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Cinders
As
her name suggests, Cinders was a fairytale dragon
who could breathe fire. She was an amorous beastie who
wore pearls on her dragon ears, loved to use lipstick
and
perfume and dwelt in a pretty cave garbed with lace
curtains
and a heart above the entrance. But the focus of her
over-amourous inclinations wasn't a male dragon. Instead,
our Cinders was besotted with the idea of wooing a
handsome Knight in Armour - so besotted, in fact, she
brought chaos to the kingdom with her ungainly pursuits.
Knights and Courtiers alike were terrified of the
pouting lizard....
Each strip started with our Cinders sighing and bemoaning
the
lack of visiting Knights. She would then trot off to
find one, and
when she did, drive them to wrack and ruin. They would
flee to
the hills as soon as her back was turned...
Cinders featured unique speech bubbles when e'er she
talked.
They all came out heart-shaped, accentuating her impassioned
thoughts. But alas, neither those Knights or Cinders
herself
stuck around for long. The strip held the privileged
back cover
slot in Monster Fun each week for just twelve issues
before it
was dropped. And the poor gal never appeared at all
in the
Monster Fun Annuals. Indeed, so far I've only tracked
down
on reprinted appearance sixteen years later in a 1991
Funny
Fortnightly edition...
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