Comics Review: Bravest Warriors #17

How will an issue focused solely on Impossibear fare? This article is the answer. Read about it after the jump!

Spoilers!

This, here, is the story of Impossibear, and his jilted love. His stone cold demeanor makes him oblivious to how others feel. What catches the brunt of this is Space Chicken, who is by Impossibear’s side all the time. The bear finds a tree in the robot, and it looks rather meager. He puts a peanut butter sandwich under a root, and walks away. He comes back later to Catbug polinating it, and Impossibear shoos him off. After he picks off all of the beans from the tree,  Impossibear loses it when Space Chicken goes to draw with Catbug. That feeling of neglect drives him to leave the Robot. On his wayward travels, he passes 3 different beggars, each looking for a bean or two. They each offer something. The first offers a candy slide whistle, the second offers a glob of peanut butter, but it’s the final one that matters. As Impossibear meets the last one, he writes him off, because he doesn’t want to trade any more beans for anything. But this beggar showed the one thing Impossibear wants, and that’s a pair of butter skates. The beggar wanted half of a bean, but Bear gave him the whole sack,and he rushes home, with a new grasp on love.

He rushes back to find “Catbug Presents: Purple Gravity: The Butter Skate Experience. Catbug tells him about it, revealing that it was Space Chicken behind the show. Impossibear rushes the show, to see Chicken doing his show. He storms out, just to cry on a swing. Catbug comes back out and tells him how Space Chicken knew how much he loved butter skating, and he put this on just for him. Catbug shows him the drawing that made him leave, and it was Impossibear and Space Chicken drawn by Space Chicken. They make up, and Space Chicken includes him on the show, renaming it, “Purple Gravity and Mother pearl Extreme Butter Skating Family.”

If I can sum up this issue in one word, it would be: BORING. I have no vested interest in this character, and this issue did absolutely nothing to make me want to have some. This might have worked if he was in more than one other issue, or two episodes. I found Space Chicken more enjoyable, and he had very little face time in the comic. The only thing I can really say is that this was as much walking, to scale, as the Lord of the Rings movies. I think the only thing left to say is that I hope it’s another 17 issues before we get another issue starring Impossibear.