I hesitate to ask, on account of the danger of it coming off me-me, but why is everybody talking about Steve Yoewell? Steve yowell didn't draw the Soul Sisters, Shaky did.
Steve Yeowell is more interesting than Soul Sisters and fresher in people's memory. Add to that most people wont remember much about Soul Sisters and the ones who do don't want to offend you.
...the strip is much, much better than people have been going on about forever, to the point where even I bought into that.
David's story is great, Shaky's art is outstanding - and even my own script-doctoring contributions strike me as the better end of my stuff when it's good.
I don't know what people have been saying forever so I can't respond to that, but I've just read the story for the first time. I wouldn't say it was shit, but it's certainly not great. So, on a par with the majority of short-lived Meg strips really. Shaky's art is a lot of fun. After Grant's comment above, I was interested to note that the first four or five episodes do have a lot of detailed backgrounds then he sort of gives up on that towards the end. There's also one fantastic panel with one of his standard looking figures against a scratchy, felt-tip backdrop of stuff getting bombed.
Unfortunately, the best art can't make up for a boring story and that's pretty much what you've got here. I can see what it's trying to do: create a light-hearted, throwaway romp riffing on daft sixties TV and comics. It probably doesn't help that I don't have much affection for either of those things but I think it fails because, rather than pastiche or homage, it's mostly just quotation. There were a couple of things about it I found mildly amusing and I'm happy to accept that it may just be my sense of humour that doesn't chime with the material, but a line like "...this is the hardest timber in the world, so ask yourself one question. Do I feel penitent?" doesn't even make me smile in recognition.
Although I believe the art came after the story, it actually reads as if it was written by someone who'd just seen Shaky's portfolio and been asked to come up with a narrative to make sense out of it.
