It’s time for the wave of Free Comic Book Day reviews to start. There aren’t a huge amount of them this time around, but it should still take 2-3 days to finish them all. Strawberry Shortcake was the first issue that I read and it starts the event off on a good note. Strawberry’s bakery is having its 1 year anniversary soon so she decides to bake a cake. Unfortunately, her friends do not agree with this plan as they want the day to be a huge celebration. They order Strawberry to leave everything up to them and one of the friends gives our main character a new hairstyle during the wait. Unfortunately, Strawberry’s friends are always lose without her and this is no exception as they find a way to wreck the party preparations. Can Strawberry save the day before the whole town sees the mess or is it time to move to Equestria?

It’s a fun enough comic. The characters are all good although none of them have any real personality at the moment. They’re all nice friends who try their best to help out, but to learn about them as individuals you would need to take a peak at the character bios or watch the show I suppose. The art is decently good although one scene was a little iffy. Strawberry sees her new “bad” haircut and is dismayed, but it actually looks fairly good so you have to wonder why she is so sad. Personally I’d say that the design is rather busy so I wouldn’t want it to replace her current look, but it’s just about as good. It’s certainly not bad like the story was trying to suggest. Aside from that, the colors were nice and vibrant.

Strawberry Shortcake has always reminded me of My Little Pony. The only real difference being that this series is a little lighter on action and they’re all human for the most part. If you’re looking for a happy little adventure, then this is the stop for you. There are a lot of berry puns and you all know how much I enjoy a good one liner. Buy the full series to keep up with these characters and hopefully the supporting figures learn how to be a little more self reliant as the series goes on. They don’t have to be natural experts like Strawberry, but they made so many mistakes in the span of an hour that one can see how much room for improvement there is. Who knows, maybe Strawberry can personally teach them how to get good at setting up parties. Let’s see if the next few comics can match this one.

Overall 6/10