Wednesday, December 18, 2024

"Loan."

In the 70's, Conan the Barbarian (and to a lesser extent, Red Sonja) were licensed by Marvel but were de facto Marvel characters: they appeared in a lot of ads and promo stuff. Although, I don't think either ever got a Hostess ad? Later, with the exception of Transformers #3, licensed hits like Transformers and G.I. Joe were siloed off from the main Marvel Universe. So was Alf, although it had a lot of parodies, like the X-Melmen. Really seems like there should've been a Hostess parody in there somewhere, too.
Posted by googum at 5:00 AM
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7 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

And Alf & Howard as two characters I don’t think that ever met in the comics (officially) but probably could’ve/should’ve.

7:22 AM
H said...

Alf actually was a part of Evolutionary War- got a tie-in annual with an appearance by the High Evolutionary and everything. Granted it was a just a two page backup and a cameo in another strip but it still counts.

There was a Hostess parody in Marvel Team Up but I don’t think Alf ever had one- several Conan parodies (speaking of Conan) but no Hostess.

What I’m trying to say I guess is that I have a near complete run of Alf comics.

2:23 PM
CalvinPitt said...

Remember Alf? He's back, in blog form! I think I had two issues of his comic. One where he's turned into a floating flatscreen TV, the other where he gets the family to play the Melmac version of D&D (complete with the mom playing a lady warrior named Red Bologna.)

Now I'm trying to decide whether Alf or Howard is going to take care of D'Spayre. Alf, by annoying him with endless puns, Howard by, ummmmm, an existential rant about how much he hates living on this planet of idiot hairless apes until D'Spayre is so depressed he flees?

Or everybody's going to drink until they're too happy for D'Spayre to hang around, or C'hod's got a drink that dispels malevolent spirits or alternate reality counterparts (There was a Munden's Bar back-up in GrimJack that did that once.)

3:37 PM
googum said...

I generally maybe have an end in mind, but still plot just ahead of the chains? (That's either a football reference, or Jacob Marley; I'm never sure.) That said, there's one character we've seen here more than once that would be completely resistant to and able to see D'spayre! They may or may not save the day at some point. (Not Deadpool; who I still have as Venompool, partly because I think it's funny.)

I know I watched Alf when it was on, but only one joke stuck with me. Seems like it should be the easiest thing in the world to reboot, but I suppose you might have to update some things that jerks would still complain about. I don't know if you could still have him hankering for cats...

6:42 PM
H said...

Yeah, I didn’t think you were going for ‘Pool realistically. The main reason I keep bringing him up is because I’m working under the assumption you need a soul to have D’Spayre, and a having half a soul puts him in a unique position. Plus (and I just noticed this), I don’t see any D’Spayre there (or Sleepwalker for that matter) so maybe that’s on pause for now?

I think the main issue with rebooting ALF is that Paul Fusco is still pretty protective of that IP, and he’d probably want to change the premise too much for fans of the original.

4:58 PM
Anonymous said...

More like he’d want to keep other people from doing just that.

12:39 PM
H said...

I don’t know about that- the ALF stuff that has come out the last 20 years or so has been moving away from where it was (other than the talk show). I feel like Paul’s one of those guys who’d cash in on the latest trend if he could (in a similar way to the Smurfs or Chipmunks). Plus, it seems like most of the reboots/sequel series that have the original creators involved do that and usually don’t last long (with exceptions obviously).

3:12 PM

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