For a while in my youth, my favorite TV show was Speed Racer. I would grow up to do a bit of work on the Speed Racer comic books (really, it was my first work in the field).
This week, the show my two kids, 7 and 2, have been eager for is Speed Racer: The Next Generation. And despite the visual awkwardness of this part cheap CGI, part badly flat animated series, and working through a long-term storyline that I’m not sure pays off enough along the way (from Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmioti, who have writ some good comic books), it’s still very heartening to see them enjoy this echo of what Daddy loved.
