Look, I like it but you need to understand I also rented Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue from the video store every chance I got. My dad still gets a shell-shocked look in his eye when it comes up, and he would warn you my opinion here is extremely biased.

The big crossover part of Nacelleverse is the introduction of The Great Garloo (based on a toy from the 60s) when his home planet is blasted to piece while he's away looking for work. He has a completely understandable outburst, and gets bailed out of space jail by some delivery dude who "just wants to help." They zoom along through a collection of 1980s cartoon worlds, most of which are a little before my time). On Mars, the Biker Mice show Garloo his buddy's true colors before shipping him off the Detroit on Earth with Roboforce - firmly linking the franchises into the larger Nacelleverse. After that, we get a storyline about the Plutarkian invasion on Mars for its resources, a bit of good old-fashioned eco-vigilante action, and a solid prologue to the Biker Mice from Mars cartoon before switching over to a Roboforce storyline. It's fun in the style of one of my favorite childhood cartoons, and the characters are handled well.

Is it a cash-grab from a toy company? Of course it is. But that's also how these characters came into being to begin with, and we're getting real comic book professionals playing in the sandbox. It's a fun read, and I intend to keep up with the Biker Mice from Mars comics from Oni anyway. I like it a hell of a lot better than those Thundercats comics from Wildstorm.