I just added on my sidebar, right next to the support the comic book legal defense fund, a picture of Howard the Duck. I had to point this out. Howard was and remains one of my favorite comic books of all time. Of course Howard is copyright by Marvel Comics, but he was created by Steve Gerber. Yes, the same Gerber I was just talking about in a recent post about his other creation Omega the Unknown. I went into some of the legal battle Gerber had with Marvel over the ownership of the duck in the Omega post so I won't repeat it here.
To me Howard is one of the best written comic books. Still. Marvel recently reprinted most of his run in their Essential series, the black and white reprints of comic series. I love this series, yes, it may not be in color, but where else are you going to get two or three dozen issues of a comic for under thirty dollars. I think the Essential series only had like three or four issues to go before they finished the series before it was canceled. I wish they had packed in those last few issues, now they'll never be reprinted.
Now if Marvel would just reprint Gerber's Defenders stories.
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I hope I dont bring the intelligence level down here with this comment, but wasnt Howard the Duck like REALLY preverted?
or PERVERTED (sorry...need typing wand)
You can't bring the intelligent level around here down anymore, with me it's pretty rock bottom to start with. The movie Howard was more of a pervert than the comic book. In the comic Bev and Howard were just friends, at least in Gerber's version...later they did make him more of a pervert.
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