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...).