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[Link] The Crater Kid [Date] 1/11/01 [Comments] 
It gives me great pleasure to finally get the chance to recommend this comic. It's a little bit different than most of the others I read, a colorful serial in 3-panel daily format. It's a mixture of eye-candy (a hip homage to 1950's design and science-fiction, so slick looking that I avoided it for a while thinking it to be a scam of some type) and some pretty clever story lines. An energetic cowboy outfit-wearin' kid is zapped to an alien planet where everything is patterned after meticulously studied drive-in movies, because the hipster Diz and floating, glass-bowl-covered "Sponge" have a premonition that he is a "true hero". So far he has helped them solve two mysteries of their odd and thematic world ("The Screaming Stones" and "Howling Mountain"), and now faces simultaneous dangers in the new "The Whispering Well". Although built on a solid kitch foundation, the stories turn out to be anything but cliche, touched with meloncholy and requiring unusual thinking on the part of the Kid, but never straying out of "G" rating territory. Update 5/5/02I don't know why, but this comic is now just re-running it's archives, so I'm putting it on the inactive list.
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