Wacky Raceland

This was a pretty fun read. It's the end of the world; earth's crawling with mutants, cannibals and all sorts of regular @$$hats trying to survive. However, if you are chosen by "the Announcer," you have the chance to enter "utopia" by doing one thing: win enough races.I liked the updates made to a lot of the characters, like Making Penelope Pitstop a real badass and making private Meekly a transvestite.The book gets pretty dark sometimes, like what they did with Professor Pat Pending and can get disturbing. The artwork can get a little too muddy at times, but overall I liked it just fine.If you're an long time fan of Wacky Races and you want to see what would happen if it was like Death Race meets Mad Max, then this is the book for you!

At first you get a little overwhelmed, there is a ton of characters.It is Hannah Barbera's Mad Max, sure, but the presentation feels like LOST, with some characters' flashback interweaving the narrative.I hope it continues the format.There is some gruesome imagery, be warned.The characters are lovable jacksasses, they are competing with each other by now just for points, but one day they gonna have to kill each other.

I do not have much of an attachment to the Wacky Races. I watched some when I was a kid, but just didn't really like it compared to Space Ghost, Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, and other Hanna-Barbera cartoons I had seen. Don't know what it was, just didn't like it or hate it. It just was, and I was not. Fast forward all these years later, I'm looking for new graphic novels right here on Amazon and I see back in January that there's comic series published by DC re-imagining the likes of Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, the Wacky Races, and other Hanna-Barbera shows, and that sounds interesting to me, so I go looking for reviews and for The Flintstones, Scooby Apocalypse, and Future Quest, the reviews tend to be good. Reviews for Wacky Raceland, however, tended to be mixed from readers, but became more positive, particularly from critics, as the series went on, so I pre-ordered Scooby Apocalypse, Wacky Raceland, and The Flintstones, but had a financial situation and couldn't get Scooby Apocalypse, pre-order cancelled because I couldn't pay, but I got this book and will be getting The Flintstones when it ships out soon.That said, as I said, I didn't like the Wacky Races much when I was a kid, I blame the 80's and 90's cartoons I watched, but when I read that the comic reboot is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the cars are sentient and can talk and the drivers have been redesigned to look like they belong in Mad Max, that was interesting to me, and maybe it's because I love post-apocalyptia so much, I decided to get it, and I love it. The characters just look interesting to me now, particularly Dick Dastardly, who takes top billing on the book's cover, and they have personality, and the cars look just better and more fit for racing and now combat than they did on the show, but being sentient, they have their own personalities, and there's more to the races than just racing, and the world they're racing through is just nightmarishly beautiful, and I just love the adaptation so much better than the original. Yes, that was intentional.That said, there is a story to all of this, and it becomes readily apparent almost immediately. It's quite clear that the world has seen better days, and in interspersed flashbacks, we're shown, particularly in the cases of Dick Dastardly, Penelope Pitstop, Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear, and the Red Baron, not Red Max as he was on the original show, and to a lesser extent, the Ant Hill Mob, the Slag Brothers, Muttley, and Professor Pat Pending, that there was life, not always good, before, during, and just after the Apocalypse that turned the world into what it is now. As the series goes on, it's shown to not just be about the races, the racers having some semblance of a relationship with each other as the mysterious Announcer announces when and where races will start and encourages the races and even cheating, but explicitly forbids killing each other or letting each other die. No racers means no races, as we're told in one panel, and no races means no Utopia, the prize for winning the final race. A twist, which I won't divulge so nobody who hasn't read it yells at me about spoilers but I in truth did not see coming, something I always praise because I like not always knowing what's going to happen before it happens, derails the plans and shapes the tail end of the series. I will say, however, that this twist leads to a final two issues that I found very interesting.

Very cool read, interesting modernization of classic characters, wasnt sure what to expect but pleasantly suprised, hope they decide to run this again in the future.

I was interested in Scooby Doo Apocalypse and found this and some other Hanna Barbera updates along with it. This is a fantastic reimagining of the Wacky Racers for adults. I highly recommend it.

Cool art, and I really dig the approach to rejuvenating and gritty take on the series. But the writers (or the heavy hand of DC) inject a lot of SJW messaging. Also, there really isn't that much cool vehicular action in it, unlike what you'd expect going in.

I really adored the characters and how they're introduced, really love the inclusion of trans, mutants, animals, bots and females. This is really epic so far!

Back and forth kinda odd. Only sure of who few characters are. Great idea. Really neat muttley. Talking cars tho... still a lot of fun. Hope next issue is better and more clear

I loved this! It was brilliant seeing a dystopian, post-apocalyptic take on the familiar Wacky Races gang. I loved reading all their different backstories, from Dick Dastardly’s fall from family man to race car villain, to Blubber Bear’s transformation from human to bear-man hybrid, and liked the modern take on Penelope Pitstop, though I read all her lines in a Southern Belle accent in my head, and I doubt they were written to be read that way. All in all, excellent.

I really loved this Mad Max-ification of the Wacky Races - not dissimilar to Blood Drive for any Syfy fans.

Good twist on the original Wacky Races with all your favourites in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Shame there’s only one story/limited run unlike Scooby-Doo Apocalypse.

It was a bit of fun

I wanted to like this much more than I did. I grew up with the Wacky Racers and thought a post-apocalyptic race was a grand idea for this revamp of the cartoon. I did enjoy the book and had great fun with the characters; I really like how they all were updated and the time spent on giving backstories for the main characters. All the teams are accounted for in this volume but the main focus is on Penelope and Dastardly with a few others taking up secondary positions. I really liked that the cars were all sentient with A.I.! The problem I had was there was just too much jumping around, both from character to character and from pre- to post-apocalypse. It's a very complicated plot which gets somewhat lost in all the various goings-on. However, the ending focused on the plot having everyone join together in the present. Even though this book is not labelled volume 1 and it does have a solution to the main arc, the ending leaves us in the lurch with an obvious "more to come" conclusion. If there is a second volume I know I'll be there as I really like the characters in this. Oh, I also loved the Mad Max feel to the art!