tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post7982922627530808644..comments2024-03-28T21:17:45.398-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Christopher Woerner's Canada Conspiracy TheoryA Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-42460789623301923662016-11-11T12:49:10.873-06:002016-11-11T12:49:10.873-06:00The "Niagara Falls" routine was around s...The "Niagara Falls" routine was around since Vaudeville and the Three Stooges were only one of many acts to use it. Abbot and Costello did it in a movie the same year the Stooges did it, for what it's worth. BOPalexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00307477049415910415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-67768598431750018002016-04-09T03:45:17.495-05:002016-04-09T03:45:17.495-05:00"Niagara Falls" was a joke Mark Evanier ..."Niagara Falls" was a joke Mark Evanier started running in the letter columns where he did his own version of the Three Stooges routine, re-written for, you know, a comic book letter column.ChrisWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18322950015727553689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-17717193245292276012016-04-04T20:52:26.732-05:002016-04-04T20:52:26.732-05:00As Philip K. Dick put it in his last interview, ta...As Philip K. Dick put it in his last interview, talking about how he was preparing to write his next novel, An Owl in Daylight, "I wasn't sitting around reading Howard the Duck."CerebusTVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17390062450571489309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-9102206244995061492016-04-04T02:23:24.126-05:002016-04-04T02:23:24.126-05:00Plus, Damian (and we all know how much I like to a...Plus, Damian (and we all know how much I like to agree with you), these plot synopses make Gerber sound either that he was on crack or clinically insane, or both. Or anyone else who wrote HTD back then. I've only read a few of the HTD's, as I was firmly entrenched in The X-Men, The Avengers, and Daredevil back in the late 70s (and didn't discover the Earth-pig Born until 1982). But these synopses make me want to read all of HTD just so I can say I've read the craziest shit ever.<br /><br />And that's sayin' somethin'...Jeff Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543690118315946039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-9235760038263531112016-04-03T13:47:24.630-05:002016-04-03T13:47:24.630-05:00This essay is so "inside baseball" that ...This essay is so "inside baseball" that it's actually corky. And well-timed for the resumption of regular-season baseball!Jeff Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543690118315946039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-40979234747832461952016-04-03T02:03:46.658-05:002016-04-03T02:03:46.658-05:00I've read most of the Groo that ever came out,...I've read most of the Groo that ever came out, I think, and can't recall any running joke having to do with Niagara Falls.<br />Mitch.whc03gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08304236390575971087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-49072492313758335262016-04-03T01:06:28.075-05:002016-04-03T01:06:28.075-05:00One thing I think this article demonstrates is tha...One thing I think this article demonstrates is that <i>Howard the Duck</i>, like <i>Cerebus</i>, was a product of its time, and loses some of its resonance when taken out of its context. As Gerbs told H the D in no. 16, "As far as you're concerned, it's not 'trivia', it's history."<br /><br /> -- Damian<br />Damian T. Lloyd, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15423589734839129158noreply@blogger.com