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Title: "MangaManiacs"
Writer: Dave King
Penciller: Leonardo Batic
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: Bob Pinaha
Colorist: Tommy Berg
Release Date: March ??, 1996
Cover Price:
$1.75 U.S./ $2.50 Canada Summary:
A Japanese version of the "Newsreel of the
Stars" bit.
Description:
The Warners are created in 1930, in a Tokyo
version of the Warner Bros. Studios, but because they're too zany, are locked
up until current-day, when they escape.
Pages (out of 32): 3 pp.
Quote of the Story:
YAKKO, WAKKO, & DOT: Konichiwa Nurse!
Review:
A pretty good take-off on the TV version, but all in
all, it's little more than a semi-verbatim adaptation of the TV cartoon. Decent
opening to the issue, though.
Rating: 
Title: "The Three Samurai"
Writer: Dave King
Pencillers: Walter Carzon & Khato
Inker: Khato
Letterer: John Costanza
Cover: Walter Carzon & Khato
Painting: Tommy Berg
Summary:
The three find themselves in feudal Japan, fighting
a band of intrepid bandits.
Description:
As the trio searches for the world-famous
Bonsai tree, they're trampled by a group of bandits. They arrive in Itchinosi,
home of the tree, and save the community from the invaders using the usual
shtick (two places at once!). The raiders, however, return, but run off in
embarrassment when the Warners relieve them of their pants. Daigoro Kojima, the
group's leader, and his last few remaining men are crushed by the Bonsai tree,
which Dot tips on them. But the three are run out of town for ruining the
people's beloved tree.
Done entirely in B&W, and drawn in manga style.
Pages (out of 32): 10 pp.
Quote of the Story:
DAIGORO: [To Dot.]: I'll cut you down where you stand!
DOT: Well, you'd have a tough time cutting me down where I
wasn't standing!
Review:
An excellent spoof of manga. Carzon's Warners are
shaping up nicely, and the humans (presumably pencilled by Khato) are drawn in
superb manga style. Every detail is really wonderful, and the script itself is
good as well (tons of great lines and dialogues). All involved should be
proud—they finally managed to break the A! comic out of the monotonous rut it
had been in since it started. Costanza returns as a letterer, which is what he
does best.
Rating:
Title: Useless Facts: "This Month: Japan! (There's a Shocker!)"
(NOTE: No credits are listed for this comic.)
By: Neal Sternecky
Description:
This month's edition includes: breaking wind,
yokozumas, and manga vending machines!
Pages (out of 32): 1 p.
Review:
Pretty good. Normally I'd criticize them for the
gratuitous "breaking wind" bit, but it *IS* a rather interesting
fact, which I didn't know, so I'll let it go…
Rating: ˝
Title: "Gigantasaurus Versus the Dot"
Writer: Dave King
Penciller: Neal Sternecky
Inker: Scott McRae
Letterer: Bob Pinaha
Colorist: Jo Meugniot
Summary:
Dot fights a huge, Godzilla™-esque monster
rampaging through Tokyo.
Description:
Dot decides to go to a karaoke bar. However,
when a giant monster, Gigantasaurus, rampages through the city and ruins her
solo, she blows herself up to gigantic size and fights the thing, as Yakko
& Wakko head to the war room. She uses garlic breath, the ol'
"bull-running-into-an-anvil" bit, the
"your-shoelace-is-untied" gag, and finally introduces her pet—who
apparently knows Gigantasaurus. The three then karaoke through the streets of
Japan together.
Cameo by Pinky & the Brain (with gratuitous refs to
their "Tokyo Grows" TV ep and "Rewriting History" comic
story to boot!).
Pages (out of 32): 10 pp.
Quote of the Story:
[The Warners watch Gigantasaurus rampage across the city.]
WAKKO: He looks just like G-- [His siblings promptly cover
his mouth.]
YAKKO: Whoa, you can't say that!
DOT: That name is © and ™, you know.
WAKKO: Someone's trademarked Granny?
YAKKO: Those Looney Tunes lawyers at Warner Bros. trademark
everything.
DOT: Go figure.™
Review: A fairly enjoyable story. Some gags work, some fall
flat, but all in all, most of it is pretty good.
Rating: ˝
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