![]() ![]() ![]() Like his revered comics hero, Super Amoeba, blobby Squish is determined to do what’s right. Countering the (perceived, at least) girliness of their Babymouse series, the talented Holms turn to the microbial world for new graphic material. Squish may be an amorphous blob, but he needs to whip his supporting cast into shape for issue two. The hilarious misadventures of a hapless young everylad who happens to be an amoeba. Add to that a disappointing two-color palette, and the whole undertaking seems flatter than a microscope slide. Can even our precocious protozoan hero get himself out of this one? The Holms strike a breezy, goofy tone right out of the gate, and Squish is a likably put-upon lead character, but beyond him the book doesn't offer much his pals are annoying and the villain has as many dimensions as he has cells (that is, one). When yet another bout of tardiness lands the whole group in detention, Squish is faced with a full-blown moral dilemma: in order to save Peggy from becoming Lynwood's next between-meal snack, he has to let the big bully copy his next science test. His two best friends Pod, a bowtie-wearing amoeba nerd, and Peggy, a pathologically cheerful paramecium are a constant thorn in his side he just can't seem to make it to school in time and Lynwood the school bully wants to swallow him whole. For a single-celled organism, Squish the amoeba leads an awfully complicated existence. ![]()
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