I did a more lengthy review of the first Kim and Kim mini-series 2.5 years ago, but in short: Kimber Dantzler and Kimiko Quatro are bounty hunters. They're not unskilled, but they are unlucky, as all their bounties go awry somehow. So they're usually broke, either living out of their interstellar capable VW Bus, or having Kim D. resort to asking her parents for money. Kim Q's dad is a lot better off financially, but there's a whole other mess of issues there.
Visaggio takes what feels like an odd approach with the story, in that most of it involves the Kims trying to help a guy with a large bounty on his head return to his home dimension, rather than turn him in for the bounty. But the actual conclusion to that is sort of handwaved by having the Kims explain to two other friends that they woke up the next morning and everyone was just gone, so they assume mission accomplished. There's some fallout from the whole thing still to contend with, but it's such an abrupt resolution.
That they're usually broke makes more sense in that context, however. They careen from one thing to the next, and on the rare occasion Kim D. comes up with a plan, either she botches it, or Kim Q. gets impatient and starts a bar fight.
Aguirre keeps the book in bright colors, so everything's vivid, and Cabrera's art is both expressive enough to handle a quiet conversation between Kim D and her presumed-dead aunt, or a loud argument between Kim Q. and whoever she happens to be picking a fight with at that moment. The art's not grounded in trying to look photo-realistic, which is a good thing when the setting includes sandworms, octopus people and a Franken-Ape.
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