MegaTokyo

Spent a lot of time tonight reading MegaTokyo. Last night, I read the third trade paperback (most of which I read online a couple years ago), and that got me interested in the characters again. Then tonight I plowed through all the remaining strips, until I was all caught up.

I love Fred's art on this strip. The writing is good, but not great, but it's the art that really makes this series fun. The characters are very expressive, and it's something a lot of artists neglect in favor of going into super-detail. The fact that Fred does the art and writing duties is commendable. The series might've been funnier when Rodney Caston was writing it, but ultimately, MegaTokyo is a romance story and while it's not short on chuckles, it really delivers the goods. I can't believe I can't get Rhonda to give it a try, since I really think it's right up her alley.

It's too bad the strip isn't in color. Maybe, with the wild success Dark Horse is having with the MT trades, they can re-release the strips in color a la Bone, which got a fabulous color face-lift whenit was picked up by Scholastic.