Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer #1 (of 4); written by Arie Kaplan and art by Robby Musso
"Here he comes. Here comes, Speed Racer"
What kind of super clean and non-suggestive lyric is that? They're the words from the opening of the classic Speed Racer cartoon is what.
Too pip ol' chaps and young 'uns, there's a new Speed Racer movie coming up from The Wachowskis later in the whenever the chalk dust falls. So what better way to build the chassis (wow, what meekness) than by having other new adventures with a touch of the old spice.
"Mach Go Go Go!" Speed Racer and all of the characters you know and love -- from Trixie to Chim-Chim and beyond -- is back in all-new adventures!
Kicking off a new era of Speed, writer Arie Kaplan (Mad Magazine) and artist Robby Musso (The Transformers) expand the mythos in exciting, new (and old) ways in a story that spans generations of Racers!
Artist Alex Garner (Dominatrix) provides a special painted cover, and fellow Transformers artist extraordinaire E.J. Su offers a variant.
Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer from IDW Publishing
Other comics to eyeball this week
Calendars don't matter in the world of comics. Not with late comics on schedules. And what better showing of this than
Halloween Nightdance. Right there in the title, like the Treehouse of Horror only more gore. Stefan Hutchinson and Tim Seeley slashing the Valentine's night away. See, doesn't even match.
Mike Mignola and Jason Shawn Alexander give feet to the Abe not that fond of wearing stovepipe hats in
Abe Sapien: The Drowning. Sounds like the experience of being on a first mission. Or having the interviewer actually turn up on time to the interview. The nerve.
Alan Davis brings it all back to you (guess the lyric hint) with
ClanDestine at the House of Ideas. And what brings out the freak balls and odd ones? A secret. No closet or bones, just plain and simple secret. And them's the bigguns. Awwwww, freak out!
As scientific research into the best way to fry whale blubber continues apace by Japan and Norway, The Whale gets a do over in
Marvel Illustrated: Moby Dick. Roy Thomas and Pascal Alixe commandeering the Pequod of Herman Melville's master tome.
With a title like
Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness it's hard to not think of many other fantasy related titles which sound out and on and on. Robin Gillespie, Kinley Macgregor and Tommy Ohtsuka twist an ankle on the old Arthurian times. Why not call them Galahadian?
Spot the cross reference to another pre-90s thing coming back in the opener?
