10/16: You Can't Go Home Again
This is not even remotely webcomics.
For ten years, there has been no one comic I have wanted to see published more than Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, Volume 2, Number 1. I've pitched it twice. I worked with Jim Keplinger and Ross Andru on one version of it and with Cat Garza on another. I've co-written two fanfics, wrote a set of essays about it, and considered a book. And I promised myself that if anybody got to revive the Captain instead of me, I wouldn't be petty about it. I'd just enjoy seeing my old friends, brought back to life.
My prayers have finally been answered. And really, I'm not sure my feelings could have been anything but mixed. At one moment I'm lost in nostalgia, Shaw's art and the nice little character bits worked in around the edges, at the next I'm obsessing over problems with tone, continuity errors (I spotted at least five) and odd "choices of moment" (the stuff that Captain Carrot only tells us about in soliloquy seems like it would have been a lot more interesting to see than some of the scenes that we got).
(Are we ALLOWED to complain about continuity errors in DC Comics any more? I know this is Earth-26 and not Earth-C and it's all because Mister Mind ate the Earth-Prime Superboy or something. As far as I can tell, this has thrown DC into a state of quantum uncertainty, where it both does and does not have years of continuity at its disposal, depending on what is most convenient at any particular moment. I'm not asking for the moon here, but when the series' main villain goes from a solar-powered robot slave to his very own ecoterrorist and NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE, I get a bit confused.)
What this means is that I am no longer eight years old. I've traded in my ability to enjoy something completely, warthogs and all, for the kind of analysis that makes my own scripts better. Most days I don't regret that trade-off. Today I do, a little.
Geez, I hope I'm not just being jealous.
At least the story is a lot more enjoyable than the Zoo Crew's Johns-Shaw Teen Titans appearance. But it'd almost have to be.
For ten years, there has been no one comic I have wanted to see published more than Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, Volume 2, Number 1. I've pitched it twice. I worked with Jim Keplinger and Ross Andru on one version of it and with Cat Garza on another. I've co-written two fanfics, wrote a set of essays about it, and considered a book. And I promised myself that if anybody got to revive the Captain instead of me, I wouldn't be petty about it. I'd just enjoy seeing my old friends, brought back to life.
My prayers have finally been answered. And really, I'm not sure my feelings could have been anything but mixed. At one moment I'm lost in nostalgia, Shaw's art and the nice little character bits worked in around the edges, at the next I'm obsessing over problems with tone, continuity errors (I spotted at least five) and odd "choices of moment" (the stuff that Captain Carrot only tells us about in soliloquy seems like it would have been a lot more interesting to see than some of the scenes that we got).
(Are we ALLOWED to complain about continuity errors in DC Comics any more? I know this is Earth-26 and not Earth-C and it's all because Mister Mind ate the Earth-Prime Superboy or something. As far as I can tell, this has thrown DC into a state of quantum uncertainty, where it both does and does not have years of continuity at its disposal, depending on what is most convenient at any particular moment. I'm not asking for the moon here, but when the series' main villain goes from a solar-powered robot slave to his very own ecoterrorist and NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE, I get a bit confused.)
What this means is that I am no longer eight years old. I've traded in my ability to enjoy something completely, warthogs and all, for the kind of analysis that makes my own scripts better. Most days I don't regret that trade-off. Today I do, a little.
Geez, I hope I'm not just being jealous.
At least the story is a lot more enjoyable than the Zoo Crew's Johns-Shaw Teen Titans appearance. But it'd almost have to be.
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