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Comic Review: Cars #6

June 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Christina Myers
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Issue: Cars #6
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Writer: Alan J. Porter
Artist: Allen Gladfelter
Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer: Deron Bennett
Covers A & B: Allen Gladfelter (Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg)
Publisher: BOOM! Kids

To be honest, I wasn’t terribly impressed with Cars issue 6. In fact, I really didn’t enjoy it at all. I realize that it’s a continuation of an ongoing story, being number six and all, but the whole thing seemed very bland and boring. It was like tuning in for the dullest part of a movie, filler, when nothing important is happening.

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The cover shows semis being abducted by aliens, which I thought looked promising. The story starts there, with two semis discussing the plausibility of alien abduction only to then be abducted themselves. They wake in what looks like a cross between the honeycombs of a beehive and a giant concrete parking garage, and the little floating saucers tell Mack that they are going to take a look at his carburetor. He then wakes up screaming, parked at a truck stop. This was literally the most interesting part of the comic and it was two pages.

The rest of the comic is filled with way too much dull conversation as various teams of cars drive along. It feels like they’re just trying to fill space and take up time, time I wish I could have back. I was halfway through the comic before I found out they were supposed to be in a race!

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On the up side, it’s pretty. The colors are bright and it looks just like the movie. Mater is cute, as always, and is a source of a little bit of grin-worthy comedy, as is the hippy VW bus, but that’s about all I enjoyed. The overall storyline might have worked as a movie, but as a comic it just seems to drag on and on and all I wanted was for the cars to shut up or to get to the end. I’m rather disappointed because the movie was great, exciting with a lot of action. The comic just didn’t live up to the characters in their original format.

Rating: 1 / 5 Stars

BOOM! Studios, cars, comics-, Pixar, Reviews

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About the Author
Christina Myers is many things, but a mother first and above all. She has a seven year old girl and a newborn son whose name proves her geekthnicity. Dante Jay was named for two Clerks characters, and if that wasn’t enough, his lovey has been dubbed Randal. You can’t keep best buddies apart!

She was a nerd long before she was a geek, spending most of her childhood buried in books and studying her heart out. It wasn’t until she met her husband 12 years ago that the overgrown nerdiness died and the spark of geek in her grew, and her grades showed it! No fancy degrees here. Though she once intended to become an elementary school teacher, she later decided that she’d much rather teach her own children.

Being a stay at home, home schooling mom gives Christina time to fill. Her love of books was instilled early by her mother and she has her own library to prove it. Television is an addiction and must be on in the background at all times. Movies are a love shared with her husband and many late nights are spent picking apart crappy B movies. Whatever spare time is left is devoted to writing smutty altpair Inuyasha fanfiction and keeping her fans impatiently waiting for updates while she starts new projects instead of finishing the current ones! She’s even finally attempting to write an original fiction after years of encouragement from her readers.

Christina would be a hermit if she could, absolutely despising the heat and humidity of her home in Central Florida and dreaming of moving someplace where seasons actually change and snow exists. Until that dream comes true, she does most of her socializing through her laptop and her blackberry.

She only just got a Twitter account, but you’re welcome to follow her as she tweets random thoughts during late night feedings and diaper changes. http://twitter.com/SunsetMiko
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