is there any conceivable future for Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew?

[DrNewGod]

There is a future for Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew, but I don't think it's in the standard DC Comics publishing.

They can introduce the characters in print to a wider audience through their new DC Zoom imprint.

They can also license the characters for merchandise like toys, plushies, T-shirts, etc.

Also, they should develop an animated series or film. I think the Zoo Crew's world would look great on the big screen in 3D CGI.

But as part of DC's regular publishing initiatives? No. Zoo Crew was not a big hit even back when it was first introduced, and there's no reason to suspect that it will all of a sudden sell enough to devote resources to it.

DC has shown, with their linewide cutbacks, that they don't want to publish lots of low-selling niche titles anymore.

As I showed in the April Sales thread, the average DC title outsells the average Marvel title, and that's probably the way they want it.

I would think they might make a good product for children's online games.

[Sandy Hausler]

I would guess that Captain Carrot is one revamp away from being a going concern again. I think an animated crossover with the Loony Toons would be great.

That would be great, especially if you got Sholly Fisch (the writer of Scooby Doo Team Up) to write it.

[Jim Kelly]

DC once had a great line of funny animals. I'd say that from about 1945 to 1955 this was one of their primary lines of comics. Some of that was revived with the Zoo Crew, as Peter Porkchop is one of the original DC funny animals. I always saw the Zoo Crew as just a way for Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw to preserve the realm of DC funny animals, in the format that was most popular at the time, super-hero teams. But DC should really be thinking about maintaining much more than just their super-hero franchises, because you never know what genre is going to enjoy a resurgence next.

[Kyer]

I suspect some writer will get an idea to have one of them brutally killed and eaten by a human, sparking a war between the anthropomorphic animals and humans.
It'll be big and bloody and EXTREME!

I am heartily sick of Big & Bloody & EXTREME! stories. Give me stories I wouldn't mind sharing with an older child.

[Raijin]

I'd like to see it happen. But it just don't think it would sell. I feel like kids aren't really into comic books these days. Give the Zoo Crew to Mark Russell. That'll be interesting.

[married guy]

God, I would love to have a new Zoo Crew book to read!
I absolutely loved the book when it first came out.

[edpower]

Again...to paraphrase JMS regarding Superman:

I would crawl across a mile of broken glass and monkey vomit to write a Captain Carrot book.

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I do have to disagree with some of the posts here though. While a Zoo Crew book should be all ages, ala the Bongo Comics line or Bone, it shouldn't be specifically aimed at "only" children. IE, kid friendly, but not kids specific.

To me CCAHAZC worked best in the beginning of it's run, when all the book's arcs were spoofs of specific kinds of comic book stories/genres (When the book first started it was supposed to be Jack Kirby by the way of Loony Tunes [or vice versa]): Team Origin stories (first 2 issues), Horror comics (Mudd), Giant Monsters (Frogzilla), Space Invasions (Bunny from Beyond), Barbarian stories (Bow-Zar), Time travel (Time Keeper), Team crossover events (meeting the Just'a Lotta Animals), and Solo Hero originals (Little Cheese's introduction).

The issues that varied from that, once the original creative team left/couldn't keep up with the book as well as the fill in issues in between, were all weak and varied greatly in quality ...even while being weak.

I think today's comic writing of choosing an exciting event that you can promote in the book, then writing to it, over the character driven stories of when CC was out are actually perfect for the kinds of satire that The Zoo Crew used to do so well when they first started.

[kurenai24]

If DC was smart they'd bring it back and team up scholastic to get this in the hands of kids.

[Ardennes]

I'd love to see Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew return, but I think it's a hard sell. Kids can't even afford comic books today, and the only people who would buy this are the nostalgia-minded, or if they did a gritty, mature themed take on this.
I think DC's best option for re-introducing is in a cartoon format. They have several properties that are begging for the Saturday morning cartoon treatment. They could do this and then 'Mazing Man and I think it has potential. If the kids love it, they'll get mom and dad to buy it.

[Zero Hunter]

The Zoo Crew would be perfect for a animated series.