I got my hands on the first issue of the new Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers comic and I wanted to share my thoughts with you all (mainly the Disney fans who are curious if this series is worth your time and money). Short answer: it totally is!
This issue does a great job of appealing to both fans who know the characters inside and out and newbies who may not have watched the series for a while (or at all). We get a lot of back story for Monterey Jack and we finally find out how he met Geegaw Hackwrench (Gadget's father). We also get a short and cute scene of Zipper attending a family reunion and...slightly exaggerating his Ranger exploits.
( Some spoilers under the cut... )The art is just as fabulous in the full issue
as it was in the preview a few weeks back. Boom Comics definitely didn't pull a bait-and-switch by tempting us with gorgeous covers only to give us so-so art inside the book. Even if the story was sub-par, the artwork alone would make the comic worth a purchase! Every page is well drawn and so full of tiny gags and fun details that you have to read the comic more than once to catch them all. Leonel Castellani is fast becoming one of my favorite artists (right up there with Terry Moore and Don Rosa!!).
In short, I highly recommend checking out issue one of
Rescue Rangers even if you're not a huge fan of the old cartoon or you don't have warm, fuzzy memories of watching it as a child. And if you are a fan of
Rescue Rangers (or the Disney Afternoon-style adventure series in general), you
HAVE to buy this comic.
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