Staff Pick (September11): Rascal Raccoon’s Raging Revenge HC

We’ve all grown up on these cartoons; a villainous bad guy who relentlessly hunts our favorite clever hero with elaborate schemes and plans that never seem to quite work out in the villain’s favor. The villain gets his comeuppance, the hero hops away with his latest victory, and all is right with the world. But what happens when the villain finally gets his way?

Rascal Raccoon is a typical cartoon villain with a typical obsession of killing everyone’s favorite cartoon hero, Jumpin’ Jackalope. Every day our hero manages to avoid every death trap Rascal Raccoon has devised, but when Rascal finally kills his nemesis by accident, what does he do with his life from then on? Loved by his fellow villains and despised by everyone who ever loved Jumpin’ Jackalope, Rascal Raccoon is bored and without direction in his life. Rascal devises a new obsession and, with the unlikely help of Jackalope’s girlfriend, they decide it’s time to destroy the real-life person who created them!

A fun homage to the cartoons of our childhood, Rascal Raccoon’s Raging Revenge is a Warner Brothers cartoon dipped in a little bit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, all wrapped up in a handsome hardcover shell in full-color glory.

~Jay Spence
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