I don’t know why this slice-of-life, lightly comedic webcomic is called “Johnny Wander” (beyond the creators moving about a bit) but Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us is a collection of these Johnny Wander strips starring the authors and their housemates John, Conrad and a small army of cats.
I’m usually up for slice-of-life, silly fluff but these were just a wee bit too fluffy for me. They move about, live in crappy houses/apartments, play word games and generally doss about in between making comics. The series starts off being more focused on Ananth and Yuko before basically being mostly consumed by the weird and wacky things their cats do. There was just too many “eh… whatev” moments for me.
I liked John a lot. He’s this lanky intense dude who does shots of condiments and puts cats in his shirt – he’s quite the character. The occasional strip made me chuckle like one guy randomly picking up Yuko and carrying her off, then Ananth rescuing her by picking her up, then the guy picking up both Ananth and Yuko and running off with them! Ota’s art is great and looks good even when she’s drawing with her other hand when her drawing hand gets busted – very talented.
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us is tonally very similar to the likes of Scott Pilgrim but much less cohesive and compelling. Nah, I wouldn’t.
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