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Greg and Fake Petre, Santos Sisters, "Scope," issue 1 page 6

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Title:	Greg and Fake Petre, Santos Sisters, "Scope," issue 1 page 6
Artist:	Greg and Fake Petre (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	75
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	4/6/2025
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From The Comics Journal, Feb. 2, 2022 (the link leads to the review which reproduces this page):

Santos Sisters #1 bills itself as �Finally, a comic for Generation X� on its cover, and that exasperated pseudo-serious-but-completely-joking tone carries throughout its 56 pages. It�s a delightful-looking newsprint comic, almost completely done in Dan DeCarlo cartoon stylings by creators Greg and Fake Petre, but with a violent superhero sheen and a knowing nod to the reader who has seen all of this before, but maybe not in this exact way - and not usually with this much playfulness.

The implied conceit of this self-published (but now distributed by Floating World) comic is that it�s a superhero comedy from the Archie stable, with garishly colored three- to eight-page stories such as �Santos Sisters in �Scope: Feel the Tingle�� and �The Santos Sisters in �Outta Gas, Kiss My Dolphin Ass��. The Santos Sisters themselves, Ambar and Alana, get an origin on the inside front cover in what looks like a travel or shampoo ad pastiche, a single image with text that reads: �One day while combing the beach, the Santos Sisters discovered a pair of beautiful medallions... What happened next changed their lives, forever.� What happened next, apparently, is that they put on medallions imbued with the powers of a goddess, �Madame Sosostris�, and can transform at will into flying, gun-wielding, mask-wearing murder-heroes with hearts of, if not gold, than at least candy. They are not altruistic, but they lean toward goodness. Not that any of these details matter all that much - the premise is not a setup for explorations of heroism, but rather as an engine for delivering weirdness and comedy.

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/santos-sisters-1/

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Mark V
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1 - Posted on 4/6/2025

One of my favorite new series of recent years and Greg and Fake are two of nicest cartoonists around.

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