Tris Legomenon

Billy the Dunce is one of the comics that I’m most excited about right now. The premise is fairly basic: Billy is the only normal kid at a boarding school for child geniuses. He gets dragged, sometimes willingly and sometimes not, through the wacky adventures of his more gifted classmates. The art is polished in a kid’s cartoon style but what sells it to me is the characters. There are a lot of good dynamics. Budding magician vs. budding scientist. Billy’s alternating befuddlement and disdain over the trouble his friends get into. And, my favorite, the thickly accented eight year old succubus who is extravagantly gleeful over everything that irritates or disgusts the other children.