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I never read Badger, so I don’t really have any expectations for this. But the preview art was extremely underwhelming.

I hope they bring back the transsexual ex-Nazi nuns. That, and the boxing kangaroo. And Paul Bunyan.
Badger was a bit of fun, in those olden days…

My friend Kevin is is doing the art (with an assist on the 0 issue by another friend of mine) so I’m super jazzed bout this!

Badger is a wonderful comic and I’m so glad to see both new stories and reprints coming from IDW!

I think the fact that Mike Baron is involved means the chances are good it will live up to the quality we’ve seen in the recent returns of Grimjack, Nexus, and Jon Sable. Reading the interview with him, you can just sense he’s every bit as enthused about the project as he was Nexus. Maybe even more so because this is “his” baby and not his and Rude’s.

The artwork looks okay to me. The art was the one thing that I think kept Badger from being more well known and popular. It was always well written by Baron, but it never had the artistic identity to it that Steve Rude gave Nexus, Tim Truman gave Grimjack, or Mike Grell gave Sable (Not to mention Chaykin on American Flagg, Starlin on Dreadstar, etc.) There were some fine artists on the series to be sure, including Ron Lim, Tim Vigil, Jeffrey Butler, Spyder, the Pander Bros., Jill Thompson, Bill Reinhold, and Steven Butler among them, but nobody ever stuck around long enough to put their stamp on the character. So, the artwork is the least of my concerns as I’m used to the rotation.

Plus I’m excited to see a Munden’s Bar collection listed in the new Previews from IDW as well. That is just so awesome…(oh, I’m so nostalgiac for the glory days of First…).

Please God, don’t let him fight the Mushroom.