Calla., B – Untitled

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I’m breaking a few rules with this one, as there was no name anywhere in the comic (I’m getting the “B. Calla” from the e-mail address) and it’s untitled, meaning there’s no way to find out anything about this online that I know of.  I tried googling the e-mail address, which does occasionally work if you’ve never tried it, but no dice.  So why review it at all?  Mostly because I really loved the artwork.   As for the story, this is a tiny thing and I have no idea where it’s going, but that could be good or bad.  A prince escapes from his kingdom into the sea, and is saved by a merman who would rather eat him.  He runs into a bunch of unicorns, who respond derisively to the guy until he smacks them around a bit.  Finally at the end we get to see where he might come in useful later.  Like I said, it could go either way, but the level of detail on some of the artwork was downright impressive.  Impressive enough to dull my white-hot hatred of comics produced without names attached.  I’ll never get why that’s such a difficult thing for some people.  If I hear back from him/her, I’ll put the actual name up there.  For now, a lesson to any young cartoonists out there, or dim-witted older ones: any comic you make could be the one that somebody like me picks up.  Maybe this person has a detailed bio in every other comic they’ve done, but THIS is the only one I bought on this trip to Chicago.  Unless maybe they’re completely incognito and I just blew their cover, in which case… oops.  $1