Friday, January 6, 2006

Return of Captain Carrot, part two: electric "Infinite Crisis" boogaloo

Today, I bought "Teen Titans" #31, solely for part two of the "return" of Captain Carrot. Page-by-page comments below:

Page one: Different art, with no specific credit given to who drew it---presumably the artist in the regular "Titans" story in this issue?

"Marvel Bunny Jr.": In the 1940's, Fawcett Comics, the publishers of Captain Marvel's adventures, published the adventures of Captain Marvel Bunny, a funny-animal version of Cap. Apparently, Marvel Jr. here is some Earth-C dwelling funny-animal counterpart of Captain Marvel Jr.

"Amazing Ant": a parody of 1960's Hanna-Barbara superhero Atom Ant?

Page two: The Z-shaped building is the "Z-Building", the headquarters of the Zoo Crew, located in beautiful "Follywood, Califurnia" (Hollywood, California).

When Rodney ate a "cosmic carrot", he gained 24 hours of superpowers (Golden Age Superman-style ones----a super-powered leap, superstrength and invulnerability specifically).

Page three: The "United Species of America" = the "United States of America."

Wondering if the "last American eagle" lines are a reference to some movie or something.

Page four: Alley-Kat-Abra's the killer? *Sigh*... there goes another beloved light-hearted comic book memory, especially since I liked her character. Maybe some future appearance of the team will show she's really being mind-controlled or something...

Fastback's been sent to---the future. Which I suspected from the first part saying he was "missing"----since it's a pretty common comic cliche (and super-speedster one!)...

"Carrie Carrot" might be a parody of the female Robin in "Dark Knight Returns".

All in all, while I see it was meant to be a parody, given that these guys probably won't be appearing again anytime soon, seeing them all dark and grim and stuff didn't leave me feeling too chipper in the end, I guess.

As for the "Titans" "main" story: More "Infinite Crisis" filler, plus a bunch of misspelled words and bad grammar ("Where they hell did they come from?" and "I'm not a good guy or a bad guy. I just to be left alone.") that seem surprising for something that's supposed to be professionally produced (and are charging us $2.50 per issue).

Oh, well... back to buying "Uncle Scrooge" and reprints of old comics.

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