It could be worse. She could have Afro Samurai coming after her. And that’s all I know about that show.
Fraggle Rock #2
Star Comics (Marvel; June, 1985)
“#1”…wait, #1 was last issue? Oh, that’s the title.
WRITER: Stan Kay
ARTIST: Marie Severin
LETTERER: Rick Parker
EDITOR: Sid Jacobson
Red is so impressed with her latest splash dive (aided by slipping on Goober’s soap) that she’s convinced she’s #1, a conviction that goes straight to her head. She puts up a bunch of posters proclaiming her status but doesn’t see the other Fraggles are confused. She’s so convinced about her fame that she starts thinking the crowds are stalking her (they aren’t), which leads to her and Gobo being caught by Junior Gorg when she tries to find someplace for privacy. They manage to escape and finally Red is happy with not being famous.
What they got right: It’s a nice dodge that Gobo is convinced that, as usual, Traveling Matt’s latest postcard will have a solution to their problem, and it’s just a standard postcard rather than another tale of his adventures in our world.
What they got wrong: Red is obsessed with being the best, but not usually to this level of crazy. Doc’s idea of a “mile long extension cord” to bring his TV with him is a bit dumb and Doc’s never been shown to be that dumb. We haven’t seen much of Wembley in these two comics but when we do he’s also an extreme version of his usual indecisive self.
What I think overall: The biggest issue is that it feels like the writer had a surface level idea of what the characters on the shows were like and that’s what he wrote. The end result feels more like a bad parody of the Fraggles and Doc while Junior is just there to be a threat in the last part of the story. This is not the best showing for Fraggle Rock.
BW Media Spotlight 
[…] #1 (yes, that’s the title): After an epic dive, Red gets an inflated ego, assuming she’s now famous and has lots of fans, driving herself nuts. Doc comes up with a super-long extension cord but doesn’t want the fame attached, even though he picks up a hat that hides his face (because again the cartoon doesn’t have Doc’s face…maybe Marvel (their animation wing made the cartoon while Star was a Marvel imprint) couldn’t get the rights or knew that Doc was played by different actors in different countries? Anyway, this is another weak one. Maybe if Red actually did have fans instead of just assuming everyone was driving her nuts with hero-worship it would have been a more interesting story. […]
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