16th August 2016, 1:14 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/16/1250522...ess-comics
A couple years back, the Nintendo Power Link to the Past comic got a rerelease, and I thought that was a good comic. In terms of quality though, I personally think Super Mario Adventures was the best thing Nintendo Power put together. I have the collected release, dog earned and worn, and I must say it's one of the best things I've ever read, and the best characterization of the Mario cast outside of Super Mario RPG. I like "sweet with a short fuse" Peach way more than "eternal sunshine and light" Peach as she's portrayed in the current stuff. She's just a lot more fun, and frankly she does more in this comic than the brothers do. It's also got solid comedy throughout. This comic still makes me laugh.
I expect this reprint will likely include the one "Mario Adventure" short that didn't make it to the original collected edition, the one with Mario and Wario fighting over who buys a Samus doll for Peach. Maybe it'll include more, but I can't overstate how much I recommend this thing. My all-time favorite comic (note that I'm not an avid comic reader, so I've got like maybe half a dozen I bought mainly due to very insistent recommendations) is All-Star Superman, but this comes in very close. That's right. My favorite comic is a Superman comic that embraces everything silly about Superman (like dino-people in the center of the Earth), does it straight, and somehow makes it work. My second favorite is a promotional tie-in comic printed in a magazine made to sell me toys. Watchmen's pretty good, but I guess I just like happier more positive stuff than the grim darkness so many stuff goes for these days.
A couple years back, the Nintendo Power Link to the Past comic got a rerelease, and I thought that was a good comic. In terms of quality though, I personally think Super Mario Adventures was the best thing Nintendo Power put together. I have the collected release, dog earned and worn, and I must say it's one of the best things I've ever read, and the best characterization of the Mario cast outside of Super Mario RPG. I like "sweet with a short fuse" Peach way more than "eternal sunshine and light" Peach as she's portrayed in the current stuff. She's just a lot more fun, and frankly she does more in this comic than the brothers do. It's also got solid comedy throughout. This comic still makes me laugh.
I expect this reprint will likely include the one "Mario Adventure" short that didn't make it to the original collected edition, the one with Mario and Wario fighting over who buys a Samus doll for Peach. Maybe it'll include more, but I can't overstate how much I recommend this thing. My all-time favorite comic (note that I'm not an avid comic reader, so I've got like maybe half a dozen I bought mainly due to very insistent recommendations) is All-Star Superman, but this comes in very close. That's right. My favorite comic is a Superman comic that embraces everything silly about Superman (like dino-people in the center of the Earth), does it straight, and somehow makes it work. My second favorite is a promotional tie-in comic printed in a magazine made to sell me toys. Watchmen's pretty good, but I guess I just like happier more positive stuff than the grim darkness so many stuff goes for these days.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)