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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.
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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.
Last edited by Raijin; 05-13-2019 at 09:09 PM.
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God, I would love to have a new Zoo Crew book to read!
I absolutely loved the book when it first came out.
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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.
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If DC was smart they'd bring it back and team up scholastic to get this in the hands of kids.
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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.
The Zoo Crew would be perfect for a animated series.