Hurrah! We’d like to thank the Academy, and all of the people involved. Especially the little iPhone elves who do all the coding for us.

We LOVE reviews. Phil Barnett, has written a great review of our first comic (number 2 is coming!) and here it is: 

Review of Eye Candy: Masked Marshal #1 “Mah Pony Must Be Punished”
By Phil Barnett, aged 12 (writer of Finland, Finland, Finland)

 So the Masked Marshal. It’s a very good and funny comic. The artwork is amazing and very well designed for theiPhone. (My dad’s iPhone 3G anyway.)

 

 The software via which you read the comic is amazing, especially that with a flick of the finger up and down, you can change the panels between pencils, inks, and full colours. This would help children who are artistic, children who like drawing ‘sausage people’ can copy it off the screen and see how the characters and the panels develop from rough planning to full coloured panels. I’d love to see even more stages shown between blank page and finished panel.

 The extras are as brilliant as the main comic. The idea of being allowed to recolour the comic is genius! (But it would be nice to be able to save the drawings you create [a fix is coming! - PJH].)  How could I not mention one of the greatest extras (I feel): the ability to make the pony’s eyes go wibble wobble just by shaking the iPhone. [Shake it harder - it'll neigh! - PJH]

 That’s all the good things.

 Now all the bad… honestly, I couldn’t find any! The comic is better than I could have thought of.  In all the hoopla of how good the software and format are, please remember that it’s a very funny comic.

 For future updates I wouldn’t mind seeing a animated version of it. Or under the extras could be a quiz about the story. Also a little bio of the creators and characters.  Or even a link to the creators’ websites.

With the painting, it’s very easy to go over the ink lines and an option for younger children to keep the colours inside the ink lines would probably make it more enjoyable for them (and for adults who can’t do it without that option. No names mentioned, of course, eh Dad?).

 To finish my review of this brilliant comic, I think it’s a very good app and is perfect for younger children.

Yeah! Thanks Phil - we’re all happy you like it - if anyone else wants to send us a review (and there’s some crackers on the iTunes website) we’ll be more than happy to print them. Not only that, but if you see anything you think could be better - we’ll do our darn-tooten’ist best to try and make it better!

-pj