The Muppet Show Comic Book: On the Road

"On the Road" is the first story arc in the ongoing Muppet Show Comic Book series. With the theater still in disarray after the events of The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson, the Muppet gang decides to take their show on the road.

Roger Langridge spoke a bit about the comic in an interview: "The Muppets have to tour while the theatre is being reassembled from the rubble, so they travel from town to town. They discover on the way that, for one thing, Statler and Waldorf have a very large extended family… meanwhile, Fozzie goes solo for a couple of issues, practising his performance skills on the streets (and leaving the gang with an extremely annoying temporary replacement comedian!). This gives me an excuse to do some short back-up Fozzie stories that use some formal tricks like having all the characters speak in pictograms, or constructing a story around letters of the alphabet – which is great fun for me! The final issue has everyone return to the newly-rebuilt theatre, with Gonzo taking the opportunity to run the Gonzo Marathon to raise money for charity as he makes his way back by land, sea, air and, er, fire. (Cannon fire, to be precise.) Boom!, indeed."

Unlike the previous story arc, this one will only last three issues, so that the Pigs in Space one-shot can be included with it in the trade paperback.

Issue #1: Watch That Tiger
With the theater in disarray after the events of "The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson", the Muppet gang decides to take their show on the road! Is the world ready for traveling Muppet minstrels?

"The Muppet Roadshow" makes its first stop in Little Gideon, Ohio. Miss Piggy is afraid that the show won't work without a theater, and Kermit the Frog is worried that he won't make enough money to pay Mister Weazell, who owns the land they're performing on.


 * Release date: January 13, 2010

Issue #2

 * Release date: TBA

Isse #3

 * Release date: TBA

Links

 * Tough Pigs 5-page preview