The Badger from "First Comics"

[Lightning Strike]

I remember buying this book back when I was 14 and it was my first exposure to Ron Lim's artwork and I was amazed at how slick his work was. The character sort of reminded me of Wolverine when he went into his berzerker rage, but it was a good book. Did anybody else here read this book?

[Texcap]

Did anybody else here read this book?

I did, though I discovered The Badger in the back-issue bins a couple of years after the fact & only sporadically at that so I only had a handful of issues to constitute any kind of "collection." It was the Mike Zeck covers, the cool looking costume & the weapons that first caught my eye, but like yourself, I was very impressed with Ron Lim's art on the interiors and the character was a hoot.

I'd later find out that Mike Baron, the creator of another favorite character -- Nexus -- was the Badger's creator. So that only sweetened the deal.

Incidentally, this series constitutes yet another set of books that I need to re-obtain. Ah, and I hear there is more Badger on the horizon, to boot...

[Lightning Strike]

Did anybody else here read this book?

I did, though I discovered The Badger in the back-issue bins a couple of years after the fact & only sporadically at that so I only had a handful of issues to constitute any kind of "collection." It was the Mike Zeck covers, the cool looking costume & the weapons that first caught my eye, but like yourself, I was very impressed with Ron Lim's art on the interiors and the character was a hoot.

I'd later find out that Mike Baron, the creator of another favorite character -- Nexus -- was the Badger's creator. So that only sweetened the deal.

Incidentally, this series constitutes yet another set of books that I need to re-obtain. Ah, and I hear there is more Badger on the horizon, to boot...

I wasn't able to get them all either. I think I read the first 12 issues or so, and then my LCS went out of business and the corner stores wouldn't sell them, so I had to pick up the back issues later on.

[Texcap]

Just in case y'all might have missed this, as I did over the weekend:

Though he spoke about it at Newsarama previously, Ryall re-announced upcoming Badger projects, which will both reprint all of Baron’s original Badger stories, as well as produce a new, six part Badger story. “The comics are crazy to a degree that you just can’t fake,” Ryall said about Badger, noting that the book will probably be the closest thing to a superhero IDW has ever done, but anyone who’s read Badger knows that he’s pretty far from being a superhero.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=122899

Great news, I'm a huge fan of Mike Baron's writing, and I loved what exposure I had to the Badger as a character in the 90's, as I briefly mentioned above, and now it looks like I'll have the opportunity to purchase what I don't yet have in upcoming collections. Wa-hoo!

Anybody else excited about this? Planning to try the books for the first time?

[Draco]

Ah the Badger is so easy to sell to people.

It was and still is a classic.

Totally unique.

i need around 20 issues to have the lot.

Love it