tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post6398528247552564621..comments2024-03-28T18:31:29.116-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: This Duck, This AardvarkA Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-43236153539158830922013-12-21T16:40:21.815-06:002013-12-21T16:40:21.815-06:00Huh. Howard the Duck (Gerber issues only) and Cere...Huh. Howard the Duck (Gerber issues only) and Cerebus are two of my favorite comics. Can't believe these similarities never occurred to me...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-8558046865799976682013-12-21T00:03:06.882-06:002013-12-21T00:03:06.882-06:00There are many more parallels, some surely coincid...There are many more parallels, some surely coincidental, but many I would guess at least subconsciously influenced:<br /><br />- Both Cerebus and Howard have nascent mystical abilities beyond their control and an implied cosmic destiny;<br /><br />- BOTH start as sword and sorcery parodies. HTD #1 has Howard dressed as a barbarian with a helmet and medallions even! And we also have Korek the Barbarian and Dakihm (paralleling Henrot) in Howard's first appearance.<br /><br />- Beverly in HTD #1 looks and speaks like Red Sophia; they both speak more naturally later;<br /><br />- Bev, Howard's implied love, marries Bong; Jaka marries Rick;<br /><br />- Bev a model; Jaka a dancer;<br /><br />- Winda with a major speech impediment shown using phonetic spelling; Elrod and many others;<br /><br />- Paul the artist character; many artist characters in Cerebus (such as the artist chap)<br /><br />- Both parody the superhero genre, even the same characters (The Spanker/Punisher; Sandman characters)<br /><br />- Both parody real people from similar fields (Oprah, Kiss, Lester Bangs, Rev Moon, Jimmy Carter, Hitler in HTD; Oprah, Mick 'n Keith, Oscar Wilde, Thatcher in Cerebus). Both parodied the Oprah show and from a similar POV.<br /><br />- The Kidney Lady and Henrot Gutch are similar (I realize HG is modeled on a different character, but the original idea was still to have an old, unpleasant, violent woman in the series. Sounds like the Kidney Lady to me!)<br /><br />- Cerebus' drinking vice; Howard's smoking vice;<br /><br />- Cerebus as tax collector; Howard as bill collector; both frequently changing jobs.<br /><br />- Cerebus as hermaphrodite; Howard called a duck, instead of the proper male "drake"; quacking in ducks is mostly a female trait, but Howard quacks;<br /><br />- Man-thing guest appearance; Sumthing;<br /><br />- Both end with (preposterous) explanations of how the universe works; one lighthearted, one serious.<br /><br />This one is a slight cheat, but Gerber parodied John Byrne in Destroyer Duck; Sim parodies McFarlane, Chris Claremont, et al.<br /><br />Now, I realize Dave may done a few of these things before Gerber or contemporaneously; but it's mostly Gerber first. So yeah, obviously a HUGE influence. <br /><br />-Reginald P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com