Wacky Raceland
Appearance
Wacky Raceland | |
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Date | 2016 |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Creative team | |
Writer | Ken Pontac |
Artist | Leonardo Manco |
Original publication | |
Published in | Wacky Raceland |
Issues | 6 (as of December 2016) |
Date of publication | May 2016 – December 2016 |
Wacky Raceland reimagines the cast of Wacky Races as competing in a desert wasteland, reminiscent of the Mad Max film series. It is also one of four comic books introduced by DC Comics in 2016, the others being Scooby Apocalypse, Future Quest and The Flintstones.[1]
Characters
- Dick Dastarly and Muttley - Drivers of the Mean Machine
- Penelope Pitstop - Driver of the Compact Pussycat
- Peter Perfect - Driver of the Turbo Terrific
- Professor Pat Pending - Driver of the Convert-a-Car
- The Ant Hill Mob - Drivers of the Bulletproof Bomb
- Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear - Drivers of the Arkansas Chugabug, Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear are a duo of hunters who lived up north. Having been friends ever since they were kids, they have always looked out for one another. Luke is an alchoolic who drinks in order to forget the horrors he sees (he carries around a map with the locations of all the bars in the Wasteland), while Blubber is half-human, half-bear as a result of the Announcer's surgery to piece him back together, after a Grizzly bear attacked the two friends, nearly killing him.
- Red Baron - Driver of the Crimson Hailbailer, Red is a narcisist, homophobic sociopath, with Nazi tendecies, always referring to his motherland and how Adolf Hitler was right about erradicating certain kinds of people off the face of the planet, while stating that he himself is the living proof of Germany's master race. Before he joined the race, Red was a professional gambler, having ripped some of the most powerful men and women in Las Vegas.
- Rufus Rufcut and Sawtooth - Drivers of the Buzzwagon
- Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly - Drivers of the Army Surplus Special
- The Gruesome Twosome - Drivers of the Creepy Coupe
- The Slag Brothers - Drivers of the Bouldermobile
- The Announcer - The mysterious host of the Wacky Race.
References
- ^ Beedle, Tim. "Hanna-Barbera Beyond: Flintstones, Scooby and More Are Getting Comic Book Reimaginings". dccomics.com.