Zoe Gardner's Fault

• Brian Donaldson
• 14 August 2008

This article is from 2008.

Previously one half of the Congress of Oddities, Gardner is hardly to blame for there being a dearth of quality character comics this year and she does her utmost to pull the genre out of the mire. Sticking a wig on to play her shrill producer and grabbing a clipboard to be a vacuous care worker is fine and well, but an over-reliance on sub-standard creations lets her down.

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