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Back with part two of First Comics’ 1983 Hostess ad parodies from E-MAN, today we start with HEMBECK from issue 6. My friend Fred’s cartoon doppelganger had been a familiar fandom figure for a decade by this point and had already had several collections published of his strips. His current astute ramblings can be found, among other places, here: fred hembeck.
NEXUS was arguably the best comic to come out of the Independents Revolution.
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Cutey Bunny regularly skirted the bounds of good taste in ARMY SURPLUS COMICS,
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BUCK GODOT, ZAP GUN FOR HIRE
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Apparently, the joke wore thin on someone (perhaps Hostess? A parody is one thing but a running parody??) so E-MAN number 10 offers one last one in which Bruce D. Patterson (as BeeDeeP) ends the concept quite finally and violently! (((SHUDDER!!)))
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Whew! Finished! That was hard work. Luckily I had my Hostess Ho-Ho’s for energy1 Mmmm…tasty!
"... drawn by Joshua Quagmire (who turned out to be…?)."
ReplyDeleteOk, I give up. Who did Joshua Quagmire turn out to be?
Keith