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Pony School is a British Fanzine that recreates girls' Comics of the 1960s and 70s, edited, written and drawn by Edward Berridge and Bryan Coyle, and published under their Death Camp Jones Productions ('''DCJ''') imprint. It is part of a wave of Small Press comics spearheaded by '' Solar Wind '' that adopt a standpoint of mixed Irony and Nostalgia . The central conceit of the book is that it purports to be a modern day update of a Comic Strip that originally saw print in the imaginary ''Action Stations Boys Weekly'' and ''Fairytale Princess for Girls'', published by the fictional company P.T. Dunbar. It is written to be the direct antithesis to the work of writers like Anthony Horowitz and films like ''Teen Agent'' that typify the teen spy genre. PLOT The story revolves around the character of teenaged orphan Penny Ryder, forced to work for the British Secret Intelligence Service (or MI6 ) by the enigmatic Malcolm Jarvis, who is involved in some manner with her parent's deaths. The story switches focus between Ryder's exploits against foreign terror threats and her day to day life at the Muggeridge Equestrian Academy in Berkshire . Here she has to battle against the prejudice and scorn of her classroom peers, whilst learning the finer points of dressage and attempts to avoid regular assassination attempts by Svetlanka Borrokova, her Russian schoolyard nemesis. CHARACTERS
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FURTHER DCJ PUBLICATIONS The spin-off anthology comic '' Action Stations! '' not only parodies UK Girl's comics, but also War , Sport , Westerns and Children's Humour titles amongst others. As well as a 'period' Pony School story, it also includes strips such as Misty the Teen Detective, Secret Agent Skipper, StabFoot, Destroy all Japs! and The White Samurai. Other titles under production include the Manga -influenced ''Shido'' digest, ''Wild West Wendy'' and the second issue of ''Pony School'' (''PS2''). PONY SCHOOL ISSUES
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