It’s been a while since I’ve done a webcomic, so let’s correct that oversight. I’ve brought up Sugary Serials, the comic site with a Saturday Morning cartoon theme. Usually, it’s a comic by Jerzy and Mark, but there are plenty of other contributors, so tonight I’d like to induce you to read a comic that isn’t a sci-fi action story. It’s a touching story about a little girl and her two imaginary friends. I introduce to you:
Imaginary Friends Forever, by Diana Nock {click the logo to visit}
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Imaginary Friends Forever is the story of a little girl named Miranda and two imaginary friends looking “for work”. In other words, being a friend to a child. One is a cat and the other is an owl. Sadly, I didn’t find a cast list so while I know one of them is named Mina (probably the cat, who we also know is female), that’s all I really have. The owl is an intellectual and the cat more of a wild one (the best term I could come up with), and they don’t get along.
All we know about Miranda’s dad is he has a beard.
What I really like about this comic is how well the characters play off each other, with a variation of the Star Trek bridge crew if you think about it. The owl would be the logical one (Spock) and the cat more the act first/think second type (vaguely McCoy), with Miranda keeping peace between the two and perhaps even learning something from both.
With imaginary friends like these two, who needs imaginary enemies?
Unlike Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, a cartoon with imaginary friends as real being as a premise, the friends in Imaginary Friends Forever don’t seem to be created by kids, but find kids to be friends with. It’s also less crazy in presentation, which leads to more warm & fuzzy stories, as opposed to simply running it up a flagpole and seeing if anyone salutes. Also, the character in Foster’s are drawn like just another character in the world, just not exactly human. Here the imaginary friends look different from the kids, with less detail and solid colors, but still feel like they exist in the same world as Miranda and her human friends. I think it works much better this way.
Imaginary Friends Forever is a nice little comic, that’s fun and heartwarming while sending a positive message about believing in yourself and friendship. It’s a great addition to the Sugary Serials line-up and I hope for more stories in the future.
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