ThunderCats/ The Powerpuff Girls #4 // Review
Chilla finally has what she wants for herLion-O is her slave. She has a great deal with power. It’s been a long journey for her..and since she IS a supervillain, she doesn’t mind going on aout it at great detail. She has the world essentially at her feet. However, people rarely find themselves in such a situation for very long as she is about to find out in. ThunderCats/ The Powerpuff Girls #4. Writer Paulina Ganucheau and artist Engle Coleman conclude the strangely enjoyable crossover with colorist Kendall Goode. The two groups of heroes work together to bring things to a suitably weird resolution.
Chila is recounting her origin. Or at least the origin of her power. And she's kind of in the middle of talking about everything when a group of small.kawaii girl superheroes show up. They don't understand half of what she's talking about. But it doesn't matter. They're there to stop her from doing what it is that she wants to do. Because she's a super villain. And they're superheroes. And then that's their job. However, they're going to have to bring an energy quite unlike the type that they usually bring if they're going to defeat Chilla.
Ganuchaeu has a very thoughtfully put-together the team up. The two distinctive worlds of the two different franchises are very distinctly different. The rubbery cartoon amplification of.the Powerpuff Girls mixes with the animated ’80s space fantasy of the Thundercats. There is a sharp contrast between the two of them, but they mailed together in interesting ways. It would be far easier just to simply have both characters remain true to their original inspiration. Instead,Powerpuff Girls act a bit more like traditional 1980s animated heroes and theThunderCats get just a bit more kawaii. It's a fun juxtaposition.
Coleman and Goode lean the art in this issue, particularly close to the art style of the Powerpuff Girls. It's very cool to see it framed in a way that would not be inconsistent with the way. The action is framed and an old episodeThunderCats, but the heroes of the 1980s don’t look all that comfortable in more cartoonish incarnations. Maybe there's a way to tweak the yard to make it feel a little bit more integrated on their end of things. Maybe that would be a little bit more appealing than what makes it to the page here. However, even if the.ThunderCats aren't exactly looking very cool, the opportunity to see the Powerpuff Girls framed more as traditional action heroes is actually pretty cool.
Retro seems determined to devour itself. A 1980s cartoon franchise crosses over with an entirely different and totally unrelated 1990s franchise for something that feels potentially cross-generational but...it might NOT be. It might well be something else altogether. It’s fun to see this kind of commercial experimentation, but it feels like an exercise that doesn’t have a strong enough reason for existing. It’s fun to see the two ensembles work together. It just needs a bit more thematic energy in its heart.
