Star-Crossed Crossover Stars: CCAHAZC #15
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scans_dailyEmbarrassing personal revelations to follow this one!
Last time out, the Zoo Crewers had met their match--their other-dimensional counterpart, the Just'a Lotta Animals. The heroes had been herded to the Zoo Crew's Earth-C, leaving a villain alliance free to take charge of the Just'a Lotta Animals' world, Earth-C-Minus.
(Incidentally, newer heroes like Green Sparrow, Elong-gator, and Firestork are on a separate mission in deep space, which explains why the JLA is currently Just'a Six'a Animals. Sorry, I had to cut something.)
The figures along the bottom of the cover are more deep cuts from DC Comics' funny-animal publishing history. One, Bo Bunny, would pop up in a Captain Carrot story before all was said and done.
The Zoo Crew embark on an interdimensional road trip to find Earth-C-Minus, but they end up making a few detours.
Again the group splits into four teams of three, with a little representation of both teams in each subteam, to fight four villains in four different settings.
Once the action kicks in, the art shifts over from Scott Shaw! to Rick Hoberg, and the scripting from Shaw! to E. Nelson Bridwell. The latter difference is barely noticeable, even to a fan: all the main Captain Carrot writers seemed to be on the same page about action and humor. (Maybe not romance, though.) The art change is more of a shift, but Hoberg's style is lots of fun to look at!
The group reunites to mop up the cabal's leaders:
Hoot's death-ray includes some Chiptonite radiation to take out Super-Squirrel, and he promises to turn Pig-Iron to slag, but...
(Gotta love Pig-Iron in moments like this. He's just so happy to be himself.)
Which means there's nothing left to do but for the teams to take their respective Earths' villains and go home...and for the Captain and Wonder Wabbit to end their summer fling.
True confessions time: this ending wrecked me when I read it as a kid, and even as a young adult, I found it kinda compelling. These days, I'm happily married, and, well, I view it differently.
Putting some other obvious issues aside...sometimes I think people throw their hearts into a love match because deep down, they know it can't last. They want the endorphin rush without the terror of true, life-altering commitment. Their heartbreak is real, but on some level, it's planned. Looking back, I feel like that was me when I got into a few long-distance relationships...I got into one of them right before I moved to another country, which was as close to an interdimensional pairing as I could manage.
Consider that Rod already had an on-again-off-again love interest in the Zoo Crew, and this starts to paint a picture.
I mean, it's not like Captain Carrot was the super-team leader who was worst at managing his love life in 1983--
--but still.
Next issue: Directed by Steven Spielberg. (I'm going to slow these posts up a little--I need to, just to get my other stuff done--but it'll be here by the end of the week.)
Last time out, the Zoo Crewers had met their match--their other-dimensional counterpart, the Just'a Lotta Animals. The heroes had been herded to the Zoo Crew's Earth-C, leaving a villain alliance free to take charge of the Just'a Lotta Animals' world, Earth-C-Minus.
(Incidentally, newer heroes like Green Sparrow, Elong-gator, and Firestork are on a separate mission in deep space, which explains why the JLA is currently Just'a Six'a Animals. Sorry, I had to cut something.)
The figures along the bottom of the cover are more deep cuts from DC Comics' funny-animal publishing history. One, Bo Bunny, would pop up in a Captain Carrot story before all was said and done.
The Zoo Crew embark on an interdimensional road trip to find Earth-C-Minus, but they end up making a few detours.
Again the group splits into four teams of three, with a little representation of both teams in each subteam, to fight four villains in four different settings.
Once the action kicks in, the art shifts over from Scott Shaw! to Rick Hoberg, and the scripting from Shaw! to E. Nelson Bridwell. The latter difference is barely noticeable, even to a fan: all the main Captain Carrot writers seemed to be on the same page about action and humor. (Maybe not romance, though.) The art change is more of a shift, but Hoberg's style is lots of fun to look at!
The group reunites to mop up the cabal's leaders:
Hoot's death-ray includes some Chiptonite radiation to take out Super-Squirrel, and he promises to turn Pig-Iron to slag, but...
(Gotta love Pig-Iron in moments like this. He's just so happy to be himself.)
Which means there's nothing left to do but for the teams to take their respective Earths' villains and go home...and for the Captain and Wonder Wabbit to end their summer fling.
True confessions time: this ending wrecked me when I read it as a kid, and even as a young adult, I found it kinda compelling. These days, I'm happily married, and, well, I view it differently.
Putting some other obvious issues aside...sometimes I think people throw their hearts into a love match because deep down, they know it can't last. They want the endorphin rush without the terror of true, life-altering commitment. Their heartbreak is real, but on some level, it's planned. Looking back, I feel like that was me when I got into a few long-distance relationships...I got into one of them right before I moved to another country, which was as close to an interdimensional pairing as I could manage.
Consider that Rod already had an on-again-off-again love interest in the Zoo Crew, and this starts to paint a picture.
I mean, it's not like Captain Carrot was the super-team leader who was worst at managing his love life in 1983--
--but still.
Next issue: Directed by Steven Spielberg. (I'm going to slow these posts up a little--I need to, just to get my other stuff done--but it'll be here by the end of the week.)
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Date: 2024-07-10 05:30 pm (UTC)(Aquaduck's pouting in that panel. No sympathy from the formerly married mallard.
"Cripes, you surface mammals and your drama.")