Another break from that Batman run to dip into the random unread comics. This is from FCBD 2008.
Title: NASCAR Heroes: Free Comic Book Day
Publisher: NASCAR Library Collection / Starbridge Media Group
Date: 2008
Writer: Jeremy Diamond
Artist: Peter Habjan, Rich Duhaney
Colorist: Peter Habjan, Rich Duhaney, Susan Menzies
Letterer: Thom Zahler
Editor: Jonas Diamond, John Gallagher
This was a random Free Comic Book Day pickup, and proved to not be at all what I was expecting. I was expecting a biographical book on NASCAR drivers. Instead, this is an all-ages superhero story set in NASCAR.
NASCAR driver Jimmy Dash is a former janitor who, along with his pit crew, gained superpowers from an explosion of a mysterious secret fuel formula. So now they do super-heroic deeds between races.
The origin of Jimmy Dash is the backup story in this book. The main story is a rather clearly Scooby Doo influenced tale of a movie set haunted by a headless ghost. After the third lead actor in a row quits the set of a racing film, Jimmy Dash is recruited to play the part, and he soon encounters the headless ghost.
There are some vehicular action scenes, but the ghost plotline fizzles out without any satisfying resolution, and we don't really get to see much of Jimmy or his teammates using their powers.
This story didn't seem to know how serious to take itself. The action was goofy enough that it wasn't very entertaining as a serious action story, but it also wasn't funny enough to be, well, funny.
I also felt like the story could have gotten better use out of its NASCAR connection. There was never any action that took place in an actual NASCAR race.
Rating: 4/10
Title: NASCAR Heroes: Free Comic Book DayPublisher: NASCAR Library Collection / Starbridge Media Group
Date: 2008
Writer: Jeremy Diamond
Artist: Peter Habjan, Rich Duhaney
Colorist: Peter Habjan, Rich Duhaney, Susan Menzies
Letterer: Thom Zahler
Editor: Jonas Diamond, John Gallagher
This was a random Free Comic Book Day pickup, and proved to not be at all what I was expecting. I was expecting a biographical book on NASCAR drivers. Instead, this is an all-ages superhero story set in NASCAR.
NASCAR driver Jimmy Dash is a former janitor who, along with his pit crew, gained superpowers from an explosion of a mysterious secret fuel formula. So now they do super-heroic deeds between races.
The origin of Jimmy Dash is the backup story in this book. The main story is a rather clearly Scooby Doo influenced tale of a movie set haunted by a headless ghost. After the third lead actor in a row quits the set of a racing film, Jimmy Dash is recruited to play the part, and he soon encounters the headless ghost.
There are some vehicular action scenes, but the ghost plotline fizzles out without any satisfying resolution, and we don't really get to see much of Jimmy or his teammates using their powers.
This story didn't seem to know how serious to take itself. The action was goofy enough that it wasn't very entertaining as a serious action story, but it also wasn't funny enough to be, well, funny.
I also felt like the story could have gotten better use out of its NASCAR connection. There was never any action that took place in an actual NASCAR race.
Rating: 4/10
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