GoComics A to Z, Vol. 15: Unstrange Phenomena
by LucasA weekly feature spotlighting new & unusual features on the GoComics A-Z roster
Feature: Unstrange Phenomena
Creator: Ed Allison
Format: strip
Frequency: currently updates every Monday
Recommended if you like: interplanetary pseudoscience, Tom The Dancing Bug, a hilarious and totally non-factual alternate world version of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"
What's more fun than fun facts? Fun facts that aren't true, of course. But not just plain old untrue - spectacularly, wildly, imaginatively, cosmically untrue. And with nice spot-colored illustrations, to boot. Such is the domain of "Unstrange Phenomena," a slight mis-characterization of what is in fact a genuinely strange reading experience. For example: all that recent hubbub in the news about discovering water on Mars? "Unstrange Phenomena" had even more exciting information about the makeup of the red planet years ago...
"Unstrange Phenomena" has a social conscience as well, dealing with issues ranging from immigration to the illegal pet trade, sometimes in the very same strip.
After reading through a lot of the U.P. archives on GoComics, I'm a much more informed citizen of the world than I was a few hours ago. And even if 100% of that information is totally bogus, I feel a lot better off for it and had some good laughs along the way. Give it a try yourself, right here on the world's finest indie/syndie comics powerhouse, GoComics.