FLAMING CARROT COMICS #25-27
APR 1991
By Bob Burden , Roxanne Starr, Joe Pruett, Dave Newton, Rod Whigham, Pat St. Amour, Marsha Jensen, and Todd McFarlane
Flaming Carrot and the Mystery Men visit New York to (presumably) fight a group of villains. But when Raphael becomes amnesiac, Flaming Carrot recruits him for the Mystery Men as "the dark avenger!"... or bread boy.
It's been a while since I read Flaming Carrot. I had these issues for at least a year now, and I was waiting for the right time to read them. I have to say that it wasn't as funny as I hoped.
I think there are two things dragging this story down. One is the Mystery Men, and the other one is the Turtles.
Ever since Bob introduced them, the Mystery Men have been changing the vibe of the book. It just doesn't feel like they should be in the same comic. It's not that they are not funny, but I don't know, I think the story is getting too all over the place.
I enjoy Flaming Carrot by himself (and he was funny with Raph too), but also bringing the Turtles in the mix brought some of their more "grounded" attitude, if such a thing can be said of the Turtles.
Of course, the Turtles were also goofy. But the joke density was very low.
The story introduced some "vague dudes" in the first issue, reappeared in the second one, and they were later forgotten. Well, there was an alternate ending to issue #27 that Bob published in #28.
This ending also doesn't know what to make of those dudes, but it is something!
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