Title: "Pyjama-Rama!"
Writers: Jennifer Moore & Sean Carolan
Penciller: Leonardo Batic
Inker: Scott McRae
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Prismacolor
Cover: Leonardo Batic & Rubén Torreiro
Release Date: October 15th, 1997
Cover Price:
$1.95 U.S./ $2.75 Canada
Summary:
Dot holds a slumber party.
Description:
Dot, sick of doing "boy stuff," decides
to get in touch with her feminine side. After shoving her brothers off to a Planet
of the Apes movie marathon, she holds a sleepover in the tower. But the girls
are weirded out by her style, and Dot becomes impatient with their giggly,
immature attitudes. So she rids herself of them and joins her brothers at the
bijou.
Pages (out of 32): 6 pp.
Quote of the Story:
RALPH: [Bursting in on the girls.]: Dahhh, hey youse guys!
Keep it down, willya? They're filming "Contact II-Electric Boogaloo"
next door!
Review:
Short, sweet, to the point, but still an excellent
story. Not only the usual standard of humor that we've come to expect from
Carolan & Moore, but also a very nice analysis of Dot, coming to the
conclusion that she's certainly feminine, but enough "Warner" to
still be able to have fun with anvils and mallets and the like. The ending
scene, with her enjoying the same film as her brothers, but for more feminine
reasons, is perfect evidence of this. Excellent artwork by Batic, too. Supoib.
Rating: 
Title: "Lifestyles of the Old and Cranky"
Writer: Michael Dare
Penciller: Leonardo Batic.
Inker: Scott McRae
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Prismacolor
Summary:
Slappy frightens away tourists trying to invade her
privacy.
Description:
With Skippy at "Raging Walnuts,"
Slappy has the house to herself for a day—until some nosy tourists bust in.
Slappy throws them out, and tries to sell them some explosion-loaded souvenirs
on the way. She hypnotizes the next group that comes along, and blows the next
one up. By the time Skippy arrives home, Slappy has hooked up a system that'll
blow the tour buses to Mars at the push of a button.
Pages (out of 32): 10 pp.
Quote of the Story:
SLAPPY: [Hypnotizing the tourists with a machine that makes
a "Bzzzzrrrrp" sound effect.]: All right, everybody look here. You
are not real people, you are just characters in a comic book.
TOURIST 1: Oh my God, I'm two-dimensional!
TOURIST 2: How did I get in here?
TOURIST 3: I feel like somebody's reading me!
TOURIST 4: How do you pronounce "Bzzzzzzrrrrrp"?
Review:
Dare wrote several scripts for the A! TV show, which
were not produced due to cutbacks. His writing can be quite funny at times, but
most of the time it's nothing terribly great. His other unproduced A! scripts
can be found at: http://home.earthlink.net/~dare2b/animania.htm?19,29.
This story is fairly unremarkable—not bad, really, but not all that great
either.
Rating: ˝
Title: "Booth Bait"
Writers: Jennifer Moore & Sean Carolan
Penciller: Leo Batic
Inker: Scott McRae
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Prismacolor
Summary:
Minerva is hired by the "Fluffy Nummy Yum-Yums
Company."
Description:
The heads of the Fluffy Nummy Yum-Yums Company
are looking for something to grab people's attention at this year's Widget
Expo. They spot Minerva on the street and hook her for the job immediately.
When she gets there, it's a humiliating experience, until she notes the hunk at
the next booth. She's told not to fraternize with the competition, so she
throws out free stuff, causing utter chaos, and ultimately leading to the heads
of the company being run out of the expo while she hugs the guy.
Pages (out of 32): 8 pp.
Quote of the Story:
[The customers realize that the project doesn't live up to
Minerva's pitch.]
CUSTOMER 1: Where's the Vibra-Slap?
CUSTOMER 2: This doesn't do anything for waxy yellow
buildup!
CUSTOMER 3: Hey I'm still blind!
Review:
Fairly below-average for a Minerva story (very few
good wild takes or the like, and the story as a whole is a rather bad vehicle
for the Mink). But Carolan & Moore's usual brand of humor helps to juice it
up and makes it a lot more enjoyable than it really deserves to be.
Rating:
