The book that made it to the top of my pile isn’t necessarily one I would normally pick up. I would have picked Civil War II #0, since that’s going to be the big bad Marvel summer storyline. But instead I read Future Quest #1. I did this because I’m giving it to a colleague here at work (she’s a big Hanna Barbera fan).
Future Quest is a new comic where DC plays around with old Hanna Barbera properties. In this book, Johnny Quest and his crew meet up with Space Ghost, Birdman, The Herculoids, and other cartoon classic adventure characters from back in the day. This first issue, written by Jeff Parker, is setting everything up. Something is breaking through to Earth and Dr. Quest is determined to find out what’s happening before his nemesis Dr. Zinn does. And of course, it’s all the super, outer space type characters that are popping into Johnny’s world. So far, it has potential. But like many stories that has tons of characters, we’ll see how Parker is able to enhance the story without getting too bogged down.
The artwork is done by Evan “Doc” Shaner and Steve “The Dude” Rude and keeps with the style of the old cartoons. I actually think Steve Rude has been practicing drawing Space Ghost for almost his entire life. But they make use of all the great designs from the cartoons, as well as a sad timely shoutout to Darwyn Cooke, who I guess helped with some of the designs.
So I’ll check back and see if my colleague wants me to continue picking up these books for her. If so, I’ll more than likely give them a read before handing them over. Otherwise, I don’t know if I would add this to my regular comic purchases.
Other books this wee:
Civil War II #0
Snow Fall #4
Wonder Woman #52
All-New Wolverine #8
Old Man Logan #6
