Spaceships! Vermin with frickin' lasers! Melodrama! Amusing portrayals of the mentally ill! Clowns! Chimps with swords! Everything a growing boy needs!
The passing reference made me feel nostalgic, so I hopped over to Wikipedia to see what they had to say about the series. The entry offers slim pickings about both the character and the title, but what I was struck by was the Category Headings used to index the entry:
Categories: Furry comic books - Marvel Comics titles - Marvel Comics superheroes - Fictional raccoons - Animal superheroes
Fictional raccoons? The rest of the categories make perfect sense to me, but Fictional @#$%ing raccoons? Seems a bit esoteric to me.
This is why I simultaneously love, and fear, Wikipedia.
*If indeed, I was ever truly aware of it at the time. I mean, I was, like, 14 when the series came out. I didn't start paying serious attention to creator credits until I went through my annoying, insufferable, and pretentious collegiate "Sequential Art is a perfectly valid legitimate art form, and not merely adolescent power fantasy" phase.
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