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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 25, 2023 8:48:47 GMT -5
heh right.. I definitely thought the first time I saw Kirby's art in a comic 'hey, I wonder if that's the same guy as Thundarr?'
That was definitely my favorite Saturday Morning cartoon as a kid!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2023 11:06:03 GMT -5
Speaking of Thundarr, I was well into adulthood before I learned that Ookla's name was an in-joke for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Post by Calidore on Mar 25, 2023 13:01:53 GMT -5
I'll submit the Batman '66 tv series as a whole, which is an entirely different experience watching it as a young kid vs. an adult.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 25, 2023 14:45:23 GMT -5
... For an example in a non-humor comic, there's an Avengers issue where all of them, including reserve Avengers and the West Coast branch are present. Hawkeye comments "Looks like everyone's here but Steed and Ms. Peel". Again, no knowledge of the Avengers tv show so the line rang hollow... Same here--back then, the "Mrs. Peel" reference in Avengers #83 went completely over my head Roy and Jeanie T. courtesy of the dynamic duo of John Buscema and Tom Palmer!
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Post by tonebone on Mar 26, 2023 18:10:49 GMT -5
One of the very first strip collections I bought with my own money was a paperback of Pogo strips. I honestly can't remember which one it was at this point, but it had a number of the Simple J. Malarkey strips. I had zero idea what was going on in about 1/3 of that book. I still loved it though. I had an aunt who would pass yard-sale-find comics paperbacks to me, and once she gave me a stack of Doonsbury collections. I read them all, and understood NONE of it. NOT A WORD.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 26, 2023 19:18:43 GMT -5
One of the very first strip collections I bought with my own money was a paperback of Pogo strips. I honestly can't remember which one it was at this point, but it had a number of the Simple J. Malarkey strips. I had zero idea what was going on in about 1/3 of that book. I still loved it though. I had an aunt who would pass yard-sale-find comics paperbacks to me, and once she gave me a stack of Doonsbury collections. I read them all, and understood NONE of it. NOT A WORD. Context is a big deal, with a strip that deals with contemporary issues. The Library of American Comics reprints of Bloom County include notations about events related to the strips. That's one of those things, again, with Looney Tunes. Some gags are very specific to the period, like "TURN OUT THAT LIGHT!" You kind of have to know that they are usually wartime cartoons and have to know about blackout regulations. Similarly, there was at least one or two wartime cartoons that had gags about A Cards, which were ration cards. I see that kind of thing, a lot, on Youtube and similar videos where they are looking at past things, through a modern lens, but are oblivious about the evolution of the subject. For instance, theories about things in the original Star Wars, based on things from the prequels, particularly in relation to Luke and Vader (and even Leia). They were not father and son in that film, nor was Vader the main villain. He was the henchman and was always written that way, in earlier script drafts; and, Luke's father and Vader were written as separate characters. It isn't until the second draft of Empire that Vader is merged with Luke's father and everything that people consider to be the SAGA flows from there. Even leaving that aside, they view it as a linear story, from Phantom Menace through Jedi, when it was actually an evolution from Star Wars through Revenge of the Sith, since Lucas was making it up as he went (hence all of the contradictions between movies, which then generate the continuity fixes that have been central to the Disney films and series).
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Post by jason on Mar 28, 2023 13:45:10 GMT -5
One of the very first strip collections I bought with my own money was a paperback of Pogo strips. I honestly can't remember which one it was at this point, but it had a number of the Simple J. Malarkey strips. I had zero idea what was going on in about 1/3 of that book. I still loved it though. I had an aunt who would pass yard-sale-find comics paperbacks to me, and once she gave me a stack of Doonsbury collections. I read them all, and understood NONE of it. NOT A WORD. I liked Doonesbury well enough as a kid, but yeah, most of the poltical humor went over my head, I was more in it for the more surrealistic stuff (Ron Headrest, the Search for Reagan's Brain (where Roland Hedley literally went inside Reagan's head), Mr. Butts, Hunk-Ra,etc). Bloom County, though a lot of that stuff went over my head too, was MUCH more accessible.
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Post by MDG on Mar 28, 2023 13:48:58 GMT -5
There are Firesign Theater gags that didn't click with me for 20 years and dozens (if not hundreds) of listens, like "There's a seeker born every minute," or naming on album side "It's sure realistic!"
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Post by badwolf on Mar 28, 2023 15:13:43 GMT -5
There were some phrases I simply hadn't heard yet as a kid, like "cloak and dagger." When a film came out by that title a year or two later, I wondered what it had to do with the characters.
Or "minor dilemma," which made me miss the joke in the story title "Clark Kent's Mynah Dilemma," from an issue of Superman Family, in which a friend asks Clark to care for her pet mynah bird while she is away, and it starts screaming that Clark Kent is Superman. Turned out the friend was just playing a little joke on Clark by teaching the bird to repeat that line. As far as I can recall, no super-hy0pnosis nor dropping apples on the bird's head was involved.
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Post by james on Apr 2, 2023 12:06:05 GMT -5
It always took me a year or so after reading certain Avengers issues when there was was sexual banter between characters. I remember the first time I came across this was issue 194. While I can’t recall the whole conversation I remember Cap becoming slightly uncomfortable. I didn’t understand his reaction at that moment. Also Tony flirting with Wasp “ if you like my curves you’ll love my dips”. Or something like that.
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