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The only thing I don’t get about this comic is why Petunia is playing second fiddle to Todd Allison in the comic’s title when she’s clearly the main character. It alternates between serious and silly so fast that you can’t do anything but laugh. The secret, I think, to the humor of Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet is that it’s so utterly absurd! Its cartoonish jokes are taken way past a reasonable point, and constantly juxtaposed with the dark story of murder and intrigue being told. Nothing but hard boiled crime happening here, folks. Honestly, I keep waiting for the point where I’ll get sick of it, but it hasn’t come yet. Slapstick is kid stuff, right? People being silly when they should be serious, or yelling about something insignificant, seems like the kind of humor that belongs in a cartoon. It sounds like a formula that would get old. No one is polite, everyone overreacts, in every scene someone is either mortified or infuriated, and Petunia’s always falling on her face or down stairs or out windows. People are constantly either doing strange things or giving hilarious reaction shots to other people doing strange things. The plot’s thick enough to stand a spoon in, but that’s not the important part! And, okay, yes, Elijah may or may not be secretly hatching plans against the very government he works for. And yes, the person who hires thugs to kill Todd Allison for his investigations turns out to be Petunia’s brother, parliamentary neonate Elijah.

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Okay, yes Todd Allison (who is always addressed by full name) is on the committee investigating Violet. It’s actually about a goofy, nervous young woman named Petunia, and her unusual relationship with her next-door neighbor, the dour and humorless Todd Allison, and the weird faces they constantly make at each other.

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This is a historical crime drama, set in 1920s Melbourne, about a serial arsonist – the mysterious and elegant Violet – who targets government buildings, and the special parliamentary task force assigned to investigate these crimes and discover Violet’s identipffffffffftt hahaha I can’t do it. You might think, “Don’t they like anything serious?” Sure I do! Allow me to introduce you to Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet. If you’ve read my list, you might think, “This person reads a lot of scifi and fantasy comics.” You’d be right. If you're a humorless snob, you'll hate it. If you like crime dramas, you'll like this. A The Verdict If you like period pieces, you'll like this.