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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 9:20:57 GMT -5
I never read pogo. Is it a humor strip or political? It was written in such a way that both adults and children can relate to it. It's combined political satire with a touch of social issues that really set the tone of this comic back in the late 40's to mid 70's when it's ended. It was genuine in a form of slapstick humor, word play, irish humor, and burlesque humor. that both children and adults can enjoy. It a very rare to have all this for anyone to pick it up and enjoy the antics and the adventures of its anthropomorphic funny animal characters that cartoonist Walt Kelly put together.  This is best that I can do for the moment. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 22, 2019 9:33:44 GMT -5
That was a really apt description, Mech. Well done!
Cei-U!
I summon the awesome possum!
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2019 9:34:01 GMT -5
I never read pogo. Is it a humor strip or political? Sometimes it's this kind of funny...  And sometimes it's this kind...  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 22, 2019 11:12:13 GMT -5
I don't know about entire titles, other than Calvin & Hobbs which I read in the newspaper as a kid, long before I got into comic books and always enjoyed because of the light hearted feel to it.
As far as comic books, a few individual issues I go to for laughs and or feel good
Uncanny X-Men #337. The entire issue is just them chilling out cooking a meal together, then eating before going out to play football on the front lawn.
Justice League Quarterly #2. A hilariously fun issue with Nebula in it. A character I didn't know before I read this issue. Non stop laughs through the whole issue.
Taboo and Backlash's African Holiday #1. I know nothing about either character, but there was dinosaurs on the cover so I bought it. They go on a vacation to work out things in their marriage until they come across this incredibly inept but arrogant villain who has brought back dinosaurs to rule the world. It's so mad scientist funny. Add the stabs Taboo and Backlash take at each other squabbling about their marriage while fighting dinosaurs. Absolute fun.
Gon. Several mangas about a mini T-Rex that gets into various adventures. While he does encounter enemies, the overall feeling is really light hearted. There's no text, it's painstakingly drawn by Masashi Tanaka and is in B&W.
Deadpool/Agent X. The first series by Joe Kelly and Gail Simone was about the best Deadpool's been. Yeah there's a lot of serious stuff and violence (at least what's allowed by the comic code) by Deadpool's dialogue and banter was done well by Kelly and Simone and didn't come off as obnoxious and awful as he's been since this series. This series was a good balance between the badass mercenary from his origins and what he is today.
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Post by berkley on Feb 22, 2019 15:49:02 GMT -5
As a kid, the dialect or slang in Pogo always threw me off a bit and made it a less than smooth read for me. Of course the political stuff mostly went over my head at the time. I'll have to try it one of these days and see if I like it asny better now.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 22, 2019 16:01:56 GMT -5
It helps if you read the dialogue out loud. There's a rhythm and poetry to it that is sometimes hard to appreciate until you hear it.
Cei-U!
I summons that ole lightnin'!`
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2019 17:34:49 GMT -5
As a kid, the dialect or slang in Pogo always threw me off a bit and made it a less than smooth read for me. Of course the political stuff mostly went over my head at the time. I'll have to try it one of these days and see if I like it asny better now. You will. Immerse yourself in it. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2019 19:04:33 GMT -5
I've been thinking about this for a week or so and came up with my Feel Good comics. It has to be Avengers #1-25. I really enjoyed the camaraderie of the original 5 and what they became when Cap was left with the newcomers. The Kirby and Don Heck artwork will always be ingrained in my mind.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 26, 2019 9:11:25 GMT -5
Further deliberation allows me to add a few more goodies which always feel good to re-read. That is the joy of feel good comics: you can always find more you had forgotten about when you dig through the old long boxes.
Godzilla: the Marvel comics run. "Zilla's USA vacation of good old fashioned entertainment.
Micronauts issues 1-12 by Mantlo and Golden. Best kind of fantasy/science fiction fun and games.
Star Wars 1-6 collecting/adapting the movie. Has its flaws but reminds me every time how great a time it was with the original movie out and the comic and novelization were all we had. Pure excitement.
Metamorpho 1-17. Zany, outrageously silly laugh out loud at times.
Doom Patrol/My Greatest Adventures. The original group of outcasts. Love their interactions, insults and in house arguing/family fights and charm. Add in Beast Brat and then it really gets fun.
The Demon: Kirby riffing on the universal Monster's motif and it doesn't get much better than this.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 26, 2019 9:33:08 GMT -5
it's funny but after what I wrote, I kind of was bummed out this past weekend and ended up reading Fantastic Four 208-214. Marv Wolfman and Byrne spin a great story involving Galactus battling the Sphinx while the 4 try to prevent dying from an aging ray that the Skrulls administered as a death sentence. Great moments and great dialogue from the big G.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 16:06:39 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 6, 2019 17:40:55 GMT -5
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 6, 2019 18:33:28 GMT -5
The various May "Mayday" Parker Spider-Girl comics. Great characters, good art, strong continuity, accessibility, seriousness and lighthearted fun in perfect balance, real change rather than the illusion of change — they're absolutely everything modern mainstream superhero comics should be.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 18, 2019 8:19:11 GMT -5
Saturday afternoon found my delivery from Amazon of the 1st two POGO collection books. Talk about some kind of heavy, these books will give you a work out lifting them to read. Dug right in after dinner and read several pages so as to jump start my memories of reading Walt Kelly's swamp saga in the Sunday funny pages of our local newspaper during the 70's. These are incredibly written and illustrated gem's. The 1st thing that has jumped to my attention is how Albert the Alligator (and others) is shown smoking and has cigars with him all of the time. What a change of the times as it denotes when smoking was something everyone did and was considered as NOT being visually reprehensible and influential in contributing to children growing up to smoke. Wonder if Ma Grimm's favorite son and agent Fury miss their stogies? Pogo himself is just all kinds of sweetness and innocence in the start of this, growing over time to become much smarter and cynical very quickly. I had totally forgotten about Porky Pine and he has quickly become a favorite part of the swamp ensemble. Kelly quickly learned to develop different characters so as to keep the antics fresh and different each week and some of the gag's are quite hilarious considering there is only 3-4 panels to set up and deliver the punch line. Kind of nice to get up in the morning and read a page or three of Pogo over breakfast before going off to face the drudgery of work. Those swamp folk shore enough is all kinds of entertainin' chillen!!!Thanks to those who mentioned POGO during this thread and put it in the forefront of my wanting to get  |
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