Howard The Duck Returns

[mbaker]

Steve Gerber is bringing his cigar smoking waterfowl back into the comic world under Marvel's new MAX line. This first issue will poke fun at Disney, and the current rut it's in. Click on this artical for more information.

http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Comics&action=page&obj_id=32393

[Terminatah]

Then all hope is not lost!

-Terminatah

[Bird Boy]

Howard the Duck? Man, I remeber that movie...George Lucas's first....and boy was it weird....lol

-BB

[Joe Tully]

Yeah, the comics were much better than the movie. I've only seen part of the movie but wasn't really too impressed. The comics are actually good and had a good following until Gerber left. Unfortunately, they got a bad reputation from the movie that was based on the comics.

[Jimmy Kustes]

What is it about?

[Joe Tully]

It's about a duck and his girlfriend, they sort of have adventures happen to them and it winds up as a satire of various things. There should be a Howard the Duck Essentials coming out soon, so that should be a bunch of issues for cheap if you wanted to learn about him. Plus you can find back issues fairly easily too.

[mbaker]

Despite what many people think, I loved the movie. It was a fun ride. Howard The Duck should've been out on DVD years ago. I'll agree that if the movie had any of the satire that made the comic unique, it probably would've helped out in the long run. Howard's creator, Steve Gerber has also written a few Batman, and Superman episodes. He even co wrote "The Batman/Superman Movie" Just thought i'd point that out.

[Terminatah]

The Howard the Duck movie, starring the irrepressible Lea Thompson, was technologically groundbreaking. That was the first time an actor put on an animatronic talking puppet head that would go on to bring other characters to life in the movies. This peaked with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and, to a lesser degree, the show Dinosaurs.

-Terminatah

[Supernovametalstar]

I don't know how factual this is, as I read it from a website a long time ago, but it seems that Howard the Duck in its fourth or fifth week out actually beat out the opening week of Transformers the Movie. Talk about injustice :p .

[The Mad Hatter]

Ah, I really dug the comic books. The conceit was that he was "trapped in a world he never made!" So, in a ludicrous way, he would be able to look at our various failings and idiosyncrasies and comment on them from an outsider's perspective. (Come to think of it, the guy who does Mallard Fillmore pretty much stole the idea of the comics and gave it a Republican slant. Hardly an "outsider's" perspective, though.)

And how the first issue is one big dig at Disney... considering how Disney threw a fit about Howard two decades ago, that's certainly appropriate.