Ihrig, Russell – Sockford #1

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Sockford #1

Wow, is this ever going to terrorize some teenage boys. This starts off as a fairly straightforward story about a high school boy and his crush on a girl at school who he hasn’t had the courage to ask out. He also has a platonic (and odd) female friend, so the pieces were all there for them to eventually fall in love when he realized that the other girl wasn’t right for him. However! Dale (the boy) used a sock to clean up after himself after, um, thinking about his crush for awhile. This crusty sock ended up in the washer, a freak lightning strike hit their house, and somehow the sock gained sentience. Hey, it could happen! And now you see what I mean about this terrorizing teenage boys, because if they ever get the idea that they can’t even masturbate safely, I shudder to think of how quickly this country would be destroyed. Anyway, people seem to take Sockford surprisingly in stride, and this issue is all about him learning all that he can about the world. My only complaint is that his interactions with Dale felt a little thin, as I think having a suddenly sentient sock growing up in his room would have changed him a bit more than it did, and it certainly would have brought the two of them closer than it seemed to. Still, this is a solidly entertaining comic, with a nice little cliffhanger that raises the stakes on the next issue. Check it out, then think back in horror to all of the lives of the young potential Sockford’s that have been snuffed out over the years by the lack of electrical storms at the right moments. $7

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