Santos Sisters Vol. 1

by Greg & Fake

One day while combing the beach in their hometown of Las Brisas, the Santos Sisters discover a pair of beautiful medallions. What happens next changes their lives, forever. The medallions are imbued with the powers of a goddess, “Madame Sosostris,” and can transform them at will into flying, gun-wielding, mask-wearing murder-heroes with hearts of, if not gold, then at least candy.Follow Ambar and Alana, the Santos Sisters, as they balance spicy superheroics with the drama of their everyday lives in a playful mix of Archie Comics and Love and Rockets. The Santos Sisters fight crime, date guys, and try to just deal with day-to-day life as young women in a world of deadly assassins, roided-up footballers, zombie attacks, organized crime, and more — while their creators, Greg & Fake, help restore the concept of unabashed fun in comic books with a healthy infusion of nostalgia and laughs. Collecting the first five issues of the charmingly weird and weirdly charming hit indie comic book series! This book is published as a jacketed hardback; the jacket is a clear acetate printed with an image of the sisters in their superhero costumes. When removed, it shows the sisters in their every-day outfits.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Humor, Superheroes

Kindle Edition

Published March 11, 2025

Reviews

[Oscar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a five star party!

[Rick Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Santos Sisters is an ongoing publication from the creative team of Greg and Fake that depicts the adventures of Alana and Ambar Santos who moonlight as the superheroes known as the Santos Sisters. A nod to earlier superhero comics circa the '80s and classic Archie Comics, Santos Sisters features an eclectic mix of genre tropes with superhero comics. The ongoing serialization has been surprisingly covert, with little known about the creative team. I've been collecting the Floating World Comics published single issues since the release of Giant Sized Santos Sisters #1 back in 2021, and it's only via this collection that I've learned that Fake is the writer and Greg is the artist. What was always clear though is their intention to homage Dan DeCarlo's classic house style and produce some really fun comics.

The Santos Sisters balance their super-heroics with their personal lives as young women who balance their dating lives and other day-to-day stuff with an incursion of assassins, ghouls, time travelers, zombies and the mob. Each story offers something new and bizarre, but all delivered in the charming style evocative of Archie Comics. Despite the campy style, Santos Sisters is definitely geared towards adults as the humor is mature and edgy. It's a fun juxtaposition, one that heightens the humor as needed.

This collection contains the entirety of the first five issues of the series, though there aren't really chapter breaks to differentiate the individual issues (but the stories from each issue are indexed by a table of contents in the beginning of the book). It will read like a collection of gag strips that can be enjoyed out of order since there isn't a building or encompassing narrative, so one can easily peruse the book however they please. I do think the stories can feel a bit one-note if read in a single sitting, so enjoying the series intermittently might yield a better reading experience overall.

[Victor · Rating 5 out of 5]

4 1/2 stars.

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun art meh stories some funnier than others

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's junk, but there are a handful of funny moments!

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alana and Ambar Santos find magic medallions on the beach and fight crime as the Santos Sisters!

I am very much the audience for this. It looks like a super hero book but it's drawn in a more Dan DeCarlo Archie style and it's a humor comic that's actually hilarious and delightfully weird. I hope Greg & Fake keep cranking them out.

[Annalise · Rating 3 out of 5]

This run is so out of pocket it’s actually insane😭

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ymmv if you grew up reading older comics that this is supposed to be a twist on, since this will have nostalgia value. However, comics that this is supposed to be a "modern twist" were ones that I thought were stupid and not funny, and which made me think I didn't like comics until I read different kinds.

The layouts and art are boring to me, and the stories read like the cartoons shoved in between other programs that people actually wanted to watch. I also didn't realize when picking this up that it's written by men, but found myself thinking, "this sounds like it was written by men," and not in a good way. One of the sisters is the "slutty" (actually says this in the text) one, and is also coincidentally also the curvier and darker skinned one. Yikes. The only Black character is an angry Black woman out for revenge on a guy. Also yikes.

I'm super disappointed, because the idea of two Latina sister superheroes who are both fun and clever is really appealing. What a missed opportunity that's overrated (though maybe this should be less surprising since it's a Fantagtaphics title...)

[Bob Fish]

Completely bonkers but lots of fun !

Video review here :
https://youtu.be/NQOSkwNHJWo

[Jason Grote · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty fun, I suppose? Short, goofy superhero stories along the lines of what you’d see in silver age Archie, Disney, or Supergirl comics, very much in the style of Dan DeCarlo. The sisters are Latina, which begs comparisons to Love & Rockets, but it’s not even a real comparison. I haven’t bought single issues in decades, but it seems like that’s the real appeal of this comic; facsimiles of 60s Archie comics from artists who have read things like Cherry Poptart, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and the aforementioned Love & Rockets. But these are decidedly PG-13, unlike all of those. Not to be a crotchety Gen X comics snob, but compared to literally anything Fantagraphics put out before 2000, there isn’t much here!

[Keith Feltis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really fun, great art. I'll probably read it all again this week

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

2025 Eisner Award Best Continuing Series: Santos Sisters, by Greg & Fake, Graham Smith, Dave Landsberger, and Marc Koprinarov (Floating World). Fake is the main writer, and Greg is the main artist, but they sort of refreshingly acknowledge this is not a duo-hero-artist accomplishment, like the Big Houses, but not like that in that you get this idea that they all sit around a table and joke and invent together over caffeine/beer/pot: "Hey, about adding in a Conan character! Call him Kreg yhat Handsome Barbarian!" And then, ala Airplane (famous for making audiences laugh every 30 seconds, at most), they put in all the goofy jokes that make them laugh.

The main focus is the (Latina!) Santos Sisters, two girls hanging out at the beach flirting with boys that find medallions, and ta da! Obviously Archie comix-inspired, for art style and dumb humor (I greaw up on Archie comix; that is not a critique, kids). They are super heroes, who fight villains while talking about guys. In tight superhero costumes, but less. . . "huge breast-centric" than the also Archie-tribute Los Bros Palomar/Love and Rockets.

These guys beat out Tom King and James Tynion, the kings of Eisner the last few years (adn ebign nominated and not winning doesn't mean they still aren't the Kings of the Hill), but maybe the Eisner move here is to recognize some light fun, some qeffervescence. Share the wealth, let the newbies in! Pretty funny, I thought.

[Ian Morales · Rating 5 out of 5]

Santos Sisters is the graphic novel I needed in my life right now. Not since Love and Rockets have I been so excited and pleased with a Latino-based comic book series. It is as collaborative team of Greg and Fake grew up reading Archie and anything by the Hernandez brothers. They added cheeky sci-fi and fantasy elements to it, and voilà, we have Santos Sisters. It is a "must read" and a "must own" for collectors.

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Betty and Veronica meet the Hernandez brothers! If this sounds like a combination you could get into then the Santos Sisters (SS) is the book for you! Ambar and Alana are just living life; but when needed to fight evil they become the SS - defenders of Las Brisas! While this book is not graphically adult it is full of sexual innuendos - if you find this offensive then this book is probably not for you.

[Neil Carey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Keep all your 12 issue, 9 panel grid "love letters" to the superhero genre that explore how the superhero is a potent myth of mythic potency. Just give me 2 cute (and dumb) super gals who accomplish nothing of note, eat crap, lust after oafish guys, vegetate with the adventures of drunk cartoon bees, fail to save the dolphins, and -- last but not least -- dream of drunk cartoon bees

[Colin Post · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silver age superhero storytelling shot through with an Adult Swim sense of humor. The jokes are often sophomoric but they also often work. Everything really comes together when the unique world of Brisas City takes the fore - like the in-world show of the Boozy bees and Todd getting a job everywhere. Greg and Fake have developed a colorful cast of characters, and I hope the adventures continue.

[David Macpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is so much fun. Stoner super hero with a bit of Archie comics. I was aware of this from the beginning but I have missed some issues. Reading them in one volume was awesome. This is terribly silly stuff, but it makes me smile.

[Blaine McGaffigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are funny bits, but I'm not sure I fully get the project.

Ambar is fantastic. Alana's personality doesn't come through.

Love the recurring Todd jokes.

The Fantagraphics book design is incredible.

[Mmmhhmm · Rating 2 out of 5]

The parody of the archie comic was cute at first, but then it got tiring real quick

[Christoph Weber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really funny shorts. Not completely what I expected, but it was a very pleasant surprise. I don't always need those big story arcs where you end up having to buy years worth of comics.

[Becky]

DNF @30%

[Lora · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old School Betty and Veronica are silly superheroes. The Archies were my first favorite comic books, so I love the visuals, but the stories are just kinda dumb.

[Harry Jahnke · Rating 5 out of 5]

So fun! Can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading a comic! Also the art as a tribute to Hanna-Barbera and Archie? Chef's kiss.

[Olivia Cranston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Archie comics vibes but sisters who are super hero’s . Fun .

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a comic of goofs and gags but the goofs and gags are funny.