The American - Poster Giveaway
Ends Sep 5, 2010
Enter today for your chance to win this full-sized, double-sided theatrical poster from the upcoming Focus Features Film.
Publisher: DC Comics Creative Team: · Bill Morrison · Scott Shaw! · Al Gordon Grade: A
Oh boy! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! They're back! The most diverse cast of superheroes since... since... Heck, they're pretty much a first! These heroes are good -- real good. When it comes to fighting crime, I mean it -- they're animals.
No, really. They're real animals.
If you were too young to read in the 80s, you missed one of the high points of comics publishing: Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, an anthropomorphic group of super-powered funny animals. Led by Captain Carrot, aka Rodney Rabbit, who gets his powers by munching cosmic carrots, the Zoo Crew consisted of Pig Iron, Rubberduck, Fastback, Yankee Poodle, and Alley-Cat-Abra. It was a fun book, and it even had crossovers with Superman and the New Teen Titans (well, at least with Changeling, who used to be Beast Boy who is now Beast Boy again.)
But things have changed during their time in limbo. Alley-Cat-Abra went bad and killed second generation member Little Cheese. The government outlawed super heroes. And the Amazing Zoo Crew were forced to disband, reuniting for special publicity events...
Like the Sandy Eggo Comics Convention, where they are on hand when that fire-throwing lizard, the Salamandroid, shows up to wreak havoc. But having a torch in a giant room full of flammable comics (and the fans who love them) is the least of the Zoo Crew's problems. Because slyly hidden (okay, maybe not hidden -- more like "slightly incognito in the visibly highlighted background) is a subplot that reveals a seething discontent of the aquatic animals with the land animals, stemming from the mysterious death of a young fish named Goldie.
Zoo Crew Boo-Hoos. The news is depressing -- but funny!
Of particular note is the cover -- specifically, the blurb above the cover logo. Yes, this is a Countdown tie-in! It's occurring on one of DC's 52 parallel Earths (Earth 26, to be precise.) And why is that important? Because... well, because it just is, dangit! If it's part of DC continuity (such as it is), then it just can't be casually discarded into limbo again without... well, without a Crisis, at least, and what are the odds of another one of those happening any time soon? I mean, I'm pretty sure that last one was the final one for a while.
Captain Carrot and the Final Ark is brought to us by people who know what they're doing: Bill Morrison plots it all out, while original penciler/creator Scott Shaw! fills the crowded panels with fun, and he hasn't lost a step.
This is not a book to miss, folks! If you've heard of these guys and chalked it all up to urban comics legend, now's your opportunity to find out why all us old timers smile fondly when we talk of the malleable mallard and the torpedoin' terrapin!
