Mighty mouse!

[matt levin]

I sometimes think all the rest o'you guys are too hip to be reading Popeye (which admittedly has priced itself out of my reading), Underdog (which, admittedly, was really not up to my expectations, given its creative staff, alas) or Mighty Mouse.

And y'know? You wouldn't be too wrong (except Popeye, which is brilliant (if sometimes really 'dated') fun, but over-priced (this really annoys me)). As for Mighty Mouse's first issue, this wasn’t objectionable, and it looks nice. It works a delicate line balancing its real-life setting and the cartoon world, and works it well, so far. But I long for even adaptations of the cartoons, little mice all singing their little operetta songs and all, if we can’t have new ‘cartoons’ of the same style and sensibilities. I enjoyed it enough to be looking for issue two. It's kind of like reading "Riverdale" and wondering what happened to "Archie and the Gang," but going along with it out of curiosity...and a bit of wariness for the future.

[Kuwagaton]

I'm turned off by the "real world" thing. I'm not sure I ever found it interesting, and it's a disappointment to not know this book would be like that going in. Fisch is a really clever writer, but I don't want to drag myself through waiting for it to click.

Off topic, but I actually didn't mind paying the $5 for Popeye, since it's Popeye, but I have to say that I don't find Sagendorf's Popeye amusing. I miss Langridge.