Do you know what gets me every time, even (getting pretty close to) 24 years after I started this comics review website? Seeing new comics from people that I first reviewed ages ago, or in this case 2009. Which, yes, is very much “ages ago”. I got a couple of comics from Matt in late 2009 (the review date says 2010, but that’s because that’s when I remade the website, losing a lot of the original review dates and zzzzz), reviewed them both in the same month and seemed to like them just fine, and then can’t recall seeing his name again. According to his website he made two more comics at the time but only released them relatively recently, but this issue looks like it’s hot off the presses. Am I ever going to get around to talking about the actual comic? Yes, right now! On the inside front cover of this comic we see the main characters, and in a single image we get their names and a general personality type for each of them. Bravo, it’s best not to assume with a #7 that everybody has been along for the ride, especially if you’re coming back to comics after so long away. The story here details the way that school worked in the old days, roughly when I was in school it looks like, so that was a little chunk of nostalgia for me. The heart of this comic deals with a poster project, which was essentially an assignment that a teacher could give a student to keep them occupied for a week. If you guessed it involves making posters, well, it’s right there in the name, so don’t congratulate yourself too hard. But our hero Kyle both wants to be a magician (the story also deals with being “assigned” a future profession after taking a test) and is trying to get his hands on some new Funyon type snacks. He makes the poster himself, but he talks his friends into following a lead into the forest about the snacks, and ends up finding something he’d rather not know about them. There, no spoilers. It’s a fun, lighthearted comic, which is exactly what I needed today. Welcome back to comics Matt! Unless you never left, in which case welcome back to Optical Sloth I guess? $1
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