Page 45 Review by Stephen
It's random abandon time, and so finally summer at Page 45!
"To shave? Or not to shave?"
With which MILKKITTEN nails the daily dilemma of the modern male species.
Of all Mark's many discoveries, it has to be these occasional pieces of magnificent nonsense that hold the fluffiest place in our hearts. The first issue arrived with a packet of fuzzy-felt letters, but science has since moved on and here you'll find a comic within this comic attached "using very modern advances in nano-technology" - or, as well all know it, string.
Similarly: the latest razor upgrade from Gilette Mach3 Turbo to the 24-blade WidowMaker-XR24 "...for a shave beyond all sense, reason and logic".
The longest piece here is Tanya's timely reportage on the controversial new government legislation to make household pets run on electricity - a conversion which comes with roll-on side-effects for some cats and dogs; a Catholic Corgi, for example, emerging as Jewish. There are repercussions also for the Winchington Mowbray committee's innovative approach to an ever earlier spring in which daffodils now flower in February and lambs are born before their parents have even mated: skip March! Yes, having judged the home-made jam, they get on the Tony Phone and persuade Mr. Blaire to persuade Satan to skip March. And Dubya agrees. So after 20th February it's 21st April except in France which opts out:
"The world goes on much the same, but foreign travel is sometimes difficult, with 'new time' and 'old time' in operation, you might take off in June, but not land until August.
"Different countries race towards different eras at different speeds. As they progress, the desire to regularly lose months and years persists, to pitch themselves at the forefront of something, even if it only amounts to numbers on paper. Seasons become meaningless as months pass by competitively.... 'Come and visit us in 3020' screams an advert from No-where Siberia. People will be drawn there, if only to tell their friends and unlucky neighbours that they were that far ahead in some way. The townsfolk have lost so many years, their birthdays are now irrelevant. But they are happy with the tourism and can now afford bigger cars and breasts, hooray!"
What's even more stunning is Meditzky's commitment to photorealism throughout. (I have a very wonky camera.)
"As ever, please send marriage proposals etc. to: milkkitten@hotmail.com."
I know I did.
