Sunday, February 15, 2015

Digitally Speaking...26 "Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter

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Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter (Great Beast)
From 2013.

Ever wonder what might happen if you crossed Scott Pilgrim with Buffy the Vampire Slayer?  Wonder no more...

Chloe Noonan started out as Marc Ellerby's version of Buffy if she didn't have powers.  It kind of got a lot more loose from there.  Chloe's life is more about her friendship with Zoe, in some ways her polar opposite (though equally powerless), and only incidentally about fighting monsters.

Actually, the monster bit is one of the more notable aspects of Ellerby's storytelling, and not for the obvious reasons.  Ellerby's monsters aren't scary so much as unwanted social elements Chloe is just trying to clear out of the way.  Maybe in a different context this would be biting commentary, but as I said, Ellerby tends toward a Scott Pilgrim style.

The fact that Chloe (and by extension everyone else) is British doesn't come up right away, but then it becomes important, insofar as anything else that happens is important.  It's goofy fun in a cartoon kind of way.  That's about the sum of this stuff: it can easily be pictured as a cartoon.

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