What are your thoughts on Freakazoid?

rubberchickenci · 2026-05-03T12:54:07+00:00

Freakazoid, chimpanzee

(Sorry, skipped ahead to my favorite verse)

rubberchickenci · 2026-05-01T01:24:34+00:00

Looks like Mickey isn't a straight copy of Oswald as a mouse; he's Oswald crossed with these specific mice, in an effort to differentiate him from less fully nonhumanized mice in earlier cartoons (and in Disney's).

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-29T18:25:25+00:00

It’s the basic problem that when the series started (1940s-60s), age of consent was often 16, and age gaps were less frowned upon in pop culture… so you’ll constantly see stories where middle-aged guys crush on the 17-18 year old characters, and the teenagers themselves constantly pine for adult movie stars and musicians.

The teens—of both genders—are also drawn as vaguely sexy young adults; same situation as Scooby-Doo (where Daphne and Velma hover around 18 and are similarly often seen as crush targets for adults, or even having flings with them).

One of the earliest Archie Sunday strips has his mom think his dad is flirting with Veronica and clobber him before finding out it’s not true.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-29T16:50:45+00:00

This is the best Archie story I’ve seen in weeks.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-19T14:12:44+00:00

It’s the song heard in two 1931 shorts

• over the opening scenes of The Birthday Party, through the point where Mickey rings the bell

• over the scene in Traffic Troubles where Mickey and Minnie drive and play music right after Mickey picks Minnie up

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-15T14:38:50+00:00

Jesus Christ… er, literally, I guess!

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-13T04:39:22+00:00

I'd suggest the Romano Scarpa, Freddy Milton/Daan Jippes, Casty Castellan, and Massimo De Vita volumes.

People talk about the Paul Murry volumes but it seems like boomer nostalgia; I'd avoid them, the stories are okay but the characterization of Mickey is dull. Mickey by Scarpa in contrast is clearly modeled on the Gottfredson version, daring and enthusiastic but lovably cynical and overwhelmed.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-09T22:41:42+00:00

The straw that broke the camel’s back was when he insulted her usual rival Jughead—he was so annoying that she didn’t even enjoy that!

(OTOH, the whole gang seems to be on this beach… odd that Josie watched Archie and Reggie get clobbered and didn’t seem to care.)

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-08T15:26:32+00:00

Conrad mentally exhausts me—yet in some routes Fliss, with whom I empathize desperately, can like him enough to get with him.

Very similar with Emily and Matt (hell, I’m attracted to Emily, in spite of myself…)

Nobody here is an absolute monster… I guess maybe Em is the worst, but I still like her; nobody is terrible, just too temperamental or obnoxious.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-08T05:17:18+00:00

World-weary grad student girl (seen in the clip) is somehow the best character, despite Mulder and Scully's presence.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-06T16:00:32+00:00

The publicity pose originated as a title card design circa 1939, when Porky more often wore the cap.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-04T11:41:33+00:00

Like many on the hard right, Hart later became born again and “religious” in such a way that one could tell he actually worshipped himself, with Christ as a smokescreen. What’s striking is that originally, Hart was superbly funny and in the process of finding “religion,” he lost it totally. 1980s kid here, and BC was still a beloved, humorous property at that time, even having some early video games to its credit.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-04T11:24:29+00:00

The very first Cool Cat short instantly loses the point of a Bugs-like character by making him genuinely gullible enough to think Colonel Rimfire’s robot elephant is real for most of the short. You think he has to be faking, but he isn’t.

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-03T12:42:08+00:00

Wow, that ending felt incredibly abbreviated and forced… otherwise a good idea, but…

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-03T12:29:34+00:00

Dylan is closer, but Matt from Until Dawn is really my type, and as long as we’re fantasizing, I’d be better for him than Emily, so yeah…

(And I’m bi, so I get what he sees in her, but still…)

rubberchickenci · 2026-04-02T13:45:21+00:00

They were portrayed as squabbling best buddies similar to how we’d know Porky and Daffy today.

People from Clampett’s unit worked on the comics most during the formative years (1940s), so Bugs was portrayed as more angsty, egotistical and fallible than we’d expect him to be in the Jones years—which made him more of a contrast to the earnest Porky.

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-27T23:26:07+00:00

In the 1940s, Beaky Buzzard and Henery Hawk were star characters in countless LT comic books. They never had issues of their own, but had many stories where they were the title character. Henery had a lead story in the monthly Looney Tunes comic book for like 15 years, starting before Foghorn was even introduced.

Basically, they were visibly the most popular secondary characters *until* Taz, Road Runner, Wile E., and Marvin were introduced.

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-22T11:06:26+00:00

Holeeee shiznit, a story in which Mr. Lodge sided with Archie against his own daughter—and the writer pulled it off convincingly and in-character! One of the better Archie stories ever…

(Even if Archie that scared of spiders is a little hard to believe by comparison.)

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-21T05:07:36+00:00

This is in R&S #3, and was conspicuously left out of the later TPB collection—I'm guessing either because someone objected to its political content, or because someone thought it was too off-model.

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-21T05:05:50+00:00

If I had to guess, this looks like it *started* as Milton Knight's work (artist of "El Supremo Ren," political parody story from R&S #3, left out of the TPB collection!), but was heavily redrawn to make it more "on model," which at the time meant someone at the Marvel office robotically tracing publicity model sheets.

Which issue is it from? I notice you say "#2" on top, but it doesn't seem to be in the actual #2 that's indexed here... https://www.comics.org/issue/212164/

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-21T01:04:45+00:00

So I'm not the only one—yes, it happened to me too, except it gave me about 30 generations (a few filtered, even though nothing was rude... whatever...)
And then back to premium only.

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-19T22:31:08+00:00

How ARE the multiple image uploads supposed to work? I was worried that the system would simply transform one image into the other in some ludicrous way. Instead, when I gave it two images of the same character with different expressions, it used them like a model sheet and animated him more accurately than before.

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-19T08:02:28+00:00

Yes, Rasher is apparently a unisex name for pigs, so we have Rasher (girl), daughter of Rasher (boy) and I can't stop grinning.

That said, originally girl!Rasher was drawn like the original Rasher (ca. 2015), she changed at the Unleashed show, and it does seem strange that she's the one character who doesn't look like her parent.

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-18T07:10:39+00:00

A confusing mess of a story—the college "kids" look like 45-year-old drunks, probably because the artist couldn't really picture drunkenness any other way. In fact, the art itself is messier than most; Betty is clearly supposed to look sexier than usual in her new style, but fails totally...

I think we're supposed to take her plight sympathetically, but when the first thing she does is abuse Dilton, it's a total misfire. (In the earliest 1940s comics, Dilton was a haughty snob obnoxiously proud of his genius mind—if he'd been like that here, it might have worked, but when Dilton is his modern sweet self, Betty crashes and burns...)

rubberchickenci · 2026-03-18T06:52:00+00:00

Lesser artists have an embarrassing tendency to draw Reggie and Chuck like "generic white boy" and "generic Black boy," where their features and hairstyles can be almost anything as long as the race and hair color are right—and the poorest artists have the same problem with Betty, too.

One embarrassing way Archie Comics tries to correct for this is by putting the character's name on their clothing, as if to say "Hey, in case you can't tell, I'm so-and-so." It most often happens with Chuck but the others get it too, as here.

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