There's a coloring error: Pesto's standard representation has his right eye brown and his left one green.Drawn by: Walter Carzon and Mike DeCarlo
A very tight close-up of Pesto on an orange background, pointing and shouting at the reader: "You laughin' at me?! Whaddya youse think i'm funny like a clown? Do I amuse ya?"
There's a coloring error: Pesto's standard representation has his right eye brown and his left one green.
Dot's sitting in a doctor's office, reading a magazine. She reveals the Warners' secret to staying cute for fifty years: clean living, a high-fiber diet, and plastic surgery. Yakko comes out and shows Dot the results of his tummy tuck. Dot decides not to have anything done, since she'd exceed human tolerance levels for cuteness. After a bit of a wait, Wakko comews out, and shows off his new look...which will take a while to fix, so the Warners depart until next month.
The Warners are on the cover of People Magazine. The doctors: Dr. I. Baggs and Dr. Sally U. Lite...appropriate names for plastic surgeons (eye bags and cellulite). Dot's legs aren't colored in completely at the top of page 2.We zoom in on an alley in the big city. They've finally gotten around to doing a story with the "second bananas", as Rita puts it, although Runt objects that they're really dogs. As they walk out of the alley, a wealthy old lady, Mrs. Coldstreak, passes them in her limousine. She marvels at how at ease the two are with each other. She decides to add them to her collection of stuffed animals, and tries to lure them into her car, but Rita gets a hunch and they run off. Determined to have them, Mrs. Coldstreak instructs her chauffeur to send for Mace Ventura.
Rita and Runt manage to lose the old lady. Rita sees this as an opportunity to break into song, but Runt stops her, pointing out that the readers can't hear the music. Just then, they're trampled by a horde of animals running away from something. It turns out to be Ventura, who is trying to fulfill Mrs. Coldstreak's assignment. He pulls out a long knife, intending to skin the pair, but Runt knocks him down as they run off, and Ventura takes it personally.
Ventura climbs a nearby building, and tries to jump the pair, but Runt spots a fire hydrant and runs out from under the falling hunter. He decides that he will use whatever means are necessary to fulfill his assignment. Meanwhile, Runt talks Rita out of singing again. Ventura attacks them with an old biplane fighter. Rita leads him down the street, to where he crashes into Mrs. Coldstreak's car. As they make their escape, Rita complains that it's just not the same without the songs.
The title refers to the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The story borrows little from the movie, however; mainly the Ventura character, along with mannerisms, dress, and some expressions. It's worth noting that the character in the film displays none of the hostility toward animals that Ventura does in this story toward Rita and Runt. Squit is one of the animals fleeing from Ventura on page 8. Ventura's comments at the top of page 13 refer to the Comics Code Authority, the agency that approves comics as being suitable for children. DC's Vertigo titles aren't aimed at children, and so aren't CCA-approved. One radial engine found on biplanes of that era was the Pratt and Whitney Wasp. On the whole, one of the most error-free stories so far...I could find only one nit, and it's little: Rita's nose isn't colored in on the first panel on page 7.The Godpigeon walks in on another regular day with the Goodfeathers - Pesto's about to beat up on Squit over another misunderstanding - and orders them to get a cannoli from his favorite bakery, La Dolce Vita. A simple assignment, right? Go in, get the cannoli, fly off with it...
They go in to the bakery just in time to see the last cannoli served to a patron. The Goodfeathers try to intimidate the patron out of eating the sweet, only to discover that he's the famous singer, Frank Pigeonatra. They quickly apologize and extricate themselves from the situation - and then remember the cannoli. Since the Godpigeon wanted it, they must get it, Frank or no Frank.
Since they can't just take it, they have to use trickery. First, they act like a bunch of tourists and sing along with him; then, Squit goes in, dressed as Frank's ex-wife, Nancy; Pesto tries acting like a waiter, only to get insulted by the singer...and each time, they forget to get the cannoli before leaving. Finally, Bobby gets it by telling Frank that it was made by a chef with a case of intestinal flu.
They return to the Godpigeon, having accomplished their mission. He informs them that he wanted it for a dear friend who comes to their city just to eat cannoli from that particular bakery, and a great entertainer as well...
La Dolce Vita means "the sweet life" in Italian. The singer is, of course, a reference to legendary singer Frank Sinatra, whose career has been dogged with accusations of Mafia connections. "Ole Coo Eyes" refers to one nickname, "Old Blue Eyes". As with the cover, Pesto's eyes are miscolored...but here, they're both blue. Squit's "Anybody notice...?" comments are a little overdone; he only uses them once in about every three cartoons.This is a new twist on the old Sleeping Beauty story. Instead of sleeping until a prince comes to kiss her and wake her up, Minerva Mink is cursed to shop with a new credit card, with no interest for five months...a horrible fate, to be sure.
Minerva heads off to the local mall to obey the curse. She produces the usual reaction - eye-popping adoration - from every male she encounters, including the Warner brothers. After buying a huge stack of clothes, she calls for her prince and is mobbed by dogs of all shapes and sizes, all named Prince, or something even remotely related. She gets away from them, and is met by an artist formerly known as Prince, but dumps him when he admits to not being Prince any more. Prince Charles shows up, but doesn't last long either.
It seems that nobody has what it takes to be Minerva's prince. She consoles herself with a pair of sunglasses, then falls for the cashier - who has no interest in her at all. She chases him out of the mall, with every male in the place in tow.
In the first picture in the mall, we see Geoffrey, the trademark giraffe of the Toys R Us chain, and Ubbe Eyeworks, a reference to vintage cartoon director Ub Iwerks. Plucky Duck and Shirley Loon, from Tiny Toon Adventures, appear in the first panel on page 29, and one of the dogs later down the page is Runt. The musician is a good caricature of the artist formerly known as Prince, although his unpronounceable symbol is a bit overblown. That's definitely Prince Charles; the ears and nose are a dead giveaway. Plucky (with an anvil from The Anvil Outlet) and the Warners reappear in the closing panel. Sternecky doesn't try to follow the model sheet as exactly as other pencillers, instead going for a more loosely drawn interpretation of the characters. While that works well for the Warners and Pinky and the Brain, his Minerva suffers a bit, mainly in that she comes out looking a bit fatter than she has in the cartoons. This is probably due to the smaller height of her head compared to its width than usual, and in panels where she's surprised or excited, her head looks much closer to normal; see, for example, the second panel on page 29, and compare it to the second-to-last panel on the same page. Unlike her depiction here, the standard Minerva doesn't wear lipstick unless she's consciously dressing up. Minerva's tail is missing in the frilly turquoise dress on page 30. Dot's flower has somehow gotten added to the mushed-together Warners on page 32.