“A headstrong young girl makes a hasty decision and finds herself in a galaxy far, far away in this graphic-novel shining star. It's fun, plenty funny, and more than a little random. Fortunately, Hatke's got them, and he doles out an increasingly loony and charming array of aliens, robots, and unclassifiable blobs and hairy things for Zita (herself a cross between Ramona Quimby and a Matt Phelan waif) to encounter. Any story in which one can escape prison with a tube of "doorpaste" (just like toothpaste, except that it makes magic doors appear when smeared on a wall) obviously puts more stock in wowing imaginations than satisfying logic, and it needs solid cartooning chops to back it up.
She makes some allies, takes off after him, and zany mishaps and dashing adventures ensue. Zita follows and lands on a delightfully bizarre alien planet, where she sees Joseph being captured by a tentacled, scuba-headed creature. Of course, no one could resist pushing a mystery button, which pops open an interdimensional portal that whisks Joseph away. “For no reason at all, a little red button crashes to earth while Zita and her pal Joseph are out cavorting around.
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