Tiina | February 27, 2010
What would Fat Week be without an entry about Herbie Popnecker? Pretty slim, I’d say.
If you haven’t read the Darkhorse Herbie Archives that chronicle the meger twenty or so brilliant issues of Herbie—get on it! This comic is phat! Large! A HUGE SUCCESS! Ok, I’m done.
But seriously, Herbie is absurd and surreal, with laugh-out-loud hilarious moments. [...]
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Johnathan | February 27, 2010
Hip-Happy Heroes comes to its inevitable conclusion with the tale of the proudest fatty of all: the indomitable Bouncing Boy!
Bouncing Boy, aka Chuck Taine, is a special case, as he didn’t just become fat, he started out fat and got fatter. In fact, Chuck was one of maybe ten fat guys left in the far-off [...]
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Johnathan | February 27, 2010
Hip-Happy Hero: Jimmy Olsen
It was pretty much inevitable that transformation-prone Jimmy Olsen would eventually end up as a big ‘ol tubb.
1. How’d He Get So Big?
Well, it’s like this: Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter, is visiting the lab of Professor Potter, omniscientific genius and weird situation generator for the Superman family. The professor isn’t at home, [...]
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Johnathan | February 25, 2010
Hip-Happy Hero: Superman
Ah, Big Fat Superman. I had never read the story in which he appears before looking it up for this series of writings, but I was somehow positive that he existed, somewhere, in some extremely chubby form. Big Fat Superman is my new symbol for everything that is right about comics.
A little set-up [...]
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Johnathan | February 25, 2010
Hip-Happy Hero: Fatman
Only two days into my epic, week-long Hip-Happy marathon, I cheat! Unable to discover a comic in which Batman gets real fat (not that I’m not certain there is one, mind you) I instead give Fatman!
All of my rules and fancy questions are out the window! This is a public service announcement for [...]
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