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Today, There She Grows will feature a trio of requested reviews. The first will be “Upsy Daisy” from Giantess Fan. An anonymous blog reader requested this in late June.
Ylenia Di Napoli colored this two-issue series, Salo drew it, and Mac Rome wrote it. This series appears to be Salo’s only work for Giantess Fan. Another series, “Training Ground,” credits Salomon as its artist, but presumably Salo and Salomon are different people. At the very least, their art looks different.
By the way, if I may digress for a moment, Salo or Сало is a Russian and Ukrainian word referring to a salt-cured slab of pig fat, think of it as an extra-fatty strip of bacon. I have no way of knowing if the artist took their nom de plume from that Slavic dish, but maybe they did! Also, not for nothing, but Mykhailo Poplavsky’s (Михайло Поплавський) Ukrainian song Salo is a real banger 🙂
In contrast to Salo’s modest body of work, Mac Rome has edited and written a number of comic series for Interweb Comics. These include, but certainly are not limited to, “Bigger Than This,” “Growing the Franchise,” and “Ziggurat.”
The plot of Upsy Daisy is simple and more than adequately explained in the official description. It stars a woman named Daisy Klingen. A stranger called “Selah” (a Hebrew word used many times in the Book of Psalms to praise God) accosts Daisy on the street and informs Daisy that her height will increase by a factor of 10 every time Daisy says “Upsy Daisy.” This size increase will enable Daisy to protect the Earth from an unidentified threat.
(SIDE NOTE: Selah was not used in the New Testament. Instead, it only appeared in what Christians call the Old Testament and what Jews call the Tanakh. So, was the use of an exclusively Old Testament word a subtle message that we should all become Jewish? 😉 I do not think so. Presumably, the choice to name the character Selah was because it sounded cool plus it had ancient and significant meaning. Still, it’s funny to consider the potential implication. Maybe Christians need a comic in which a woman yells “The power of Christ compels you to GROW!”)
I said the description more than adequately explained the plot because there were no surprises or unexpected twists. Daisy was told she would grow larger than the Earth in order to defend the planet and so she does without the slightest whiff of drama or tension. Typically, spoilers should be avoided like the plague, but in this case it feels necessary to ensure readers are aware that everything takes place without a hitch. Therefore the biggest criticism of this series is the lack of excitement.
The artwork did not help either. It wasn’t bad per se, but it was also not great. Daisy looked sexy in both issues. Little details did not match though. To give one example, while her clothes were destroyed during the very first growth sequence, Daisy’s earrings still fit comfortably even when she was 500 feet tall! The proof can be seen in the following image. Those earrings must have been truly massive when she was only five feet tall.
Furthermore, the earrings (apparently) grow with her even when she reached a height exceeding thousands of feet!
In issue 2 the earrings mysteriously disappeared. Presumably, by that point the artist remembered to stop drawing the earrings. Furthermore, in one panel it seems that a real photo was used for a background and then blurred to make it fit with the drawn figure and drawn clouds of dust. At least, that’s my assumption. The panel in question is shown below. What do you think?
Long-time readers of Interweb Comics have already seen attractive women combat cosmic adversaries, such as comparatively small alien space ships, in older Giantess Fan series such as the aforementioned Bigger Than This, “Flagship Fannie,” and “From the Stars.” (NOTE: In that last example, the protagonist was regular human-size interacting with tiny aliens.) All of those other illustrated stories have more to offer than Upsy Daisy.
That’s it for this review. Check out the other requested reviews also posting today!
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