Yo Zingerfans! On Monday I pointed out the need for more bird comic strips. I mean, we all agree that there aren’t enough birds in comics, right? It’s a universal understanding I am sure. So today I bring you The Boids comic strip by cartoonists Campbell and Merrill, first names Larry and Steve (though I couldn’t find who goes with which last name).

It’s a pretty zing new strip about a robotic bird named ‘Flock Unit 2A-6′ built to study real birds, and who accidentally gets separated from the robot flock only to end up in the company of feathered friends. The initial batch of strips are still focusing on the setup of this premise. Like other robotic animal strips, the humor somewhat lacks because of this situational approach. This is very natural for new strips so give it a chance already. It’s a bird strip after all. Once the characters are more developed, this strip will really zing! That doesn’t mean there aren’t good ones in there already. This one really tickled my feathers!

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I also dig the art. At first I was a little put off by the execution of 2A-6 himself. He looks more like origami than mechanics but then it grew on me. I zing his simple, iconic visual style next to the more realistic birds. Two wings up from me! What do you think?

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