Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! in The Oz-Wonderland War #1

 

It’s perhaps the weirdest cross-over of all! Captain Carrot and is squad of super-powered funny animals from earth-C are recruited by the Cheshire Cat to help Wonderland’s finest to save the leaders of the land of Oz. It appears there’s this guy called the “Nome King” and he’s the leader of a race of hairy bearded creatures called “Nomes.” Are the supposed to be gnomes? I don’t know, but these guys are mean. Along with his Nome soldiers, the Nome King wears a golden hat that gives him control of those scary flying monkeys.

 

With these baddies plus a bunch of other unusual creatures that have struck fear in the hearts of many a resident of Oz and Wonderland, it’s up to the Zoo Crew to save the leaders of OZ before the Nome King gains access to a portal connecting Oz to Wonderland. With each leader of Oz captured, the Nome King’s power is increased exponentially. So, with every Oz leader saved, the Nome King gets weaker.

 

There’s only one problem, the Nome King has changed these leaders into random inanimate colored objects in color coordinated places. So, if you got changed into a red fire hydrant, the Nome King would place you in a field of roses along with a red vase, some ruby red slippers, and a red rubber ball. The caveat is that you only get one guess or that person is the Nome King’s object forever. But, there is a little bit of the Batman villain the Riddler in the Nome King as each mission can be solved by a riddle that reflects the past history of Oz and Wonderland.

 

Since Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew have never heard of Wonderland or Oz, they’ll need help from the White Rabbit and Dorothy Gale to help solve the riddles. In this first chapter, the combined earth-C-Wonderland-Oz must save the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. Can they do it without letting their egos and unfamiliarity with the land of Oz get in their way?

 

A very interesting first chapter. It’s not at all what I expected. I thought the Zoo Crew would somehow be dragged in a war between the people of Wonderland and Oz, as the title implies. I thought some Zoo Crew members would have taken sides and it would’ve been like a true civil war. Instead, I like this idea of a team-up that involves solving a series of puzzles much better that my first thoughts. It captures the works of Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum quite well.

 

Worth Consuming.

 

Rating: 8 out of 10 star