Random Comics Theatre
Bucky O'Hare is a funny animal science fiction series created by Larry Hama and Michael Golden for the Continuity anthology ECHO OF FUTUREPAST back in 1984-1985. It features the titular rabbit captain of a spaceship with a crew of various other mammals from another dimension teaming up with a precocious human boy against an army of evil toads. It was collected in 1986. In 1991 it was adapted to a TV cartoon, and got a toyline, so Continuity repackaged the comics to a 5-issue series.
It's all a bit of a mess, unfortunately. The story is expanded to over twice as many pages, and the reformatting isn't very well done, even without any of the originals on hand to compare. The size of the lettering and line-weight of the art will vary from panel to panel, some of the transitions are awkward. And if you're familiar with Continuity, you won't be surprised to hear that the colouring is overdone.
All a shame, since Golden's artwork, what you can make out of it, is really good, and there's some decent humour in Hama's writing. I'm not sure if there's ever been a decent modern reprint of it. Looks like there was a black and white digest reprint back in 2006, which might be the reformatted version based on the page count, and a colouring book a few years ago which seems to have the full story, possibly in the original format, and some new material.
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