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Nick Mag Presents The Best of Nickelodeon Magazine
Book Released: 1 Feb 2007
Posted 22 Mar 2007
Writer: Dan Abdo, Corey Barba, Justin Green, Brian Ralph, S Roberts, et al.
Artist: Ian Baker, Sam Henderson, Johnny Ryan, Robert Leighton, Gary Fields
Artist: Scott McCloud, Craig Thompson,
Michael Kupperman
Publisher: Nickelodeon
4.00 out of 5 Stars
Reviewed by J. W. DeBolt, Jr.
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This Nickelodeon magazine is an all-comics special,
magazine-sized, with a slick cover and colorful comics cover to
cover. Overall, the magazine is very well done. Appropriate for
six- to twelve-year-olds, the magazine contains a lot of
interactive pages that are fun and funny. The reader has to
participate; he or she is part of the entertainment.
I predict 90
percent of the kids reading will find 90 percent of it funny and
entertaining.
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For instance, there’s “Star In Your Own
Comic!!” where Ellen Forney gives step-by-step
instructions with suggestions on creating miniautobiographical
stories. Later in the book, “Create a Crimson Comic” by
C. H. Greenblatt, stars the Crimson Chin and Cleft, the Boy Chin
Wonder, from The Fairly OddParents animated series. Here, the
reader is to cut the page into sixteen panels and arrange them into their
own story; multiple arrangements will provide multiple stories.
The “Idiom-tastic Animal Detectives!!!”
provides a cute lesson in what an idiom is along with a series of
hilarious idioms. When you get to the end, you don’t even
realize they haven’t solved the mystery. “The Worst Comic
Book Villains That Never Existed,” by Michael Kupperman is cute
and funny.
As I’m not a Spongebob Squarepants fan, I didn’t find
his pages too humorous, except for the snail that says
“Meow.” But then I think that Maggie Simpson is often the
funniest character on The Simpsons. The “Teeny Weeny
Funny Pages” are among the funniest comics in the book. A few
comic strips run along the bottom of the book under several other
items, across several pages, providing further variety.
“Find Your Dream Boat,” by Jason Shiga, requires
readers to answer five questions, then add the points to find their
ideal mate (I guess kids are starting young — or is this for a
parent?). Answers range from a Sumo wrestler covered in paint to
Frankenstein’s monster. (Doesn’t sound too promising,
does it?)
I was delighted to see my favorite single-panel cartoonist Gahan
Wilson represented giving away his secrets in “How You Can
Do Gag Cartoons!” Wilson published a cartoon in every issue
of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine for over fifteen years
and you may have seen his hilarous and creepy work in Playboy
and National Lampoon.
One of the nifty things about the book is the range of material;
some of the simplest items are the funniest to me, and I predict 90
percent of the kids reading will find 90 percent of it funny and
entertaining.
This book will definitely keep kids interested, and if you’re
a parent or a sibling, you can have just as much fun along with them
reading; solving puzzles, games, and cut-outs. The reader can put
it down and come back to it several times (as I did). Highly
recommended.
—CCdC—
Cover image supplied by publisher.
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