CAPTAIN ACTION CAT: THE TIMESTREAM CATastrophe! #2 (of 4)
Art Baltazar, Franco, Chris “Zod” Smits (w)
Art Baltazar (a/c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
The journey through the TIMESTREAM continues as Captain Action Cat, Khem, Golden Age Action Cat, and Dr. Evil Cat spin wildly out of control! Their discombobulated trip takes them to unsuspected lands, unfamiliar places, and the dimension of the fantastic phantom apparition known as The Ghost! Who is she? What’s her deal? Is she a Cat person? We sure hope so! Who is trying to possess the ultimate evil anyway? Just when our heroes make sense of things they come face to face with the mysterious man known as “X”! All this and a sample of jungle fury from the cheetah called the Savage Beauty! Be careful not to crush on her…or she will crush you! From the Eisner award winning cartoonists Art Baltazar and Franco! The awesomeness lies within these pages! Highly recommended by Franco’s mom. She says you should buy two. :-D
The Bonfire Agency,
a geek/nerd-demographic targeted advertising agency headed by former DC SVP of Sales and Marketing
Steve Rotterdam and veteran marketer/Captain Action master
Ed Catto. Together they bring many smarts and skill sets to an industry that still needs business people who can think outside the box. While the agency already has a few clients on board, their jobs are not just putting together modern marketing campaigns for brands that want to reach the nerd dollar. They are already looking at putting together an ad network, a "fan pan" consumer testing group and consulting with industry mainstays like Free Comic Book Day and the CBLDF.
In a time of great change for the industry we wanted to see where Catto and Rotterdam see things going and how they hope to approach their business. First, an interview with Catto who has made his mark on the comics scene with his retro yet fresh relaunch of the Captain Action brand of toys and comics. Catto discusses how he put that deal together and where he sees Bonfire going in the following interview.]
THE BEAT: I would have to suspect that you were a lifelong fan of Captain Action before you found the license and brought it back to life. Would that be correct?
ED CATTO: Yes, but more than that, I’m a passionate comic/toy fan and collector. In fact, I first tried to understand the world through the lens of 60’s superheroes: the Batman TV Show, comics, and Captain Action
. My parents always encouraged reading in all forms, so a weekly trip to the newsstand (after Sunday pasta dinner) always meant another comic. It didn’t hurt that my parents loved and traded comics as kids too. My mom loved Wonder Woman and my dad liked Crimebuster and the Phantom. But the original Captain Action toy, with the associated properties, was also the launchpad from which I’d been introduced to so many other comics – Milt Caniff’s
Steve Canyon, Alex Raymond’s
Flash Gordon, Kirby/Ayers/Severin’s
Sgt. Fury,
Aw, Yeah! What a great preview. The whole comic is a lot of fun too!