Neal Adams Presents: Bucky O'Hare And the Toad Menace

by Larry Hama (writer), Michael Golden (artist)

*Bucky has been a cult hero since the 1980s, when his TV show debuted

*Return of a fan favorite!

Bucky O'Hare and the valiant crew of the good ship Righteous Indignation must battle the Toad Menace to save O'Hare's home-world, Warren (get it?). The entire planet has been turned into a swamp, and the peace-loving rabbit inhabitants have been enslaved. To save his home and his people, Bucky must marshal his forces and create the greatest weapon the Aniverse has ever imagined...the Harecraft Carrier! Bucky has been a huge fan favorite since the run of his cult TV show in the 1980s, and this funny, cool graphic novel will have fans of anthropomorphic superheroes everywhere hopping down the bunny trail to the comic-book store.

Larry Hama wrote G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero for Marvel Comics, he has also written for the comic-book series Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare for comic books, video games, toys, and cartoons. Hama is based in New York City.

Michael Golden, a comics artist, worked on the Micronauts for Marvel. His credits include Bucky O'Hare, Dr. Strange, The 'Nam, The Avengers, Wolverine, Batman, G.I. Joe, and Howard the Duck. Golden served as art director at Marvel Comics after John Romita. He lives in Connecticut.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Animals, Childrens, Science Fiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2007

About the author

Larry Hama is an American writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.

During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.

He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.

Reviews

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this show as a kid, even had all the toys too obviously lol
Reread this to my youngest, had read it once before when I first got it many years before he was even a glint in my eye and he seemed to enjoy. Heck I even tried to emulate the characters as best I could to give it some oomph 😂

I can understand why kids may have struggle with it and it's cartoon adaption, it did deal with some heavy stuff but that's the beauty of it, compressing it into an easier to chew and enjoy format even kids can get.

Whether I keep the book or sell it like others I have though is still something I haven't decided yet...let's see what happens.

[Jeremy Maddux · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some things you revisit from childhood and realize how mediocre they were, but you still love them anyway due to time, place and how much better things really were then. This is one of those examples.

[Britt Wisenbaker · Rating 2 out of 5]

For anyone that first saw this material printed in a larger, non-digest size, and in color, this small black and white reprint is disappointing because of how it marginalized Michael Golden's amazing artwork. This off-kilter spoof of science fiction and comic book conventions in funny animal form was the stand out property from Neal Adams' Continuity Studios in the mid to late eighties (it was their only property not being torturously redrawn to look like it was drawn by Adams himself). A largely unseen, desultory cartoon series resulted. This book, repackaged (badly) to appeal to tween manga fans, represents the entire comic output of the series. Unfortunately, Golden only draws the first two thirds of the book, with lesser hands drawing (or tracing) the final chapters tying up many of the storylines (and leaving others completely unaddressed). Hama and Golden's work deserves better than this ham-handed treatment.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

I get it now, the kid is suppose to be us imaging the world he lives in; inventive in nature, and that we can't lose that imagination when it's nested in mirror-tunnel-like media mayhem. The closet is better used for outer-space portals than hidden orientations.

[Marsha Altman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tries to combine the graphic novel and the second episode of the TV series, which can't really be done because they have conflicting events. Still has fantastic art that reminds me why I got so into Bucky O'Hare.

[Brent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great beginning to a series that never came to fruition. Larry Hama is one of my favorite storytellers and I would have loved to see where he could have taken this.


Putting this detailed and fantastic artwork in a special "manga" sized digest was a travesty.

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great art.
Crap story.

I think I waited for this one for a long time too.

[Tym · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good but not great