Reader, take a minute to absorb that cover and come up with an idea of what you think the story might be about. I had a few of them, but I don’t want to influence your imagination, so just go nuts with it. All done? Let’s see how close you got! This one is all about a bee who flew through a window and got called a name by a lady with a pastry in her mouth (so she couldn’t be clearly understood), which is how Mattiduck was invented. Confused? Don’t worry about it, it never comes up again. From there our hero goes looking for love, and things seem to be going pretty well with (his words) a pre-middle aged lady. But then he made the terrible mistake of assuming that her job was a position of subservience, which was an insult that could not be allowed to stand. Mattiduck then went through a fairly typical phase after a breakup: working out, going over old conversations to see the signs that he must have missed, and dreaming of elaborate ways to take revenge. Finally they get back to being civil enough with each other to give it another shot, but can Mattiduck make it through without saying something unbelievably stupid and/or offensive? Or is his lady love just too sensitive? There’s one clear answer here, but I’m not going to spoil it for you. It’s difficult to have too much sympathy for this duck in pants, but Jyrki does their level best. This is a solid (if occasionally uncomfortable, which I mean as a compliment) tale of love gained, lost and then tried again, and you should give it a shot. $7.95 (or $23 as part of a set of four comics, which is always my recommendation)
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