Finding Nemo

I have to hand it to Michael Raicht, Brian Smith, and Jake Myler. Several times when I was reading the latest issue of “Finding Nemo,” I thought to myself, “I bet Pixar wishes they’d thought of this for a sequel first.” For those not up to date with “Losing Dory,” Marlin, Nemo, and company are trying to find Dory, who disappeared during a field trip to a nearby park, but they keep running into trouble of their own. Meanwhile, Dory’s been tricked into thinking she’s going to perform for an audience of fish, but really she’s being set up as a sacrifice to lure (and be eaten by) a huge fish-eating monster away from the reef of her kidnappers. “Losing Dory” is a nice twist on the original film; instead of having Nemo lost yet again, we get Nemo and his dad Marlin side-by-side, but there’s still the missing-fish-quest that needs to be performed. Swapping Dory and Nemo (as well as adding in some of Nemo’s friends) works better than expected; Dory’s scatterbrained nature is driving her kidn

BOOM! Kids has done a bang-up job of rolling out books featuring readily accessible stories of the world-famous characters from the Pixar films, and “Finding Nemo” is no exception. Everything a new reader needs to know happens right here, no previous experience necessary. Except the “right here” of this issue drags on a bit. Raicht and Smith do a good job of capturing the voices of the characters from the film, from Dory’s eagerness and unmatched forgetfulness to Marlin’s excessive need for rules and order. The story itself, however, seems formulaic and a bit stale. There’s the requisite harrowing adventure, the embarrassing introduction to a new character and the not-quite-so-happy ending. My expectations might have been set extremely high, but it truly is Pixar’s fault that they are that high. Well, that combined with several issues of “The Incredibles” being co-penned Mark Waid. That said, this issue didn’t actually disappoint me as such, so much as it didn’t find its way to my