Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short Issue #1 takes place after the events of The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul and before the events of The Interconnectedness of all Kings. In this first issue, Gently is called by his friend Sally Mills to the Woodshead Hospital, where she works as a nurse. There is a family of New Hampshireites which has lost the ability to communicate, and Sally, dressed as a sexy nurse for Halloween, wants Gently to figure out what's gone wrong.
There are two letterings used in this comic. Dirk Gently's thoughts are in a sans-serif font, and everything else is lettered by Robbie Robbins. I wasn't familiar with the author, Arvind Ethan David, this being his first comic and all, but he's a Malaysian-born, British filmmaker who wrote "Dirk," a play based on the Douglas Adams character that is the star of this series. He manages to collect Adams's humor, his wit. The series is playful, with an adventurous tone. I look forward to reading Gently's trip to Africa in the next issue.
The artwork by Ilias Kyriazis, a Greek comic-book artist, is fantastic. It's been some years since I read the two "Dirk Gently" novels by Douglas Adams, but Kyiazis presents a fully formed vision of what Gently looks like, with hair going in every which direction. The colors by Charlie Kirchoff present a conspicuous color scheme based on blue but with a variety of appropriate colors for Gently's orange jacket, for instance. Overall, this title is better than it really had to be.
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