Has anybody other than I been buying Bongo's SERGIO ARAGONES FUNNIES ?
I'm up to #3 , and the LCS had #4 the last time I went .
Just as with the Simpsons stories that Sergio began doing for Bongo recently (and as outside/genre material , even more suprising there !!!) these have full-fledged comic book , color , stories , credited as fully dialoged as well as plotted by Sergio - perhaps it took him a while to become comfortable with writing in English dialogue & narration for mainstream publication . There are Sergigags as well , in gratifying larger sizes that the MAD ones now and b&w , and Sergio himself serves as a Cain/Old Witch ( !!!!!!!!! ) -style host .
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I'm buying it!
I've always loved Sergio Aragonés's work. I have a complete run of Groo the Wanderer (save for Groo's first appearance in Destroyer Duck #1, which I had but got rid of -- I didn't know what I had!).
I like seeing Aragonés write his own tales without longtime collaborator Mark Evanier -- especially his reminiscences about his boyhood, teen and college years -- although I do think the tales fall a bit flat at the end. And he is the absolute master of the silent pantomime cartoon.
I've been reading it as well, and I really like it a lot. They aren't all winners, but it is consistent enough to keep me coming back each month.
Clark is absolutely right when it comes to the silent cartoons though.