# New Mighty Mouse Comic Book: ick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mighty-mouse-comic-book-ick/788734 "2017-06-11T23:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mighty-mouse-comic-book-ick/788734/1 "2017-06-11T23:35:15Z")
New Mighty Mouse comic book from Dynamite. Fun cover, fun splash page. MM socks it to a cat in a giant robot suit. Cool! Cut to the opening of the story, and it begins with realistic art of a school-kid suffering a nasty bullying incident. I tore the comic in half. School bullying is NOT entertaining, and Mighty Mouse (for gosh sake!) is supposed to be light and fun. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mighty-mouse-comic-book-ick/788734/2 "2017-06-11T23:54:13Z")
I poked around online and found 3 or 4 really positive reviews and one so-so review. Apparently the art style is part of the story-telling scheme:[ > [@](#): > > His raw, photorealistic, yet expressive style makes the reality of Joey’s life sink in. It flat out sucks. He can’t even draw superheroes on the playground without getting his butt kicked, and the principal/authority figure at his school isn’t much help either. In the parts when he’s at school and or walking down the city streets, Lima isolates Joey in the panel. > > However, when he’s writing his self-insert Mighty Mouse fan comics, Joey is front and center as he helps his rodent hero defeat the bullies and score a victory for the side ofgood. Igor Lima and Pete Pantazis seamlessly shift from lifeless, yet intense “real world” to the bright nostalgia of the Mighty Mouse cartoons that Joey watches home alone and finally an in-between world of rough pencil sketches and swiped poses as he writes himself into Mighty Mouse’s adventures. It’s a tour de force in cartooning and plays with reality while telling a straightforward narrative of a lonely kid and a heroic mouse. ]([Comic Book Review: Mighty Mouse #1 – Nerds on the Rocks](http://nerdsontherocks.com/comic-book-review-mighty-mouse-1/))Don’t know what to tell you about the story; comics have a long history of being morality plays. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mighty-mouse-comic-book-ick/788734/3 "2017-06-12T00:56:42Z")
For personal reasons, I really hate school bullying stories. But, doggone it, I wanted a Mighty Mouse story, not a “Joey” story. So, in my humble opinion, fuck them for publishing this trash. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mighty-mouse-comic-book-ick/788734/4 "2017-06-12T03:10:59Z")
It wasn’t great, but not terrible either. I’ll pick up #2 and see how that goes. In case you’re wondering, at the end of the comic Mighty Mouse pops out of the tv world and into Joey’s living room Sent from my SPH-L720T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mighty-mouse-comic-book-ick/788734/5 "2017-06-12T20:08:05Z")
Yeah, there is a trend to take old comics in a “different” direction. Have you heard about the upcoming reboot of [Snagglepuss](http://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-first-look-snagglepuss-comic/)?