DOLLTOPIAby Abby Denson
($2.00,
ComiXpress,
Abby Denson)
Reviewed by Mark CamposKitty the ballerina doll is bored with life in the Fantasy Home with Soccer Scotty. One night she and Army Jim escape and go to Dolltopia, a city "where renengade dolls can live".
It's a charming story, told with Abby's cheerful art. Long on explanation, as most Utopian stories are. As a story about non-conformity, it makes its points over and over again — it works better if you read it as Abby's projection of life in the big dollhouse of New York City — the concept of the boutiques and nightcubs of that worthy place filled with renegade dolls making new lives for themselves is interesting, though not pursued very far here. A doll-doctor, face scarred like Black Jack's, who builds arm joints for stiff-armed dolls, is another unique idea that gets lost in this book's brief span.
Still, when I make my million I'll commission a special printing of this comic, hire a plane and drop bundles of them over the Midwest. Arise, dolls, and throw off your conformist shackles!
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