Crazy Comics Thoughts?

[Luke Paton]

Crazy Comics is on sale now with TOXIC - it'll be on sale for the next three weeks and voting has commenced on the website. Has any been out and bought a copy?? What are everyone's thoughts?

[Andy Davidson]

I think it's great!

[McScotty]

First time I have ever picked up a copy of "Toxic" (a mag that is sadly way outta my age band). However, I thought the Magazine itself had a nice fun feel to it so I can see why kids like Toxic so much. The comc supplement looked very slick , but for me, I wasn't that impressed (again it way out of my age band so my opinions aren't worth much) as didnt find it that funny - a lot of the stories had the feel that they had been done before, with silly endings (again maybe kids like that) thought it was in general very well drawn and I really liked the ideas of most of the characters the Robots, Werewolf, monster,Zombie err a "poo" etc lol - The characters themselves were, for me the strongest point inthe comic -My favourite was Werewilf (but liked Lew Stringers art best with art on Bovver Baby next) - I think kids will love it but as an ex reader of WHAM , POW, SMASH etc it was to tame for me.

[Malcolm Kirk (M.I.K.)]

Yep, I'm obviously not within the target age group either, but I shall share my views anyway.

I thought all the stories were perfectly okay but it did all seem rather familiar and a lot of the stuff reminded me of stories I used to read when I would have been the correct age for such things. Not neccessarily a bad thing of course, and the intended audience obviously won't get the same sense of deja vu.

WereWilf set the plot up perfectly, but I thought a couple of stories could have done this a bit better. I was left wondering why exactly there were zombies hanging about outside that boy's window wanting to play football, (and it just occurred to me that we aren't even told that kid's name), and I would have liked more backstory about why those Bad Robots were escaping.

I was also left wondering how much scope some of the strips had for future episodes. Spooks in Space in particular might sound like a cool idea but there's not really much for ghosts to do up there. I can't help thinking it would run out of ideas rather quickly if it featured regularly.

The same could probably be said about Count Von Poo. There's only so much you can do with poop. Although, having said that, it was by far my favourite story.

What that says about me, I don't know...

[Malcolm Kirk (M.I.K.)]

...and I should probably add, all in all the supplement has a very strong line-up, with a good mix of stories and art styles and it seems a shame that only one of the stories is likely to make it into the main magazine.

If it was up to me I'd want the zombies and the robots and the odd purple thing and the werewolf and the vampire that draws faces on his poo and everything else in the magazine and to heck with picking just one.

So there.

[John Freeman]

I thought it was interesting that the supplement had loads of strip but this issue of TOXIC didn't have any apart from the sponsored ones. For anyone picking TOXIC up for the first time thinking it was a comic, they might get the wrong impression. But it was a strong issue generally and a major promo. Hope it paid off in sales terms.

[John Freeman]

Von Poo was certainly my favourite and I wrote two of the strips (by the way, why weren't there credits for ALL the creators in the supplement?). But like Malcolm I think there's only so much you can do with poo - as South Park discovered...