Saturday, January 06, 2007
Comic Art
You remember that very silly TV show CHiPS? Each week our nutty cast of California State Troopers solved a crime involving the "fad du jour" (How's that for redundancy!) Anyway, that's what ran through my mind as I considered this week's lame Spidey villian - the one, the only (thankfully) Rocket Racer!Rocket Racer, a guy with a super-powered skate board. You know, come to think of it, I am kind of surprized there was never a villian based on the Rubik's Cube, or the Pet Rock. But, I digress. Oh yeah, and then, as if the skate board fad was not enough of a "hook" - they went and made the guy black! Now in this day-and-age of the X-games, how many black skateboarders out there are there? Anybody, anybody...?
Really, he is a good guy that burst on the scene as a bad guy out of desparation, but just couldn't pull it off and ended up teaming with Spidey to fight the bigger bad guy that came along. Talk about lame!That the bad guy makes good story is about as old as comics, but here is the thing - for the story to have any appeal, any appeal at all, the bad guy has to be really bad, not just pretending to be bad because Mama needs groceries.
Rocket Racer - bad idea poorly executed.
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