The final issue of Game Boy is among us… and you wouldn’t know it by reading the issue because it reads just like every other story in this series. That asshole Herman shows up somewhere, lets Tatanga and his cronies loose some place, and they cause some havoc… although this time around, Tatanga is lenient enough to throw Princess Daisy a birthday party.
Oh yes, they included Princess Daisy in here… who, at this time, was just a mild palette swap of Princess Peach. (To be fair, Daisy showed up for one game and was completely forgotten about afterwards until, what, Mario Tennis on N64 or something like that?) She’s been a character in these things and she’s always in the clutches of that dastardly alien. Again, appreciate these moments of Tatanga being treated as a major threat before we forget about him in short order.
There is some high stakes here, because Mario has to do some plumbing in a nuclear power plant and that exposes him to radiation, which can kill him. And video game characters who die in the real world… die for real. Which means Nintendo will have to hedge their bets on Luigi going forward if the world’s most famous plumber doesn’t make it back to the world of Game Boy. And then someone stole this idea and turned it into Wreck-It-Ralph. Go figure.
The final issue of Game Boy ends with neither a bang nor a whimper. It just ends and whatever happens next is best left to the imagination. Honestly, it’s probably for the best. I will say one thing; the comics themselves might not have been great, but I’d be lying if I said that they were boring. I actually got a bit of a kick reading these thing and I maintain that of all the Nintendo Comics System series that Valiant put out, Game Boy was the most interesting in terms of concept. I only wish that they went a little further with the idea and expanded into other Game Boy titles being put into play here. Mario was in a bunch of them. Not so sure why you couldn’t pull this off.
Maybe someone can… perhaps they should. In fact, you know what, Nintendo? Do it. Get someone to revive the Game Boy comic and continue where this left off. It’ll be the best thing to happen since the Wii.
One thing’s for sure… Wii U is NEVER getting its own comic book.
Never gonna happen.
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