January 26, 2015

Here’s the only official Rayman comic (as far as I know). It was done for a special issue of the Disney Adventures magazine in “Winter 2000”, although it was also printed in the UK’s equivalent Disney’s Big Time in 2001 (the print presented here is the UK one, which has a blue background as opposed to white). It was a gaming-themed issue and also included comics for Donkey Kong 64, Ape Escape, and Crash Team Racing.

The comic itself is obviously based on Rayman 2, with Ray going against Razorbeard and his Robo-Pirates with the help of Globox and Ly. The art is fun if a little wonky here and there, but the script is pretty uninspired, simplistic and exclusively reliant on puns for humour. It doesn’t really add anything to the universe either, but at least Globox doesn’t talk like a big dumb-dumb.

After the Rayman series was undermined by Rabbids, there were a number of Rabbids comics, but by that point they’d mostly divorced themselves from their Rayman origins (so to speak). The only other adaptation for Rayman was the animated series, which is pretty much an alternate continuity for the second game, it seems. More on that later.

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