What is Gilda And Meek about?
It's about several things at once. It's a story of a Lucky Universe in a Multiverse teeming with Unlucky Ones and how our hero navigates that to her own advantage. It's a funny animal book that bit by bit reveals a huge fantasy and science fiction underpinning, much like Bone. It starts off as an erstwhile comedy until you realize it's actually been a drama the entire time. It's a story that after you read all 90 issues, you'll want to reread them again, as the best reading of The Un-Iverse isn't the first, it's the second. It's a bunch of random and seemingly unrelated characters and stories building and crossing over until they collide in an epic 19-part finale. It's about the antagonistic and loving relationship between the hero Gilda and the kid who looks up to her, Bernadette, and how their feelings for each other prove there is no wrong way to love a person. It's a political satire parodying the ridiculousness of the age we live in made more ridiculous by the fact that real life is crazier than my story's outlandish examples. It's about the fact that evil is uncool and mundane, and it's neat to have heroes to like and root for, and where the heroes are more interesting than the villains. It's about a strong female hero whose gender is irrelevant to the story at hand and is merely a strong hero who happens to be a female. It's about all of these things and none of them at the same time. Mostly, it's a way for me to work through my psychological crap. Which is what I think most writing boils down to for people.
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"Shut up. We're doing this."
Let's open the world up a bit. A grab-bag of short stories starring secondary characters, some new, some familiar. Most are pure comedic short subjects, but the one at the end is more of an adventure in the traditional Un-Iverse style.
The Humans travel to Egypt only to encounter a Mummy's Curse. But perhaps the Mummy's true curse is The Human' themselves.
Meanwhile an animal cat and bird named Narf-Narf and Chirp plan a jewel heist with a Terran Dog pickpocket named Stella Stickyfingers. And what is up with Narf-Narf's bizarre obsession with sore throat spray?
Meanwhile the Piranha goes up against a sadistic mailman.
And finally we meet Juan Timone Howler, new member of the FBI, and a major thorn in the sides of two shadowy government agents, who suggest the U.S. secretly government backs Mistress Augatha's plans for world domination. This story is the first of four parts with a literal "Blackout" cliffhanger.
Also, there are three gag strips (including one starring Meek and Bernadette) as well as a spoof ad. What do all of these disparate characters and unrelated stories have to do with the major arcs of The Un-Iverse? Or are they just random nonsense and pure filler? Let's just say I wouldn't skip the following five issues if I were you.