Comments on: The Mysterious Disappearance of Four Comic Book Characters

By: Mike5816

Mike5816 — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:59:11 +0000

Regarding Lyman on “Garfield”: It was always my suspicion that Jim Davis got rid of Lyman when he realized he had inadvertently created a gay situation. After all, there were two bachelors living together, one of whom had a big mustache (which was common among gay men in the 1970s going for that ‘clone’ look), and who had pets like children. When some angry fan wrote in complaining about it and “what about the children? The children!!!” Mr. Davis probably went “uh-oh” and phased him out since he really wasn’t a necessary character. It didn’t matter that Jon had been pursuing Liz for dates since the beginning of the strip. It was Lyman that appeared to be the “big queen”. Of course given the storyline, Mr. Davis was free to make up anything years later to cover his tracks, and he came up with the basement comment. That’s my take on it, anyway.

By: bcp

bcp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:18:11 +0000

I remember Uncle Max….maybe because that’s because I own every comic strip in book form and have read all of them more than 10 times, but that is neither here nore there.

By: MtP

MtP — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:42:24 +0000

Wasn’t Uncle Max played by Tom Hanks?

By: Geoduck

Geoduck — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:32:37 +0000

Foxtrot is now a Sunday-only strip, so a lot of stuff got jettisoned.

By: meg

meg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:18:50 +0000

Heh heh, I clearly remember Uncle Max from calvin and hobbes. I liked Watterson’s commentary on him in the 10th Anniversary book.

By: AaronA1C

AaronA1C — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:55:49 +0000

Okay, time to nitpick: Comic BOOK characters are typically either super-heroes like Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman; or they are characters like Archie, Donald Duck (in print form), and Richie Rich. Comic STRIP characters would be those listed in this article. There is a big difference, for comic BOOK characters actually get my hopes up, while I couldn’t care less about most comic STRIP characters.
There’s are exceptions to this divergence, such as the very long running Spider-Man comic strip or Beetle Bailey comic books. Typically, Comic Books and Comic Strips are as defined above.
My nits are thoroughly picked, carry on.

By: Drewbacca

Drewbacca — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:54:56 +0000

Oops…that wasn’t meant to be a question…

By: Drewbacca

Drewbacca — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:54:15 +0000

When Norman’s buddy Neil from Drabble disappeared I thought the strip went downhill from there?

By: felixthecat

felixthecat — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:00:33 +0000

And don’t forget this Garfield variation:

http://blog.org.es/realfield/

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:57:09 +0000

Uncle Max was only around for a week? I remember him clearly (the character, if not those particular strips), and I didn’t think I was that much of a Calvin and Hobbes fanatic.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:24:58 +0000

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

By: andrew-lynch

andrew-lynch — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:50:40 +0000

http://www.cagle.com/hogan/webextras13/charlotte/home.html

By: atomicsecrets

atomicsecrets — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:27:21 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know Denise disappeared. It has been that long since I’ve regularly read the comics?

By: Zecc

Zecc — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:48:21 +0000

>> http://www.cagle.com/hogan/webextras13/charlotte/home.html%3Cbr%20/%3E

I prefer my links without HTML tags, thank you.