This is the last of the four Little Dee comic books. All the strips from October 20, 2007 through the final strips ending in March 2010. Includes the scuba fish, the Tao of Derby, and of course, the wrapped-up-with-a-ribbon ending.
Sweet story of a little lost girl (who doesn't speak with words) who is taken care of animals she met in the forest she got lost in. There's a vegetarian bear, a sweet though dumb dig, and a curmudgeonly vulture with a heart of gold. (And a very big mouth with an ego to match!)
Since I read the comic online and barreled through the archives in a short amount of time, I'm going to be lazyefficient and just write a single review for the entire series.
Little Dee is one of the cutest, most charming comics I've ever encountered. With a story like this, it would be easy to overdose on whimsy and stray into the realm of the saccharine, but much to my delight, that never happened—probably because Baldwin is so good at balancing the heartwarming elements and the absurd ones. The improbable and bizarre adventures experienced by Dee and her adopted family are funny and entertaining to read about without obstructing the comic’s central themes of love and family. By the same token, however, those themes never distract from the comical elements of the story either. And whatever the situation, the relationships between the characters feel very grounded and real. Ted, Vachel, Blake, and Dee deal with the same problems and challenges that every family does—with the added complication of being from different species.
Very charming comic. I found the strips in this volume (and in volume 3) better than ones in the first two volumes because not as many of rm depended on one of the characters (Vachel) being a jerk.