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Joe Murray
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I recently picked up HOWARD THE DUCK COMPLETE COLLECTION, VOL. 1 and am giving it a read for the first time ever.  Completely skipped the Duck the first time 'round.

I'm having a lil trouble in that I can't "hear" his voice.  I fell onto Daffy Duck now and again, but that doesn't work at all.  Anyone have any helpful hints on who or what Howard may sound like?

I brought along a visual aid:


PS: I skipped the movie the first time round, so I haven't referenced it.
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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

It's a little tough, since I was only tangentially familiar with the character when the movie came out, and the voice sort of got stuck in my head.  He's supposed to be an everyman (yeah, yeah, everyduck) character, so the straight-up middle-class me-generation adult male will fit.

Note that no-one in the comic ever comments on his voice, so I think it's just kind of 'there.'  Seth Green was as good a choice as any.


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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

BTW: Do yourself a favor and track down the 6-issue miniseries Gerber did for Marvel Max around the turn of the century.  It's great - one of those times a creator returns to their creation after a long break and finds not only their old groove but new things to say with it.
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Neil Lindholm
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I always visualize a 1940's New Yorker voice. 
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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Honestly, I wonder if he just sounds like Steve Gerber?
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Neil Lindholm
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Well, I'm off to buy the complete 4-volume complete collection. Thanks a lot for spending my money. I loved Howard the Duck back in the day and it will be fun to read them again. 
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Brian Hague
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Maybe his voice is like that of someone from Cleveland, since that is where he landed when he got here, and his home back on his world may have been a sort of Cleveland analog. I'd say a Cleveland accent, without any of Donald's garbled duckspeak or Daffy's sloppy sibilance. 

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Neil Lindholm
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As a foreigner, I have no idea what a Cleveland accent sounds like. 
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Dave Kopperman
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Picture Harvey Pekar?  Marvel actually tried to get him to write a HTD book back in the 80's, when he wouldn't agree to such a thing (which is a very Howard kind of thing).
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Ron Grant
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

He always had Archie Bunker's voice when I read him.
Don't ask why because I don't know.


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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 13 February 2019 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

 Dave Kopperman wrote:
...Picture Harvey Pekar?...

Not a bad choice. LOL!

For anyone unfamiliar with Harvey Pekar, he was the writer of the comic book "American Splendor." Paul Giamatti played him in the biopic by the same name.

Here's clips of Pekar on "Late Night With David Letterman" for reference:



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John Byrne

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Posted: 14 February 2019 at 6:43am | IP Logged | 12 post reply

I loved Howard the Duck back in the day and it will be fun to read them again.

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I hope so! I revisited the Duck by way of the ESSENTIAL collection, and found the passing years had not been kind. Very much of its time and place.

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