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| © Michael Chevy Castranova 2015 |
In my comic strip,
“Slipped,” I have tried to tell and depict the kind of adventure stories I
would like to read. So while not PG, certainly within an R rating.
The tales aim to
be exciting, the violence thrilling but not gruesome. Tyler is a cat burglar, but hardly anyone ever dies —
or is seen to die. This isn’t “Terry and the Pirates,” as much as I admired
that fantastic strip.
The art in
“Slipped” itself remains cartoon-y, even as I want the protagonists to be
cartoon-world attractive — Tyler is cute and pretty, Pip the dog is endearing,
etc. At the same time, Tyler has matured over the course of the strip, since
March 2008, from a plucky youngster to a young woman. So, yes, sometimes she
dresses as an adult woman — keeping in mind the styles of the mid-1920s.
(More important,
she tends to make it known if she doesn’t like the attire I’ve selected for
her. She reminds me that she’s the star of “Slipped,” after all.)
And most of the
time the stories themselves are within the bounds of reason — well, if you
accept that time travel, singing dogs and giant, intelligent rats are credible,
right?
The tone changes,
though, as the adventures evolve. Sometimes our heroes are caught up in a basic
chase story or maybe a fight scene, espionage or science fiction — remember,
Tyler met Pip on the moon.
But underneath all
of it is Tyler’s search for what became of her father, Arkady Wilson — the
first Scarlet Sparrow. That is what convinced her, and her sister, Mendacity,
to agree to their latest adventure.
Which brings us to
chapter 361, where things are about to go wildly astray from how Tyler planned.
Of course.
Take a look.
And thanks for
reading …
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| © Michael Chevy Castranova 2015 |
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