Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #11. (Halloween Theme)

 

The epic 2-part story of the Wuz-Wolf concludes with Peter Porkchops finding a way to become Iron Pig again. It’s a fairly creative way to end the story- but it just seems a little too…oh I don’t know, convenient. To have a piece of metal just happen to contain the very particles that causes you mutation show up in the hands of your arch-enemy. It’s just very neat and tidy. I was disappointed.

  I was not disappointed in the Rubber Duck back-up story. The villain he fights, the Salamandroid, is drawn in such an exceptional high quality. It may not be DC Earth Prime quality, but I could’ve seen this guy fighting the Thundercats. I was impressed.

A fairly good issue, it’s just not my favorite, by far. Here’s hoping the next issue goes back to those higher standards of quality than this one.

Worth Consuming

Rating 7 out of 10 stars.

Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #10. (Halloween theme)

In what is probably the first of my ghoulish reads for the 2013 Halloween season, I read another issue of Capt. Carrot. In this tale, Pig Iron is confronted with a character from his past- a diabolical wolf whose been curse into a Wuz-wolf- “part wolf and all man!” It’s a neat twist for a world made up of animals.

  The gang at DC have done it again making yet another connection to the funny animal books of the 1940s- as both the wolf and Pig Iron in his depowered form of Peter Porkchops were both featured in numerous DC issues right around the time of the second World War. It’s extremely clever and I believe the right direction for this title to go in. The secondary story featuring Fastback and his domestic troubles in finding employment were quite good. I just couldn’t believe some of the puns in that story were actually of X-rated films. I guess comics about funny animals just aren’t for kids after all!

Worth Consuming.
Rating 9 out of 10 stars.