ITT: Comic book heroes that never did anything wrong

ITT: Comic book heroes that never did anything wrong

>tfw Prunelle deserves a millionaire retirement and Gaston deserves to rot in jail for his many crimes

Bump with De Mesmaeker

You're a dirty conformist. Gaston is pure.

I'm afraid the only way to have a succesful Franquin thread on Sup Forums is to post the lewds, user. Or storytime.

Gaston was a lot to put up with but even Prunelle recognizes he isn't a bad guy.
You can tell he sometimes wishes he could be more carefree. Poor guy probably died of a heart attack at some point.

>trolling the pigs
>a crime

Pls.

Well the guy has caused tons of property damage and has even injured some people.
Fucker took down a fighter airplane.

I know the lewds.
I would only like to know If Gaston married Jeanne and got children who are as funny dangerous as Gaston.

Hell no. They never even kiss.
Gaston is a gag comic, it doesn't have much for character development, and most Fr-Bel comics aimed at kids didn't even have love interests for their characters until the 80s because of our own stupid sort of variation on a comics code (although afaik it was more informal censorship than official).

For all the fuss Sup Forums makes about French comics, we have our prudes, the main difference is that there have almost always been succesful comics aimed at adults separated from the "think of the children" crowd.

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What were those contracts even about anyway?

Who knows. De maesmaker signed a contract with Gaston for a soup recipe.

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De Mesmaker was named and resembled the father of Jidehem who did the backgrounds of Gaston and drew Sophie. People were always clowning on the man about the contracts.

Something about publishing, presumably, since this is set at Dupuis.

>look up Jidehem because I don't remember his art
>all this /o/ porn
Nice.

From Wikipedia:

De Mesmaeker's contracts

This is possibly the most frequent running gag in the series, and by Franquin's admission a MacGuffin: "Whatever's in the contracts is irrelevant. What we want to see is how Gaston will prevent them from being signed."

Aimé De Mesmaeker is a hot-tempered businessman who often visits the office (which he increasingly, and with some justification, sees as a madhouse) in order to sign some important contracts. However, the contracts are irrevocably jinxed: before De Mesmaeker can apply pen to paper, Gaston's latest gimmick comes along, provokes mayhem and causes the hapless businessman to storm out, rip the contracts up, or in some cases pass out. Even when they do get signed, Gaston can always be counted on to accidentally destroy them.

Over the years, Fantasio and Prunelle's efforts to get the iconic contracts signed become increasingly frantic and desperate. Prunelle even goes so far as to send Lagaffe to the other side of town on some wild goose chase or bound and gag him and lock him into a cupboard but even these drastic measures backfire and fail.

On two occasions, De Mesmaeker actually ended up signing other contracts with Gaston spontaneously, instead of the contracts, both merchandising deals over Gaston's inventions (the "Cosmo-clock", an Apollo spacecraft-shaped cuckoo clock,[50] and a soup recipe).

There is a gag where Prunelle shows the new Dupuis buildings, to be buildt, to Mesmeaker, before singing the contracts

I liked his bed car very much.
It was one of his better inventions.

De Mesmaeker even had a cameo in Benoit Brisefer.

Des Mesmaeker also showed up in the most recent Spirou album "La Colere du Marsupilami".
The contracts didn't get signed.

And they will never be ;_;

So, digital editions when?

>implying the scoubidou wasn't a metaphor for sex

>Hell no. They never even kiss.

Other than that time under the mistletoe and probably at other occasions. Plus the strips are full of suggestions that she's absolutely ready to jump his bone.

>Mr. De Groot
Weird coincidence.

Well sure, but it's a metaphor.

He kisses her on the cheek, true. And I guess there are a couple of dream sequences where shit is implied too iirc.

>This

Also Joseph Longtarin deserves a fucking promotion.

Some of the stuff Gaston pulls of to troll him are goddamn heinous

Poor legionaries, they just signed up to see the world.

From what I remember the only time we see Longtarin's superiors they say he should take some holidays, he's obviously stressed out.

>a boss telling you to take a vacation.
That IS fantasy.

I have to start this series someday.

I've only read 1 tome but it wasn't great.
If you really liked Léonard I guess.

well robin dubois was before leonard. Leonard is ok though. It's not genius(o the irony) buut it's a decent kid slapstick, especially in the middle (early stories are rough, latest are runing out of ideas)

Yeah I loved it as a kid but it's a bit of a rough read as an adult.