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I originally heard word of this comic last year via KickStarter. I was intrigued by the unique art style, the usage of a (not overly sexualized) female protagonist, that its creator is a fellow Californian native and that I was able to get a print copy for under ten bucks.
@grimwilkins received Mirenda #1 autographed, bagged & boarded & goodies! #KickstaterComics ??? pic.twitter.com/xBDq5JO3Lu — CarrieClipsMcClain (@DivineBlkPearl) January 19, 2016
I did receive my copy in the mail recently (and kickstarter goodies!) and once I bought a digital copy I most definitely wanted to review it for BNP. [quote_simple]”Issue 1 of Mirenda, the story of a jungle woman on a journey to remove a terrifying, possibly undead creature from her leg. This is one strange tale, indeed.”[/quote_simple] Mirenda is a young woman only clad in a loin cloth like garment who frolics through a forest in a world forever changed by a traumatic event, possibly a major war? She finds herself in the worse situation ever when by not only does she find a undesired hole on one of her body parts BUT also it serves as a portal for some ungodly creature come out from.
This revelation leads Mirenda to start her journey for a solution. But she does this we are introduced to other characters seemingly on a mission and it is within these pages that we see a masterful experimentation of being able to tell a story while shifting panels around to cater to Tim “Grim” Wilkin’s art style. Speaking of Wilkins’s …
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Carrie McClain
Carrie McClain is writer, editor and media scholar. Other times she's known as a Starfleet Communications Officer, Comics Auntie, and Golden Saucer Frequenter. Nowadays you can usually find her avoiding Truck-kun and forgetting her magical…
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