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Review: “Bee and Puppycat” #2
Bee and PuppyCat is the pudding-covered child of Natasha Alegri who draws and co-writes the book. She also works as a storyboard revisionist for Adventure Time and is the person responsible for the wildly popular Adventure Time gender-swap “Fionna and Cake.” Bee and PuppyCat acts like a spiritual successor sharing the same unique tone and similar lead characters. Originally an animated short, after an exceptional reception by the public and a hugely successful Kickstarter Bee and PuppyCat will now be made into an online show on Frederator Studios’ Youtube channel, Cartoon Hangover.
WRITTEN BY: Natasha Alegri
ART BY: Natasha Alegri
PUBLISHER: BOOM! Studios
PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE: June 11, 2014
Reviewed By: Torbin Chimners
The issue picks up immediately where the first issue left off with Bee and PuppyCat having just arrived in a black void where Temp-Bot lives. It gives them their next temp job: to repair a music box for an unknown client on Snowglobe Planet.
The dialogue here is superb, it captures the characters perfectly. You can really hear Bees distinctly awkward-but-cute voice and the robotic-but-aloof voice of Temp-Bot. A lot of this can be credited to Britt Wilson’s unconventional lettering that naturally flows with the characters and their emotions. It feels like a lot of time and care was put into it unlike the norm of uniform letters in a box. That’s not all this comic does that’s different. I won’t spoil it but this issue in particular has an excellently implemented additional feature that you’re going to want to have your phone at the ready for.
Altogether Bee and PuppyCat #2 feels like an experience rather than simply a straightforward read. It’s got laughs and it’s got tender moments. This first little arc actually wraps up quite nicely and leaves some dangling mysteries for future stories, which I didn’t expect from this series but whole-heartedly embrace. Get on board the Bee and PuppyCat train now so in a couple years you can tell all your friends that you liked it just after it got cool.
Torbin Chimners AKA Torin Chambers is a rad dude from the nineties who does film stuff or something. Thomas the Tank Engine is his favorite transformer. Find him on Twitter @Vulgar_Rhombus
Comics
‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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