Comments on: Collecting Critter Comic Books, Kinda

By: Collin David

Collin David — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:51:45 +0000

I’m actually very interested in reading Cerebus, if only for the legendary insanity of Dave Sim!

It’s a shame that much anthropomorphism has been claimed by anime / animal fetishists and iit’s become more of a NAUGHTY than a FUN thing,

By: Derek Dahlsad

Derek Dahlsad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:23:49 +0000

The first dozen or two TMNT comics (I have the bound TPB collection) were actually pretty good in that gritty indie-comic vibe. The parodies in the ten-cent-bin tend to lean on parodying the TMNT cartoon and its popularity. A few aren’t strictly in the funnybook-vein, like Rocket Racoon (whose storyline is actually pretty good for a funny-animal book); if you begin to add in more critically acclaimed anthropomorphism like Cerebus, Usagi Yojimbo, Pogo, etc., there’s a continuum of these guys that includes everybody from Donald Duck to The Hair Bear Bunch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_funny_animals_in_media
It just happens that my pockets are only deep enough to afford the rejects

By: Collin David

Collin David — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:18:15 +0000

I’ve always found these to be the WORST of the 80’s comic fads – which, of course, makes them all the more appealing. I mean, Ninja Turtles came early on, and it was a parody. Then came Gerbils and Kangaroos of various long-named genesis, which were parodies of a parody – when does it end? How removed and reliant from the source material can you BE before you implode?

Please note that 95% of these were published on indie labels because no respectable comic publisher would touch them.

A fun read! Lots of BAD MEMORIES.

By: Derek Dahlsad

Derek Dahlsad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:43:48 +0000

Nooooo! You’ve given away the location of my secret stash — now we have to increase security, lest un-furry ninjas sneak in and run off with my priceless collection of Ambush Bug comics! There goes the kid’s college fund.