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Sunday, June 24, 2018

Unicorn Isle

Unicorn Isle (1986) [Lee Marrs, Richard Pini, Nicholas Koenig]  

Five issues were produced of a planned twelve. Released by Warp and later co-published by Apple Comics.  This series shows both the strength and weaknesses of independent comics of the time.  It has a great deal of visual appeal and charm, but lacks depth in both plot and theme.  And having the heroes be two blond children and the villains a woman with dark skin and a man with Asian features is questionable at best.

The unicorns are referred to as the "older" and "younger flying ones" and function as emissaries of the world's deity called simply the Goddess.  Any impetus the plot might have built up was lost when the villainous plot was completely explained by the end of the second issue.