![]() ![]() Confident Zita finds a strange device in a meteor crater while playing with her more timorous best friend, Joseph. “A headstrong young girl makes a hasty decision and finds herself in a galaxy far, far away in this graphic-novel shining star. It's fun, plenty funny, and more than a little random. Fortunately, Hatke's got them, and he doles out an increasingly loony and charming array of aliens, robots, and unclassifiable blobs and hairy things for Zita (herself a cross between Ramona Quimby and a Matt Phelan waif) to encounter. Any story in which one can escape prison with a tube of "doorpaste" (just like toothpaste, except that it makes magic doors appear when smeared on a wall) obviously puts more stock in wowing imaginations than satisfying logic, and it needs solid cartooning chops to back it up. ![]() ![]() She makes some allies, takes off after him, and zany mishaps and dashing adventures ensue. Zita follows and lands on a delightfully bizarre alien planet, where she sees Joseph being captured by a tentacled, scuba-headed creature. Of course, no one could resist pushing a mystery button, which pops open an interdimensional portal that whisks Joseph away. ![]() “For no reason at all, a little red button crashes to earth while Zita and her pal Joseph are out cavorting around. ![]()
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