It’s time to talk about the most cheerful adventurer in The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. But is her joyful presence performative, and is there more to her than laughs?

Here are the first drawings of Pickles from October 2014:

Here’s a PDF of the first Pickles and Taft minicomic, which also features Doctor Baer villain Gallus Lugubrious.

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