WRITER EXCLUSIVE
Road Warriors
Hit the road as Wacky Races returns for a new comic series
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
Covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Robert Hack.
WHILE WACKY RACES dates back to 1968, Ivan Cohen is emulating some more recent futuristic Road Warriors as he and artist Mariano Benitez Chapo update Hanna-Barbera’s cartoon car competition in Giant-Size Wacky Races – a new one-shot for Dynamite Entertainment’s Warner Animation line.
“Part of what made this a challenge worth facing was thinking about how to make it a 21st century story and bringing something new to the mix,” Cohen tells Red Alert. “So there are new racers, new vehicles and a new context for what the races mean to the non-racers.