3 out of 5

A father readies a birthday cupcake for his toddler son when the boy suddenly floats out the window.  Dad gives chase for a dozen or so pages, thwarting monsters and the like.

Wee doggie!  …Except the visual metaphor being employed here is plainly obvious from the get-go, and the lightly humorous tone – unintended, I assume, but there’s a sort of escalating antics element to events – undermines its impact.  It’s well made, but in the over-serious way that high schoolers write poetry: competent, and not unintelligent, yet with a sort of close-minded awareness of its likely reception / offered perceptions.

Artist Sandy Jarrell has a fantastic Samnee-esque loose grace, but it’s similarly mismatched tonewise, setting the seriousness against – again, maybe / probably unintended – comedic notes.  His (her?) action also gets a bit cluttered timing-wise, but not super distractingly so.

Interesting, but not particularly engaging.