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Houston Mitchell
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| Posted: 05 September 2025 at 1:29am | IP Logged | 1
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I really enjoyed Fred Hembeck's "Fantastic Four Roast"
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 September 2025 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | 2
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We got some terrific stuff from Fred’s fifteen minutes of fame!
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Shaun Barry
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Hembeck's FF is one of the best!
When I was around 10, I read this one over & over... still gives me a chuckle thinking about some of the jokes:
Looking over the Marvel talent involved, and it's 1982 publication date, I'm surprised there was no work of yours included, JB. Were you ever approached?
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Rick Senger
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Loved that What If issue too! Also The Fred Hembeck FF Roast, Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe and some of the old Not Brand Ecch! issues from the 60s.
I'd add that JB's Sensational She Hulk was regularly, reliably hilarious in an era when both Marvel and DC sometimes seemed a bit deadly serious.
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Wallace Sellars
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Dave Kopperman wrote:
| Cole is obviously genius nonpareil, though humor is one of those things that is a) highly subjective, and b) frequently period/context specific, so I confess to finding the Baker issues funnier in the moment. |
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My Plastic Man is the one Ramona Fradon drew. There hasn’t been any other comic book version that’s grabbed and held my attention.
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Eric Jansen
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Well, SHE-HULK of course!
But there were quite a few SPIRITs by Will Eisner too, just not usually in a row.
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Vinny Valenti
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That WHAT IF issue is where I took "Don't Squeeze the Shaman" from. I've used it more often that I thought I would. My wife and I were on a spiritual tour in Arizona a couple of years ago and she hugged the tour guide goodbye, where I couldn't help but exclaim exactly that. He got a hearty laugh out of it, at least (yes, he was an actual shaman).
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John Byrne
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Looking over the Marvel talent involved, and it's 1982 publication date, I'm surprised there was no work of yours included, JB. Were you ever approached?•• No. What's with that anencephalic Watcher??
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Brian ONeill
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Clearly, the reality Bob Layton mentions in his signature was not this one!
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John OConnor
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Jean- Michael -- if you're still in the tri state area...
Edited by John OConnor on 23 September 2025 at 7:04pm
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Robert Walter Auberger
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Humor for me, like music and arts, needs a certain kind of freshness. I remember when I discovered Monty Python, I would laugh my ass of off many, many of their sketches. But they have been copied so much, their sense of humor and absurdity has entered so much into the mainstream that it has become standard and is not so funny now. Their way of thinking to the absurd and being funny was everywhere.
Same with the Simpsons. We used to quote so much Simpsons lines, because they were incredibly funny. Then came the imitators and now an early Simpsons joke is regarded mildly funny if at all.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin.
Anything by Goscinny (Asterix, Iznogood, Luky Luke...)
Calvin & Hobbes.
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