Snagglepuss is being re-imagined by DC Comics.....

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......as a Tennessee Williams-esque gay Southern playwright in the 1950s, who is brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee.


THIS IS NOT A PARODY FAKE NEWS ONION POST, PEOPLE,
THIS IS SUPER REAL AND DESERVES ITS OWN THREAD BECAUSE
LOOK AT WHAT I JUST TYPED UP THERE.


www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/31/dc-comics-recreating-snagglepuss-as-a-gay-man-brought-before-the-house-committee-on-un-american-activities/

Written by the guy who's currently writing the (socially satirical & very excellent) Flintstones comic at DC.

An 8-page preview will appear in the (wait for it) Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Annual due out in March , series will be out later in the year.

[HMARK Center]

This...is an awesome idea.

[Welfare Willis]

Jan 31, 2017 8:32:01 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

This...is an awesome idea.

I love this idea in theory, but when it was tried with Ren and Stimpy it was all kinds of awful. However, DC comics has been killing it with the Hannah Barbara properties so here's hoping.

[Chainsaw]

I love what DC's doing with the HB properties.

Also, the lead was buried in this story...Huckleberry Hound as a William Faulkner-style author...

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Jan 31, 2017 8:55:44 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

Jan 31, 2017 8:32:01 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

This...is an awesome idea.

I love this idea in theory, but when it was tried with Ren and Stimpy it was all kinds of awful. However, DC comics has been killing it with the Hannah Barbara properties so here's hoping.

Most of them anyway.

Wacky Raceland was pretty awful when I was reading it.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

I liked the dramatic Flintstones reimagining simply for how insane it was. So this might be potentially good.

[willywonka666]

I'm numb to any re imaginings anymore. Turn Yogi Bear into a Nigerien cannibalistic used car salesmen. Whatevs

[Capt Lunatic]

So, same as before but now he's a playwright?

[agent817]

I just could not resist:

[Feargus McReddit]

I read this in the annual synopsis when they came out and was down with it. Still down with it now.

I'm still shocked they're doing a mini story with Ruff and Reddy in one of them. That's like if Disney did a collection of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts in terms of obscurity.

[Rolent Tex]

Jan 31, 2017 11:22:41 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

I read this in the annual synopsis when they came out and was down with it. Still down with it now.

I'm still shocked they're doing a mini story with Ruff and Reddy in one of them. That's like if Disney did a collection of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts in terms of obscurity.

I wouldn't consider Oswald as obscure as Ruff and Reddy. He was heavily featured in the Epic Mickey game series so he has that going for him.

[Feargus McReddit]

Jan 31, 2017 11:31:12 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

Jan 31, 2017 11:22:41 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

I read this in the annual synopsis when they came out and was down with it. Still down with it now.

I'm still shocked they're doing a mini story with Ruff and Reddy in one of them. That's like if Disney did a collection of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts in terms of obscurity.

I wouldn't consider Oswald as obscure as Ruff and Reddy. He was heavily featured in the Epic Mickey game series so he has that going for him.

Well, yeah, but more like if Disney got the rights to him back and didn't have him in Epic Mickey, so to speak.

I was more referencing the first creation of creators thing but you're right too.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

I thought Huckleberry Hound was the gay one. But he couldn't tell anybody!

[Sephiroth]

Jan 31, 2017 11:34:08 GMT -5 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger said:

I thought Huckleberry Hound was the gay one. But he couldn't tell anybody!

So his darling Clementine was a dude?

[Reflecto]

Just more proof of pop culture taking away heroes.

What about the STRAIGHT giant pink cartoon lions?

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Jan 31, 2017 11:50:32 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

Just more proof of pop culture taking away heroes.

What about the STRAIGHT giant pink cartoon lions?

Will the Pink Panther suffice?

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Jan 31, 2017 10:26:19 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Jan 31, 2017 8:55:44 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

I love this idea in theory, but when it was tried with Ren and Stimpy it was all kinds of awful. However, DC comics has been killing it with the Hannah Barbara properties so here's hoping.

Most of them anyway.

Wacky Raceland was pretty awful when I was reading it.

I read the first issue and could barely get thru it. Art was drivel.

Thankfully, Garth Ennis is writing a Muttley & Dastardly mini about them as either WW1 or WW2 flying aces.

And by this I mean Muttley is a humanoid dog man.

[Reflecto]

Jan 31, 2017 12:13:29 GMT -5 Futureraven: Beelzebruv said:

Jan 31, 2017 11:50:32 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

Just more proof of pop culture taking away heroes.

What about the STRAIGHT giant pink cartoon lions?

Will the Pink Panther suffice?

Oh please. Who do you think Snagglepuss's longtime partner was?

[Rolent Tex]

Jan 31, 2017 11:33:01 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

Jan 31, 2017 11:31:12 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

I wouldn't consider Oswald as obscure as Ruff and Reddy. He was heavily featured in the Epic Mickey game series so he has that going for him.

Well, yeah, but more like if Disney got the rights to him back and didn't have him in Epic Mickey, so to speak.

I was more referencing the first creation of creators thing but you're right too.

I'm kind of shocked they haven't done more with Oswald really.

[Deleted]

Jan 31, 2017 15:49:28 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

Jan 31, 2017 11:33:01 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

Well, yeah, but more like if Disney got the rights to him back and didn't have him in Epic Mickey, so to speak.

I was more referencing the first creation of creators thing but you're right too.

I'm kind of shocked they haven't done more with Oswald really.

He has a feature in some of the Walt Disney's Comics and Stories that IDW has been publishing, but yeah virtually nothing else since Epic Mickey 2 in 2012. Very odd.

I'd figure he could appear on one of the kid shows (Mickey Clubhouse, and that new Mickey & the Roadsters show that replaced it) but even then......it wouldn't be much.

I think in the end they just really wanted the rights back to Walt's original creation.


.........or really wanted to get rid of Al Michaels.