Emily the Strange #1

Synopsis

Vol. 1 #1 The Boring Issue Originally created in 1991 as a marketing tool for a Santa Cruz skateboard company, Emily the Strange was quickly turned into tee-shirts, key chains, backpacks, cosmetic products, dolls, playing cards, and eventually... a comic book. And why not, Rob Reger's multi million dollar firm wasn't going to turn down the opportunity to transform the brooding thirteen year old cutie and her four black cats into an even larger pile of cash. Never too entrenched in the values of creative integrity, there was sure to be a comic company that would likewise be looking to cash in. This was the first biproduct of that unholy union. Emily fans snatched this up and were welcomed into her dark awkward world ensuring that more would follow. Filled with innocently macbre antics and harmless creepy vestiges of death, Emily's random and sometimes dicombobulated mini-adventures with talking cats and fellow strange folk is firmly in keeping with the brand that she was molded into on chotchkeyes and doodads in every American mall for a generation. Not one story, but rather a slew of cobbled together "jokes", fan club solicitations, Faux advertisments, and even two full sticker pages, it is truly impossible to synopsize this offering from Dark Horse and the creative minds at Cosmic Debris.