Comic Review: Bee and Puppycat #8

So. Many. Stories.

The lead story is “Pancoma.” Bee wants to eat a lot of pancakes. However, the pancake restaurant is super expensive. When Puppycat shows up, she notices a sign advertising “all u can eet cheap pancaks” with an arrow pointing at the alley nearby. Of course, she can’t turn down cheap pancakes. The pancakes are being sold by a shady man in a trenchcoat. It turns out he is selling counterfeit pancakes! The shady man whips off his trenchcoat to reveal that he is a huge stack of pancakes himself! This is when Bee wakes up. Puppycat tells her that she went into the expensive restaurant anyway and ordered 12 pancakes. Then she fell into a pancoma.

Next up is “Sweaters.” Bee finds Puppycat sleeping on her sweater. In order to stop this, she moves all of her clothes so Puppycat can’t reach them. Somehow, he reaches them anyway. So she locks her clothes in a trunk. Somehow, he reaches them anyway.

“Snapshots” is the third story. Bee has recorded a video to show a cute dress she has made for Puppycat. Unfortunately, when she opens the door to her room, she finds Puppycat destroying the dress. He wants a leather jacket.

In “Dream On,” Puppycat is dreaming that he is driving a motorcycle. He flails around as he dreams of vrooming around in the moonlight. He flails so much that he falls off the bed.

“The Last” is a short story that everyone can relate to. It is the last chocolate bar and Bee is trying to split it into two equal parts!

Finally, we get a longer story with “Bubbles.” Bee and Puppycat are blowing bubbles as they watch Pretty Patrick. A loud, annoying noise permeates the apartment, just as Patrick was about to reveal his salad dressing of the week. The pair leave the apartment to find the source of the noise. It turns out that it is Cardamon practicing his recorder. An angry Puppycat accidentally spills all of Bee’s bubble juice into the recorder. Cardamon blows into the recorder, creating a huge bubble. The bubble pops and beautiful music flows out. Cardamon takes this to mean that he has mastered the recorder and heads back inside.

Cardamon makes another appearance in “Tubberware.” Bee is trying to clean all of the caked-on meatloaf out of Deckard’s pan. She tries everything to no avail. Using Puppycat’s advice, she calls Cardamon, claiming it is an emergency. When Cardamon finds out why Bee called him, he smacks her over the head with his elephant-shaped watering can.

The final story in this issue is “The Blues.” Puppycat tries his hardest to get Bee out of bed. However, it seems that Bee is suffering from some terrible cramps. Needing advice, Puppycat turns to Temp-bot. Temp-bot sends him to Devon’s Artificially Constructed Magical Fun Carnival. After completing a few jobs, Puppycat is paid with a chocolate bar. He returns to Bee’s apartment to give her the chocolate, only to find Deckard feeding her chocolate he made. Puppycat passes out from frustration.

I’m not sure what to think of this issue. There were a lot of short stories but I feel like these stories work better as an animated short than as a comic. Maybe it’s because all of the artwork for each individual story is different. Maybe it’s the superb voice acting that we don’t get in text. Either way, this issue feels like it went for quantity over quality. Like fanfiction at it’s most mediocre.