Peach Fuzz

Review covers the full series

I can only imagine the conversation that must have taken place when planning this comic.

“OK, so what comic do you think should we write now? Aliens invading the Earth? Zombie apocalypse? How about something with vampires?”

“Well, how about a little girl, who gets a pet ferret?”

“Do they have any super powers? Do they fight crime?”

“No, they're just a perfectly normal little girl and animal.”

“Wow. That's utter genius. Let's do it!”

All joking aside, my hat goes off to the authors of Peach Fuzz. I'm not being sarcastic, it really is a good idea.

Peach Fuzz tells the story of Amanda, a little girl who's mother buys her a pet ferret to try and keep her happy, and Peach, a ferret princess who is kidnapped from her kingdom and imprisoned in the room of an evil nine-year-old girl.

Amanda's story is nothing out of the ordinary; it focuses on growing up, gaining acceptance from other children, and life in general. Peach's story is part imagination and part fantasy; it's about how how ferrets might see the world in which we force them to live, and how they react. At least, on the assumption that ferrets are a little stupid and see their cage as a dungeon, a bed as a large cloud, and a hand as a monster with five heads.

Both stories are perfectly enjoyable and would probably stand well if told alone. However as events in Amanda's life effect Peach (and sometimes vice versa) both stories inter-merge, giving us two different points of view.

Peach Fuzz is mainly aimed at children, but I enjoyed how this book worked on more than one level. Nowadays I think quite a lot of parents use television as a babysitter of sorts, that they can just park their kids in front of to keep them quite for a bit. But back when people actually supervised what their kids were watching, kids' TV shows often put deeper meanings and jokes in to keep adults entertained.

A similar concept sees to apply here. Children get targeted with storylines such as Amanda learning to deal with her new pet and going to a new school. However, put in for anyone old enough to notice are a few slightly deeper things in the background, such as a single parent trying to cope with raising a child, or children's attitudes towards death and religion.

I enjoyed Peach Fuzz and I could definitely recommend this to someone no matter how old they are, even if not every single page of the the comic is going to be interesting for an adult.