A Raccon With A Ray Gun

Rocket Raccon #1 Cover

In the words of Ice Cube “Today was a good day”. My monthly delivery of comics turned up and this months batch is a good'un. There were many good reads with the murder mystery of Original Sin making more twists and turns and The Uncanny Avengers finally working as a team, but for this post I'm going to focus on a shiny new #1. Rocket Raccoon

Skottie Young writes and provides the art for this title and it's his art work that made this a definite add to my subscription list. His variant covers for other Marvel titles have always been top notch and full of humour and having never read any titles he has written it was nice to see his writing is just as funny. The cartoony art style young brings is a perfect fit for our anthropomorphic hero and all the panels just pop off the page.

The story starts with a quick flash back of a prison break before returning to the present to find Rocket taking a date to watch Groot in a intergalactic wrestling match. From there its non stop action and humour, with a phone call to Star Lord being a particular highlight. But then it ends all to quickly and leaves you wanting more. Which is good considering his big screen arrival this summer.

I've been following Rocket in his most recent outings with his fellow Guardians of the Galaxy in Bendis' latest run. That title has been good but Skottie Young's solo run with the furry member of the team already looks to be 10x better. Although its probably not fair to compare the two due to the complete difference in the tone the two books have, what with the serious feel of GotG and the zany action of RR.

If you have already guessed I liked this book. Really liked this book. I recommend people go out there and jump on this bandwagon as it looks to be going a long way and the journey will be enjoyable all the way.

Rating: Two Thumbs Fresh - Excellent.

P.S If he don't like being called a raccoon, why the hell is it his last name?!

P.P.S Below is a selection of my favourite Skottie Young art work