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Giant-Size Animal-Things: CCAHAZC #3
Do you like stories where heroes fight giants? Do you REALLY like them? Hope so, 'cause this issue has FOUR of them. Not just four giants...four hero-versus-giant fight SCENES. (Five if you count a quick fantasy sequence.)
Last time, the Zoo Crew was sweating their image. Their world-saving battle had taken place on Pluto with zero witnesses. Then one of their members had gone ham and wrecked a city block, with PLENTY of witnesses. How could they come back from that?
Well, as it turns out, having a connected celebrity journalist as a member really pays off. Take a bow, Rova (Yankee Poodle): without you, this team might have gotten worse press than the X-Men.
However, the ol' "team splits into smaller teams" story structure is not kind to Rova. One pair of heroes goes off to flirt shamelessly; another gets to go sunbathing on a cruise liner. And Rova?
Meanwhile...
Roy Thomas loved to bring back characters from deep-cut comics history: he'd do it with Avengers, Invaders, and All-Star Squadron. In Captain Carrot, this impulse translated into powering up characters from decades-old funny-animal comics, like J. Fenimore Frog here as well as...Peter Porkchops.
[Edit: Porkchops at least was Scott Shaw!'s suggestion. As the letter's page explained, "He and Roy just tend to think alike!"]
Meanwhile, Cap and Abra defeat Jailhouse Roc, a giant bird who thinks it's still the 1950s.
A frustrated Brother Hood turns the Linkidd Memorial statue into a mecha and tries to kill the Zoo Crew with it. Pig-Iron is 100% absolutely stronger than Captain Carrot, who is living in denial, ya hate to see it.
Shockingly, Brother Hood's plan to fight six united superheroes with one giant works no better than his plan to fight them in pairs with three giants. Any remaining gravitas he had left over from his earlier appearances, where he seemed as sinister as Palpatine crossed with Darth Vader, dissipates fast.
"Feathers" Fillmore would, of course, get a presidential pardon from the next administration, steal his brother's name, and become an arrogant cutthroat repeatedly and outrageously subverting this innocent country as a political commentator.
Next issue: An episode of House Hunters ends with the death of Swamp Thing.
Last time, the Zoo Crew was sweating their image. Their world-saving battle had taken place on Pluto with zero witnesses. Then one of their members had gone ham and wrecked a city block, with PLENTY of witnesses. How could they come back from that?
Well, as it turns out, having a connected celebrity journalist as a member really pays off. Take a bow, Rova (Yankee Poodle): without you, this team might have gotten worse press than the X-Men.
However, the ol' "team splits into smaller teams" story structure is not kind to Rova. One pair of heroes goes off to flirt shamelessly; another gets to go sunbathing on a cruise liner. And Rova?
Meanwhile...
Roy Thomas loved to bring back characters from deep-cut comics history: he'd do it with Avengers, Invaders, and All-Star Squadron. In Captain Carrot, this impulse translated into powering up characters from decades-old funny-animal comics, like J. Fenimore Frog here as well as...Peter Porkchops.
[Edit: Porkchops at least was Scott Shaw!'s suggestion. As the letter's page explained, "He and Roy just tend to think alike!"]
Meanwhile, Cap and Abra defeat Jailhouse Roc, a giant bird who thinks it's still the 1950s.
A frustrated Brother Hood turns the Linkidd Memorial statue into a mecha and tries to kill the Zoo Crew with it. Pig-Iron is 100% absolutely stronger than Captain Carrot, who is living in denial, ya hate to see it.
Shockingly, Brother Hood's plan to fight six united superheroes with one giant works no better than his plan to fight them in pairs with three giants. Any remaining gravitas he had left over from his earlier appearances, where he seemed as sinister as Palpatine crossed with Darth Vader, dissipates fast.
"Feathers" Fillmore would, of course, get a presidential pardon from the next administration, steal his brother's name, and become an arrogant cutthroat repeatedly and outrageously subverting this innocent country as a political commentator.
Next issue: An episode of House Hunters ends with the death of Swamp Thing.
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