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[Link] You Say It First [Date] 6/3/04 [Comments] 
If you've been reading this site or my LiveJournal, you know that I'm a fan of Isabel Marks. I like her drawing style and the fact that she is producing about four comics at once these days with her husband Terrance Marks, the inventor of the innovative Unlike Minerva which ended several months ago. You Say It First continues the story of that (recently re-archived) comic. After a shocking first week in which the characters from the Minerva Theater are somewhat unrealisticly thrust into the real world and scatttered to the four winds, the story is pared down to just the Brisbane and Kimberly story. Their relationship has been very interesting up to this point as it slowly evolved. It began as humorously adversarial and moved logically from there into flirtation until both of the characters began to come to the realization that there might be something between them. Now the story continues, with a brilliantly mature writing style that ignores none of the baggage from the earlier part of the story while examining the difficulties of developing their relationship further under stressful real-life conditions. Kimberly's character is fleshed out more, while you feel for Brisbane's confusion as he tries to figure her out, caught in her protective layers of mystery and his own uncomfortable situation of having to rely on her for a place to live. All this and it still succeeds in being funny every day. The art is fantastic, and what a hilarious URL!
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