MUPPET SHOW #1 (OF 4)

Review by: akamuu


Size: pages
Price: 2.99

I really wished I liked the art on this book.  The script of this comic was perfect Muppetism.  The pacing, the puns, the plot line buried behind the behind-the-scenes frenetecism.  The writing was like your favorite Muppet Show episode.  Not one of the ones that was brought down by Mrs. Brady trying to prove she was a real actress, or the one with the dancer who you wouldn’t have recognized even if you were a cultured adult in 1979, and not a drooling toddler, like I was (I still drool a lot, but hardly ever toddle).  This was the cast of Star Wars episode.  Or, the one with the stand-up comedian whose name I’ve never learned, because I’ve only ever seen him on the Muppet Show Season One DVDs that I watch religiously (though, more Unitarian Universalist than Orthodox Jew).

I know the comic is aimed for children, so they feel they can skimp on art, but damn this was such a fun comic to read that I wanted the characters to look like the characters from the show, and not the weirdly alien-like cartoons that they are in this book.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 1 - Poor

Comments

  1. I saw the preview for this and yeah….some of the characters are a bit off model.

    This is the comic where the grown up in me and the kid in me are going to duke it out.

  2. akamuu akamuu says:

    My money is on adult you.  My adult me beat the crap out of my kid me when I got back into comics.  It’s ok, though.  It bought him ice cream afterward, in exchange for not telling my mommy me.

  3. ….I like ice cream…

  4. akamuu akamuu says:

    Wait…are we dating now?  I’m so confused.

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