Comments on: Essential Howard the Duck http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Fri, 25 May 2012 03:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Charlie Hancock http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34543 Charlie Hancock Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:12:15 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34543 Howard The Duck is my favoritest thing Marvel ever did. (Bendis' "Alias" comes close.) Gene Colan was the ideal artist for the series. Having read it when originally published in the '70s, and the recent Essential collection, it doesn't feel dated at all. I agree that the stories not scripted by Steve Gerber don't count as real Howard stories. Howard The Duck is my favoritest thing Marvel ever did. (Bendis’ “Alias” comes close.) Gene Colan was the ideal artist for the series. Having read it when originally published in the ’70s, and the recent Essential collection, it doesn’t feel dated at all.

I agree that the stories not scripted by Steve Gerber don’t count as real Howard stories.

]]> By: Stuart Moore http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34370 Stuart Moore Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:00:09 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34370 Oops -- meant "Ed" there, not "Ralf"! --Stuart Oops — meant “Ed” there, not “Ralf”!

–Stuart

]]> By: Stuart Moore http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34369 Stuart Moore Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:59:22 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34369 Ralf: I consulted on this while at Marvel Knights, and I was the person who urged the tpb people to increase the page count, in order to reach the end of the original Steve Gerber run. (At the time, the ESSENTIAL volumes collected a pretty rigid 24 issues per book. They've gotten longer since then.) Steve did dialogue one later issue, over Mark Evanier's plot; but this book collects all of the "real" Gerber issues. Ralf: I consulted on this while at Marvel Knights, and I was the person who urged the tpb people to increase the page count, in order to reach the end of the original Steve Gerber run. (At the time, the ESSENTIAL volumes collected a pretty rigid 24 issues per book. They’ve gotten longer since then.)

Steve did dialogue one later issue, over Mark Evanier’s plot; but this book collects all of the “real” Gerber issues.

]]> By: Journalista » Blog Archive » Oct. 19, 2006: I’d pay to hear her say “pants,” too http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34360 Journalista » Blog Archive » Oct. 19, 2006: I’d pay to hear her say “pants,” too Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:27:57 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34360 [...] Johanna Draper Carlson takes a look at Marvel’s Essential Howard the Duck, Volume One. [...]

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson takes a look at Marvel’s Essential Howard the Duck, Volume One. [...]

]]> By: Dan http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34348 Dan Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:52:14 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34348 See, I always thought of Howard the Duck as pure unadulterated social satire, and that never gets dated. Gerber's book was always about waay more than simple "genre bending" or "zaniness". I have both this essential volume (mostly because I was gonna review it)(thanks a lot Johanna:) as well as the original books, and one thing I did notice, the stories do not suffer one bit from not being in color. In fact, it almost works better in black & white. Nice review on this Johanna. See, I always thought of Howard the Duck as pure unadulterated social satire, and that never gets dated. Gerber’s book was always about waay more than simple “genre bending” or “zaniness”. I have both this essential volume (mostly because I was gonna review it)(thanks a lot Johanna:) as well as the original books, and one thing I did notice, the stories do not suffer one bit from not being in color. In fact, it almost works better in black & white.

Nice review on this Johanna.

]]> By: Ralf Haring http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34323 Ralf Haring Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:00:29 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34323 I picked this up when it came out and only got around to reading it a few months ago. I came to the opposite conclusion that it's impact must have dulled with time. The genre-bending and zaniness that must have been unique and groundbreaking in the 70s is commonplace now. It's been imitated so many times, that that element of work failed to interest me. I picked this up when it came out and only got around to reading it a few months ago. I came to the opposite conclusion that it’s impact must have dulled with time. The genre-bending and zaniness that must have been unique and groundbreaking in the 70s is commonplace now. It’s been imitated so many times, that that element of work failed to interest me.

]]> By: Ed Sizemore http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/18/essential-howard-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-34320 Ed Sizemore Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:32:55 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/25/essential-howard-the-duck/#comment-34320 Johanna, I really enjoyed reading these comics. I was upset that the book didn't collect the entire original series. Johanna, I really enjoyed reading these comics. I was upset that the book didn’t collect the entire original series.

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