Sunday, January 9, 2011  Comics Review: CHIP AND DALE'S RESCUE
RANGERS #2 (January 2011, Boom! Studios)  In part two of
"Worldwide Rescue," Boom!'s RESCUE RANGERS creative team one-ups
its splashy debut -- and shows considerable guts, besides, given
its stated concerns about satisfying the Rangers' demanding fan
base -- by boldly striding directly into the midst of territory
normally staked out by and quarreled over solely by C&DRR
fans... namely, the area of character backstory. Then, the
proverbial rug is just as boldly jerked out from under the
readers' feet with a shocking/poignant moment that is a match
for some of the better "character-building" episodes of the TV
series. You'd better believe that this merits some    I figured
that we had a good chance of seeing Foxglove here, given that
"Brazilian bats" were among the animals affected by the misuse
of the Animal Rescue Signal, but I didn't expect that she would
be in a pre-adventure flashback... and I doubly didn't expect
that Foxy's "retired" father E