between them more. Every part of Nora’s inner monologues and narration has purpose, matched specifically with the art of each of the coinciding panels. The art and design takes over 100% of the pages, leaving constant details to consume. Every minute inch of Spy Island has been meticulously thought out and purposely placed, creating one of the most satisfying comics I’ve ever taken in. The second issue starts off immediately with a map of the island, a graphic designer’s wet dream. Packed full of the most random and often mythological-themed destinations and locations, the map shows the island to be shaped like a human skull, with some surrounding minor islands. From here, it goes into one of Nora's inner monologues, this time about mermaid tooth hunting. The art shows a young boy in a notably ridiculously colored sailor outfit, no doubt a tourist on the island, scouring the beach at night. As the narration discusses the do’s and don’ts of mermaid tooth hunting, the boy pictured in the art coincidingly does exactly what the narration warns against, muttering to himself in German as he goes. The multi-media format of the storytelling is delightful to come across, time after time. Photos of shark teeth, labeled as "mermaid teeth" as well as “not mermaid teeth” in small print below, add more essential dry humor to the goings-on of the plot. Whether this is a simple moment of honest humor or a statement on the existence of mermaids versus sharks in this universe, we’ve yet to know for sure. As the boy continues to scour the beach, he passes by a variety of valuable objects in various degrees of ridiculousness, such as a Faberge egg, a ring of invisibility, the Irish Crown of Jewels, and a 1787 doubloon, all going along with the dry humor of the team in charge. As the boy finally finds his mermaid tooth in a receding wave and begins to celebrate, Nora’s narration turns suddenly ominous. Never turn your back on the ocean, she says, as a mermaid comes out to snatch the boy up. Later, a woman in the same ridiculous colors as the boy comes running down the beach, calling in German for her son, Claus. This scene that serves as intro to the issue ends with the dry, bland note that the island gets a lot of German tourists, as the woman cries for her missing child. This does make me think that our Nora has lived on the island for some time, and considers it a somewhat permanent home, if she calls the locals “we.” After an ominous, horror movie reminiscent title page over red-tinted water, the issue properly starts off with a party. Through a combination of Nora's narration and cleverly curated local signage, we learn that very week, the Bermuda Triangle Chamber of Commerce throw a part for the tourists called Call into the Kraken. The Chamber runs the tourism industry of the island, and their name can be seen on mutli-format art throughout the issue. A small, sarcastic “editorial note” at the bottom of the page informs the reader that all straws pictured in the issue are made of paper. As the party begins, Nora greets her sister Connie, a new arrival that week on the island. Their conversation is terse, clearly communicating the women are not historically on good terms. When Nora comes out with all the answers about why Connie must be there, she’s accused of going through her specifically noted half-sister’s purse. She did, and there’s another photo-page of the contents to prove it. The contents are all real-world items, including a passport, travel visa, and a gun, offering the reader with foreshadowing on Connie's role going forward. As the women speak, the local mime, another mysterious local with whom Nora had a pleasant, if short, conversation with in the last issue, appears to be listening in from a boat offshore. We won't see or hear from him again until the end of the issue, but his presence at this point is important to mention for later. At this point, it’s made clear that Call to the Kraken isn’t just the name of the party, but an actual ceremony performed weekly for the new batch of tourists on the island. Every Monday for generations, the island has put on a show for tourists. Traditionally garbed Pacific Islanders dance and blow horns made of shells, calling the kraken beast up for viewing. However, Nora’s narration notes, no one mentions the time(s) it went wrong, as portrayed by a gruesome photo spread and paper clipped news article about a 1926 Call to the Kraken gone wrong, leading to the deaths of uncertain numbers of onlookers. A two-page spread of bright, tropical graphic design shows the drink menu for the Call to the Kraken party, which features all kinds of fruity cocktails with pun-names. As the sisters and the rest of the group wait for the ceremony to begin, it is interrupted by a couple of mime children, appearing out of the darkness with the German mother of Claus. No answers are offered as to if these smaller mimes are related to the older one, last seen in a boat offshore. They claim to have found the woman along the beach muttering “die meerjungfrau”. When she gets to the party she collapses, and is rushed off in an ambulance sporting a “keep Bermuda Triangle weird!” sticker. The entire affair has a very cinematic feel to it, as if all the inhabitants of the island are just actors. As they watch the old-fashioned ambulance pull away with other partygoers, Connie and Nora translate what the woman had been saying—mermaid. Another strategically placed informational page shows a somewhat retro-looking mermaid warning poster, telling people to avoid them at all costs. Later that night, Nora and Harry, the MI-6 agent shown to have a loose romantic relationship with Nora in the first issue, talk on a secluded beach. He fills her in on what he and Connie have learned, further characterizing their own difficult relationship, which Nora notes. He tells her what we already know about the boy on the beach, and that the beaches are being shut down. There’s also a search party starting up, just in case the boy is still alive. Harry asks her to come help, but Nora declines, claiming to have work. In the narration, she adds that she’s also had four “pineapples” of Chardonnay, along with the work still to do. As she sits alone now in the sand, Nora monologues internally again about how Krakens only migrate to tropical climates for easy feeding, and waves are defined by something repeating over time. This statement makes me think not only that Nora has a habit of being unable to form intimate attachments with partners, but also possibly that deaths by mermaid incidents have repeated over time. A cheesy page showing a photo of the 1927 Kraken Memorial is a break for morbid levity before the plot moves forward. That night, Harry returns to his beachside home to find Nora waiting there, having broken in while he was gone. They bicker for a few moments about her habit of over-secrecy in herself but allowing none for him, which ends with him asking for a single piece of real truth about her. She tells him that she’s Nora, she's a spy, and she's a Sagittarius. He corrects the last point being a lie, still—she’s a Virgo. Whatever legitimate complaints about Nora’s secrecy Harry might have aren’t enough to drive him away, and they spend the night together, starting with a shower, and ending with them in bed. Later, before falling asleep, Nora makes note out loud of some mostly (at this time) relevant facts about buoys—her point being, someone had to send the information about heightened activity in the ocean to the Institute for Marine Cryptozoology, who then sent her sister Connie to investigate. The conversation turns then, as they begin to discuss her secrecy again. While somewhat tense, the talk illuminates several key plot details, namely that Nora’s “file” is far more redacted than usual, and her father may or may not have been killed in a car bomb ten years ago for speaking out against the Brotherhood of Depravity. Remember, the key organization running this universe is the Ministry of Trouble, almost comparable to Harry Potter's Ministry of Magic for witches and wizards. We can assume through context, then, that the Brotherhood is a terrorist organization in this world, working against the Ministry. The issue ends (not including the fake sand-flea bite cream ad on the back cover) with Nora briefly touching on her history with Connie, as we watch panels of Connie in her hotel room. Nora talks about a game they had as children, pretending to drown and rescue one another. It was then that Connie saw her first mermaid, letting us assume that her interest in the subject has lasted her whole life. As the narration ends, Connie lights a cigarette, and welcomes the shadowy figure of the local mime into her room from the balcony. “Hiya pops,” she says, “I wondered if you were ever going to say hello.” Connie knowing of their father’s existence on the island begs a couple of questions. We're left to assume she must have some inside knowledge as to what he did for the Brotherhood, and therefore may be connected to them herself. If she is connected, it brings up the question of if mermaids have anything to do with either the Ministry or the Brotherhood. Or, there's always the possibility she came into this knowledge another way, and is working against the Brotherhood under the guise of mermaid cop, so to say. We still don’t know much about Nora herself, and have to assume she doesn’t know her dad is alive. She interacted with the mime in the last issue, but nothing indicated she thought he was family in any way. Harry suggested to Nora earlier that her father was in witness protection, which makes it seem as if he is searching for her father on behalf of British Intelligence. That would not only explain his insistence at sticking around Nora regardless of her flippant attitude towards him, but also why he keeps questioning her, of all people, on an island filled with mysterious inhabitants. If Nora’s father has been on the island for some time, he must have either been stationed there, out there under witness protection as Harry suggested, or escaped there to hide some time ago. Spy Island is halfway done already! Issue #3 comes out November 4th, and I can't stress enough how good this series is. From the front cover to the back cover, every inch of Spy Island is a treat to read. The story, characters, art, world building, and graphic design are all on-point, waiting to be appreciated by new readers! See you November 5th with what I have no doubt will be another five-star review!
#3, November 4th, AVAILABLE NOW!
After my intense break-down of the creative team's efforts on the last issue, I'll try and be less wordy this week. My enthusiasm for this team and their comics is unending, so I apologize if I get out of hand.
As usual, Spy Island starts with the front cover, and ends with the very back one. On the cover's interior, the story jumps right in to where we left it. Nora tells her tale of the death of her father, in a car bomb explosion. She starts by explaining the kind of man who he was--a man who knew people, and could get you what you want. When the cards were drawn, her father testified against the Brotherhood of Truth, a worldwide terrorist group. His testimony helped put them behind bars, they responded with the car bomb that supposedly killed him. But then the story as we know it changes, and so starts the explanation to how her father wound up alive, as a mime, on the island. Nora was always in on it. She found the original San Francisco city mime to replace her father with, and who ended being the victim of the car bomb. She gave her father his new identity, someone no one would notice or question: a mime of his own. She brought him to the island because there was very little risk, in his case, and she could continue to work as a spy. A sweet montage on one page shows father and daughter doing various activities on the island of various degrees of legality. Then we start to get the real story behind what Nora has been up to, and what exactly is going down on the island. In a few scenes with Harry, back at his home, she starts to theorize that the arrival of sand fleas on the island's beach might be related to something to do with her father, tucked away in secret on this island. Meanwhile, out on a local beach, Connie, Nora's sister, is still leading the search for the German tourist child, who we saw eaten by a mermaid in the last issue. Connie is more than aware there won't be a full body left, just the odds and ends mermaids prefer not to eat. Instead of the boy, though, they find the body of a man--the man Nora killed at the beginning of the series. Connie, being the most experienced cryptozoologist on the island, decides to perform an autopsy at the local morgue, known for it's uncanny cleanliness. During the procedure, Connie records her process on small device for posterity's sake. She narrates aloud the cutting, snapping, breaking, and bending as she digs through the corpse for any clues on he we wound up as mermaid lunch. What she finds, though, is a surprise to us all. Inside the body, presumably just after killing the man, Nora had stashed a small capsule, just bigger than a pill. Upon her discovery, Connie begins to describe what she found to her recorder. When the capsule unscrews to reveal a letter addressed to her from Nora, Connie pauses, and states aloud that the object turned out to be organic, and the autopsy is completed. Recorder off, she reads the letter to herself. It seems Nora stashed it there, knowing mermaid activity would bring Connie to the island, and she'd eventually inspect this body. The letter says that ears are everywhere on the island, their father is alive, and she needs Connie's help in killing Harry--her MI-6 lover. This is a bit of a shock, as Nora and Harry have been staying together on the island, more or less, and Nora has shown no sign of distaste or distrust towards him. But Nora clarifies as her letter wraps up, "Harry must die. It's the only way I can save him." The issue ends with Nora and Harry relaxing off-island. Doug, another local hit-man, busts into the room, and Harry flies off the balcony inot the depths of the ocean below. Paired with the narration of Nora's letter, this leaves a lot up to question. Harry has been thrown into deep ocean currents, presumably unconscious. In the final image of the issue's interior, his body drifts past a somewhat "classic" looking mermaid, as opposed to the ones that terrorize the Bermuda Triangle. But if Nora is claiming that his death is what will save him, I have to guess that she really means faking his death, and someone below the water will recover his body before it's too late. This issue revealed so much about Nora, her past, and her time on the island. We left off in the last issue under the assumption that she has no idea her father is the mime, or that Connie might know something, herself. Not only do we now know that Nora has been harboring her father in the island willingly, she was the one who helped him escape his untimely death in the first place. Maybe this has to do with him being a secret agent, as well, or even his interest in Nora's family. Whether or not Harry is still alive, this would explain his pestering Nora about the situation with their father. In issue #2, he asked her, while sharing his bed, very close and personal questions about her past and her relationship with her dad, causing her to cut off the conversation abruptly. While we'd been left to assume this was due to the nature of the tragedy, it now seems that Harry was on to Nora, and she was trying to continue protecting her father. But that still leaves Connie. In the end of issue #2, Connie made it clear that she is aware their father is the local mime, addressing him as such. But during the reading of Nora's autopsy letter, and Nora's "reveal" to her of their father being on the island, she showed no signs of just how much she knows. It's still possible that Connie is double crossing her sister, her father, Harry, or all of them at the same time. There's one final issue of Spy Island left to wrap up this story, and I can't wait to discover the secrets it holds. As I've written many times, there is no wasted energy, space, conversation, art, or effort at all in Spy Island's colorful pages. The use of multi-media art, like props, labels, and photography, makes the reading experience interactive, and the fun details provided in each panel allow the reader to take as long as they want to absorb the material. Nothing is lost, underdeveloped, or ignored. For a four issue series, Spy Island has a remarkable amount of moving pieces working together to build the fantastic story.
#4, December 2nd, AVAILABEL NOW!
Opening Spy Island for it's fourth and final issue, I'm equally excited to find out what happens with the story, and saddened that I won't have more to read. The final installment doesn't disappoint. We're dropped into the story immediately--following a recap page full of photos (I think?) of a mime in various stages of his act. This black-and-white intro reminiscent of film panels reminds me of Monty Python's Flying Circus, preparing the reader for the over-the-top fun and adventure that will follow. The story picks up in a submarine, where Nora and her sister are studying tremors, ominously stating "He's waking up." After a title-page made out of shaky EKG signals, we're back into a beautiful world of stunning color and aquatic adventure. A page of Henry's wide, confused, somewhat terrified eyes sits across from panels of he and Nora in this massive under-water space, where the ombre of the sea behind them fades from a brilliant teal to a deep black, contrasted against the bright pinks of a school of jellyfish, and the 60's style pinks and yellows of Henry's recovery bedroom. Visually, the scene is equal parts fantasy aquarium hotel and James Bond 007, the latter of which is extenuated by Nora's diving suit and whaling spear, which she has because, I imagine, she's Nora and she does what she wants. She explains to Henry, in her brief and matter-of-fact way, that after pretending to kill him, her sister Connie saved him. Henry's confusion is clear, a theme that continues through all his experiences of the issue. Nora and her team of fellow spies and unsavory types are gathered in an over-sized safe house, reaching from deep under-water to high above the sea. A helpful graphic of the exterior both above and below water compares the building's design and setup to Sigmund Freud's view of the human mind: consciousness is above water, subconscious is the shallows, and unconscious is the deep water. The creators have been helpful enough to label all the items in this graphic, including chardonnay storage vats, shame, and "just a perfectly ordinary sub." The labels are ridiculous, of course, but stand as another example of the creative team's excellent sense of dry humor. As she fills them in on her father, the mime, everyone at the table has something less-than-pleasant to report about an interaction with Louie on the Island. Harry's confusion doubles down when he's introduced to the odd amphibious gloob character, and his shock is apparent. The gloob-man is clearly offended that Harry doesn't recognize him, and clever narration answers some questions about Harry: he tends to subconsciously block out the weirdness of the Bermuda Triangle. With wild friends like these, who can blame him? As the group discuses what to do, the audience is filled in on how they all ended up team-"stop Louie". Louie always seemed a little off, even after our learning of his fatherhood secret. Here, we see him as he was several days ago, drunkenly divulging secrets to one skeptical daughter, while not-so-underhandedly insulting the other. But it's more than just family drama that brings up arguments towards stopping Louie. Nora had a chance for a one-on-one with some local mermaids, learning of their real problem: the underwater construction. This construction, of course, is from none other than Louie digging up under-water artifacts with a jack-hammer. He even built himself an army of sand fleas with surveillance equipment and scuba gear to help him on his mission. He's been selling what he finds in the under-water treasure site on the black market, solidifying his allegiances with himself over his daughters and their interests. When Nora, Connie, and their friends head out in their own creative scuba gear and confront their mime father, the sisters come together in each other's defense, but the whole thing turns into a big deep-sea fight, anyway, ending with Nora leading a small army of mermaids to help capture and contain Louie. While the two sisters are vastly different in appearance and approach to life, they really aren't that different. With their family together for the first time in unknown ages, it would have been easy to let their father sweep them off their feet, ignore whatever problems he causes, and continue to blame one another for his mistakes. But seeing their father continuing to hurt the people they care about, including one another, the women plant their feet firmly, and lock arms, metaphorically. The final battle under-water against Louie the mime included a string of definitely unofficial ASL statements flung between the aging man and his daughters, where Connie flips him the bird, translated as "we conspired against you, because we are sisters," and later, Nora grabs her whaling spear to say, "I grow weary of the patriarchy." Simple, yet effective. Even beyond the direct events that brought them together, I choose to believe the sisters are closer than ever. After all, Nora's empathy for the mermaids' quality of life is reflected in her sister Connie's claim to cryptozoology, making them a superb team. Unfortunately, their efforts stopped a little late, and the great Kraken of the deep starts to emerge. In one of my favorite uses of mixed media in the whole series, Nora confidently lifts a finger to her lips, signing to the others, "I've got this." Below her, images of a bottle of fancy Chardonnay, alongside a simple card apologizing for the racket, is nabbed by an octopus arm. Once again, simple, yet effective, with their classic dry humor. And admit it, you have to enjoy the idea of a sea monster taking a bottle of wine to cool off after a hard day. With all the hullaballoo calmed down for the time being, Nora's narration walks us through the last few pages. Connie hangs out on the island, getting to know the local mermaids enough to admit to them she was two credits short from her cryptozoology degree. The fellow spy-friends who helped Nora and Connie hang out on the boardwalk to people-watch, as they do, but maybe with a little more familiarity between them, this time. Louie, the mime, is back to serving ice-cream on the beach, where he can do no harm, we hope. The final line of the comic comes from Nora by way of narration. She and Henry have been lounging on their lovers' day-ship, drinking orgasm cocktails. Mermaids swim by their boat, and Nora asks him if he wants another orgasm before locking eyes with the audience, and asking the reader, "Did you feel that?" While this sort of ending is definitely open to some interpretation, I personally enjoy it. To me, this feels like the creators signaling that even though the series is over, the adventures of Nora, Connie, and their companions will continue on, in our hearts. This issue, like the others, is chock-full of creative digital design, using digital map imagery, photos mixed with artwork, and fake ads and notices to fully immerse the reader in this world. The details locked in the pages are enough to spend an hour with each issue of Spy Island, from cover to cover. I still don't know how Chelsea Cain and her team got themselves two different series' from two different publishers with not a single ad between them, but it made for a seamless reading experience. While their previous series, Man Eaters, had a lot more obvious metaphor for societal standards and whatnot, Spy Island is just as much of a feminist comic. Between the shockingly creative use of media to tell their stories, the strongly characterized and believable female characters, and the variety of real-world relationships, this all-female creative team (sorry Joe) has my loyalty for life. And, of course, don't let your personal monsters get the better of you.
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Chelsea Cain
12/3/2020 02:54:48 pm
This is the most AMAZING series of reviews ever. Jesus Christ, I hope you like the 4th issue. :)
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Sensational She-Geek
12/3/2020 03:35:28 pm
Thank you so much! It means a lot that you took that time to read them! And I loved the last issue, I'll be posting about it today or tomorrow!
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