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  Strypll – Girl Cartoonist: Mystery Waves If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a pencil sharpener and wondering if rogue frequencies from a nearby government building were the reason it just won’t work, Ronald Hicks has written the comic for you. Strypll – Girl Cartoonist: Mystery Waves , published by Alt-Town Media , is a 20-page, black-and-white digest size comic that feels like a fever dream you’d actually want to stay in. It’s a brisk, surreal tour through Alt-Town, a place where the laws of physics and culinary arts are merely polite suggestions. The narrative flows like a series of quick-fire transmissions from a dimension that is much more interesting than our own. One moment, you’re witnessing the sheer carbohydrate-heavy glory of a Donut Deluge , where the sky opens up with fried dough, and the next, you’re learning about the Subliminal Bagel rewards program, which finally gives us a reason to track our daily mileage. Hicks excels at finding the humor in the hype...