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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 20, 2024 18:02:20 GMT -5
Comedy stars of the 1950s - The Three Stooges had multiple comic book series. So did Abbott & Costello. Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope each had long-running comic series. Why wasn't there a Bowery Boys comic book? If even "The Great Gildersleeve" can have a brief comic book run, then why not?  And speaking of comedy related comics, I'm still surprised at how many "Married With Children" books we got from NOW  |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Apr 24, 2024 11:28:57 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised The Greatest American Hero didn't get a comic until 2008. That is a good question! Here's one that doesn't quite qualify, but has always irked me: When DC released Wednesday Comics as a tabloid, I enjoyed it but found (as I usually do from Marvel and DC anthology titles) that the near-exclusive focus on superhero titles made the overall package too homogenous in tone. I'd have loved to have seen a page devoted to single-tier humor strips (Binky, Super-Turtle, Sugar & Spike, etc), and ... Wednesday Comics came out the same time as the Jonah Hex film! Now, that crashed and burned pretty much, but of course that wasn't known in advance, so why was there no cross-promotion at all? A single Jonah Hex page would have both added more variety to the series and also hyped the film a bit and maybe attracted some attention from the half-dozen people who actually watched the movie. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Apr 24, 2024 11:38:47 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised The Greatest American Hero didn't get a comic until 2008. That is a good question! Here's one that doesn't quite qualify, but has always irked me: When DC released Wednesday Comics as a tabloid, I enjoyed it but found (as I usually do from Marvel and DC anthology titles) that the near-exclusive focus on superhero titles made the overall package too homogenous in tone. I'd have loved to have seen a page devoted to single-tier humor strips (Binky, Super-Turtle, Sugar & Spike, etc), and ... Wednesday Comics came out the same time as the Jonah Hex film! Now, that crashed and burned pretty much, but of course that wasn't known in advance, so why was there no cross-promotion at all? A single Jonah Hex page would have both added more variety to the series and also hyped the film a bit and maybe attracted some attention from the half-dozen people who actually watched the movie. Sgt. Rock and Kamanadi did make it in there for non-Super-hero features. Not a lot granted, but enough that it wasn't exclusively super-heroes. And I have a feeling that series was more about let's ask a creative team what feature they would like to do than let's get a creative team for x feature. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 28, 2024 7:49:58 GMT -5
That is a good question! Here's one that doesn't quite qualify, but has always irked me: When DC released Wednesday Comics as a tabloid, I enjoyed it but found (as I usually do from Marvel and DC anthology titles) that the near-exclusive focus on superhero titles made the overall package too homogenous in tone. I'd have loved to have seen a page devoted to single-tier humor strips (Binky, Super-Turtle, Sugar & Spike, etc), and ... Wednesday Comics came out the same time as the Jonah Hex film! Now, that crashed and burned pretty much, but of course that wasn't known in advance, so why was there no cross-promotion at all? A single Jonah Hex page would have both added more variety to the series and also hyped the film a bit and maybe attracted some attention from the half-dozen people who actually watched the movie. Sgt. Rock and Kamanadi did make it in there for non-Super-hero features. Not a lot granted, but enough that it wasn't exclusively super-heroes. And I have a feeling that series was more about let's ask a creative team what feature they would like to do than let's get a creative team for x feature. -M Also, the Adam Strange feature definitely felt like a classic pulpy sci-fi strip than a superhero comic. |
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