DC's The Flintstones

Anybody else kind of surprised by how good it's turning out to be?

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Steve Pugh is vastly underrated, he's been kicking ass on everything he does for years now.

I can't find a link on Sup Forums. Is there a mega/google file?

>Current comic where Steve Rogers is a fascist manipulator.
>Current comic where the Captain America is a black man dealing with, among other things, divisiveness
>"The Flintstones" is the best political book anyway

Bravo, Spencer!

Spencer writers better comedy than Russell and Steve Rogers is the best ongoing from the big 2 right now.

yes

Everything Marvel has been putting out has been trash and you goddamn know it.

Yes, it's probably my top 2 favorite book right now. Funny, creative, touching.

Anything else from him you'd recommend?

Whatever you say, Spencer.

Absolutely loving it, OP. The only bad thing is that it's going to be ending soon.

Check the win-o's. I know they've been posted.

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I'm reading it on comicextra, but it's got readcomic's watermark on it so I assume that's where it came from

Thx guys.

No, I'm not surprised. Russel's Prez was great, I was really excited when he was announced for Flintstones.

I'm not exactly sure I'm in love with how they're throwing around the word "appliance" my googles

Just one thread.

Just... one... thread...

YES BUT HAVE YOU ACTUALLY STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT THE HYPOCRYSY INHERENT TO THE UNEQUAL ECONOMIC MODEL WE HAVE SUBJECTED OURSELVES TO???????

Anyone else read Fred with John Goodman's voice? Or does everyone just hear the originals?

I think it's in the spirit of the first season. Of course the topics are different 50 years later.

Neither. He sounds like Homer to me.

Hotwire

It started that way for me probably because he played him in the movie. But now- I'm half way through- it sounds more like Jon Hamm. I think because it's such a stark departure from the cartoon in tone, but also Fred is drawn much more muscular and youthful in the comic
Is it? I grew up only watching it passively in reruns and didn't really pay that much attention. What do you think is so similar?

Just you, OP.

Dino is the house nigger...Whoa

I need to read these.

I'm more surprised it has kept being so good.

Fuck, I remember buying the 2000ad with his first (to my knowledge) work in it, the Strontium Dog Feral story, I thought his art was cool then but when he went to linework as opposed to painted stuff he got even better.

A Pup Named Scooby Doo grity reboot comic when?

There's Scooby Apocalypse, does that count?

Is tghat Gavin Mcinnnis?

Why does Shaggy look exactly like caricature of a liberal Sup Forums loves to throw around?

Because that's how they look

Oh shut up.

Because hippies are outdated.

You getting mad doesn't change the fact that it is true

I'm gonna punch you in the beef

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No, that's not the one- I meant the black and white cartoon rageface one where the dude is wearing a mask. I'd post it, but I couldn't find it.

I read him with BoJack Horseman's voice lol

jesus fucking christ what is wrong with this place?

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Too bad it's not a comic book but a soapbox to spew irrelevant hogwash.

Why are you in this thread them

>surprised
I'm happy, not surprised. If you dumb bitches had listened and read Mark Russel's Prez like you were supposed to, you'd know he's hot shit.

Irrelevant to what?

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This is why pre-nups exist.

the only issue i didn't enjoyed so far

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How the fuck does the TV work?

Wall demons.

Because Shaggy was always an annoying hippie.

Honestly a mix of both

I fucking love that cover.

He's been a stoner always, but I guess I'll give them a few point for not going the easy joke.

I-is Velma a loli in this?

That's exactly why I can't imagine taking this much care of his moustache or his looks in general. He looks like he gets high on chai latte instead of reefer.

>I-is Velma a loli in this?

a little person

To distrupt, even a little bit, your snowflake echo chamber hugbox safespace in which this blatant sewer of political bias has value.

Irrelevant to anyone with a functioning brain.

That's even better!

So not irrelevant at all but offensive to you?

this needs hyphens

>your snowflake

How ironic. Anyway, you add a lot to this board, and this thread. You're not just ineffectual trolling, but really making people think.

He looks like a complete faggot, but the writing for his character is spot on.

what's the other one just out of curiousity?

No, just petite.

Injection

It's not offensive, it's just bad. Badly written, unfunny and a heavy-handed propaganda piece leeching on people's nostalgia. You can't even think outside this faulty dichotomy of "offensive" and "acceptable".

>A-bloo-bloo, he doesn't like that regurgitated political garbage that I do
>must be trolling

I'm probably the only guy itt who agrees that the socio-political commentary is too heavy-handed, too omnipresent, and really not that interesting, but I'd say at least it can be funny.
Which is enough to make it better than what I expected and better than most of what I've read from the big 2 recently.

How is it propaganda?

>Unfunny
Appliance please

I'm surprised by the vast amount of 14 year olds that think the casual observations this book makes are SOOO DEEP and TOOO REAL 4 ME!!1 in every single fucking storytime thread.

>It's not offensive
You seemed pretty offended by it. Remember, it's taken, not given.

>Badly written, unfunny
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

>a heavy-handed propaganda piece
Propaganda for what?

>leeching on people's nostalgia
I don't see anyone in here jerking off to Flintstones nostalgia. Outside of the cast of characters, setting and the animals as tools/appliances schtick, the comic bares pretty much no resembelence to any other versions of The Flintstones.

>You can't even think outside this faulty dichotomy of "offensive" and "acceptable".
Yes I can, I just did, you must've missed it.

They're not 14, just cape readers.
Of course the Flintstones and Prez look deep by comparison to Champions.

Why are you so bored by it?

If it espouses political views he agrees with, it's truth.

If it espouses political views he doesn't agree with, it's propaganda.

"Propaganda" is to the right what "offensive" is to the left.

>The entire issue was setting up this one joke

I love this goddamn comic so much.

So any piece of social satire is guaranteed propaganda that cannot be enjoyed at all?

He didn't say he was.

In his mind, yes.

Mr. Slate, how did you get internet access?

Scooby Doo Mystery Inc got really weirdly gritty at times, including Fred going through one of the saddest character arcs I've ever seen in a cartoon with his parents
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"Propaganda" is not a charged term, you nitwit. Same with "regime", only media and political activists think they are. Most people suffer from confirmation bias and they will eagerly accept the propaganda of their choosing. The author here uses thinly veiled methaphors to push his views on the reader. It is objectively propaganda, whether one agrees with it or not.

>Propaganda for what?
Authors boring liberal bullshit.

>I don't see anyone in here jerking off to Flintstones nostalgia.
Using an established franchise to push your views on people, like that's not piggybacking on nostalgia for a fairly innocent cartoon.

>You seemed pretty offended by it. Remember, it's taken, not given.
Liberals! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos

I missed someone off just for reading Flintstones

That's a new one for me

Settle down user just cause you don't like it doesn't mean you have to get on your soap box and tell everyone that you don't like it

lets ignore the troll

*Pissed

bloody auto

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Propaganda isn't just "pushing views" on people for the sake of them agreeing with you, though, it's
>information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
so who's the message of the book supposed to help/harm exactly?

That's also not what a metaphor is.

There's fuck-all nostalgia for the Flintstones on Sup Forums, the cartoon is basically underrated around here because people only remember it as time-filler for late 90s CN.

And before you get angry, I'm the guy who agrees the commentary in this isn't good.

>"Propaganda" is not a charged term
Well words mean things, you stupid bastard. You conflate an author putting their own opinions into something they're writing with some sort of agenda. That's not the fucking case.

Mark Russel isn't pushing anything, he's telling us his thoughts and feelings. You can disagree with him, but if you think that he's doing so for ulterior motives, you're a fucking philistine.

Why not use this definition:
>ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect

Or this one:
>information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions:

The author has a clearly leftist-liberal view of the world and uses metaphors and/or analogies as means to present them. It's like saying that Germans using the images of cockroaches and rats to metaphorically depict Jews wasn't propaganda.

>There's fuck-all nostalgia for the Flintstones on Sup Forums, the cartoon is basically underrated around here because people only remember it as time-filler for late 90s CN.

Still a recognisable brand that's remembered rather innocently and fondly.

>he's preaching his views
>maybe shits on a franchise
>but he ain't pushin' nuthin'
>nossuh

That's not his autobiography, son. It's his soapbox and a tube and using Flinstones for political shit is fucking vile.

The difference being that the German government was a political entity whose only interest in art was as a means to control. Mark Russel is one man.

The Germans goal was propaganda, Mark Russel just wants to speak his mind and is unconcerned with winning hearts and minds.

>using Flinstones for political shit is fucking vile
You're a fucking idiot, your whole thing ITT is childish and pretentious. The Flintstones always riffed on social/politcal commentary and gender roles, and anyway media changes. You're boring.

How is he shitting on it? Has he been somehow unfaithful or contradictory to the source material? Or is it just wrong to use it to discuss politics and social issues? Even if it makes sense within the context of the setting and characters themselves?

>surprised
Not at all, since Russell wrote Prez.

If by the best, you mean decompressed as Fuck and middle of the road.

Jeff Lemire's Animal Man had him as a rotating artist.

So, private entities before 1933 using such imagery, like Der Sturmer which started it's run ten years prior, wanted to only speak their mind and were unconcerned with winning hearts and minds? Sure. Or maybe using a medium to further your political views is, gasp, propagandising.

There are reruns constantly in our morning programme that I sometimes watch before work. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Or you're just a liberal arts student thinking depiction of suburban life is a social/political commentary on gender roles. Which would only prove my point.

>Has he been somehow unfaithful or contradictory to the source material?
Not him but Fred in this comic is nothing like cartoon Fred.

Well, you've got me there, but if that's the only example, my point still stands.

Where has he been in tune with the source material? Apart from the dinosaur appliances?