Comic book writer Judd Winick's new cartoon, "The life and times of Juniper Lee"

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Judd Winick. He introduced Stanley and his Monster back into the DC universe, (ok, so it has been canon since Foglio’s series in the 80s, but people forget.) he is a respected aids educator, (remeber MTV’s The Real World?) and I have yet to see any work of his I have not enjoyed. And I have read quite a bit.

Now, he has a cartoon on Cartoon Network, named in the title. I have a few questions. First, any fans of his here? If so, what is it about his work you like, and what specific work? Also, in the cartoon, the star defeats monsters that only she can see. The topic of monsters that may or may not be real that only the hero can see comes up a lot, from Mercedes Lackeys’ SIERRAted Edge series of books, to The Maxx, to just about every sitcom that involves magic. However, I was wondering 1) What is the psychological term for when this happens in RL? ("The vampires are out to get me? Why don’t you see them?) 2) What series include it? I seem to recall an early 90s tabletop RPG in which reality crossed over with fanasy, and the Orc you killed may or may not have been Mall security, but I can’t remember the details.

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I just saw it just now, noon on CN, but it is suppost to be on tonight, the 30th, at 7 P.M.

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48 views: Good.

Second page of the forum: Bad.

There must be other comic book fans, or people who watch cartoon network here!

Thus, I am bumping this. The last one didn’t coun’t, for it was only a minute after my first post.

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I remember reading his strip Frumpy The Clown. I liked his drawing style, although I didn’t find the cartoon terribly funny.

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Not a big fan from what I saw of him on the Real World. I read his cartoon…once.

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I cannot believe I’m the only fan of BARRY WEEN. I picked up the free comic on FREE COMICS DAY last year and got all the back-issue trades the following payday.

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Fffft.

This seems like Buffy, for kiddies, with an Asian makeover.

Didn’t even tune in.

Ween is great, though.

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Stanley and his Monster were in Kevin Smith’s run of GA, not Winnick’s.

And there are a LOT of people who are upset about how Smith used them, so if you’re a fan of Winnick’s you might want to avoid giving him that particular credit.

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I saw it. I found it pretty funny. It certainly is Buffy for children – and Winnick has said as much in interviews. But he’s also a very funny guy. This felt a lot like Barry Ween without all the swearing and sex jokes. Which were the best part of Barry Ween, but nonetheless, this was still a fun show. I’ll keep watching and hoping that Winnick finds the time to write more Barry.

–Cliffy

P.S. Everyone should go buy the Barry Ween TPB’s right now.

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My favourite work of Winick’s was his “Nuts and Bolts” comic strip in the University of Michigan student newspaper in the early 1990s. Very funny. Some of the characters reappeared in “Frumpy the Clown.”

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RackafrackarazzinfrazzinhelpedkillBlueBeetlerazzarazza…

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Have you read Barry Ween, Lou? You should – you’ll forget all about Blue Beetle. (And anyway, I think that was mostly Rucka’s idea.)

–Cliffy

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I have read a lot of his Green Lantern run and I am getting into The Outsiders. I’m definately a fan and will have to tune in now.

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I despise Barry Ween. First of all, it’s a stupid name and the character looks ridiculous. He has a style to his look that makes me think they were trying to make him look too “cool” and the effort crash landed.

What finally made me quit reading, though, was, after building the title character up as a despicable, arrogant, narcissistic little bastard a la Eric Cartman, he had Barry refer to a black guy as an “African American”. :rolleyes:

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There’s nothing in Barry Ween to suggest he’s a bastard. Arrogant, yes. Narcissistic? Well, much more self-loathing, but I can see where you’d get that. Despicable? Find me one panel. And, um, what’s :rolleyes: worthy of using the term “African-American,” except that you attempted to map your own expecations for a character onto one that didn’t exhibit the traits you pretend to find there?

–Cliffy

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Ummmm, nothing to see here folks, in regards to Cisco’s post. Move along, move along. :frowning:

Well, actually, I read every one of the 80s series, and have seen some of the original 50s run, and I loved his portrail here. Horrifing, true, but I can’t see how, given the series, how they could introduce a demon, and not have it be as such.

Also, I recall reading somewhere, that the fans of the original were just as horrified by the 80s reintroduction. ::shrug:: http://www.enjolrasworld.com/ , perhaps?

Also, I typed in “Stanley and his Monster” +winick into a search engine, and found Angel and The Ape is back. How cool is that? writers: Howard Chaykin and David Tischman, artist: Philip Bond, not Foglio. Also, you are right about Smith introducing Stanley. (Winick Nitpick: One “N”, not two. http://www.frumpy.com/)

Oh, and while I am happy this thread took off, unlike my “My Life as a Teenage Robot” thread, I would like to ask if anyone knows any answers to any of the other question in the OP. If no one does, that cool. I am glad just to have a living thread. :smiley:

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From what I can tell most of them forgot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall about that once Smith had Stanley’s grandfather being an abusive satanist, possibly with a pedophilic bent, who Thpot swallowed whole to defend/avenge Stanley.

I don’t have any real problem with it, personally - it’s a big universe…bad things happen to humourous characters, silly things happen to dark characters. I like it that way, personally. I’m sure Stanley’s a resiliant boy, and Thpot can certainly help him recover, and they can go back to having cute, humourous adventures.

I run hot and cold on Winick. I like the Outsiders (I’m…rare in that), and most of his run on GA. That is, as far as I know, all I’ve read of his.

Unfortunately, his GA run took a sharp plummet after he revealed Mia was HIV+.

Nothing to do with that, specifically (other than the first issue dealing with it being fairly ham-handed - although the second was very good), that’s just the turning point. Maybe he expended his creative juices keeping the issuesissues from being unreadably preachy (and, although I thought the first one was ham-handed it was still good, just not great), but the ones after - particularly Mia joining the Titans - just haven’t been that good.

I haven’t seen Juniper Lee, although it sounds fun.

I used to know the (or at least a) term for the phenomenon, but I’m blanking on it now.

The RPG your thinking of is probably Shadowrun. Some d20 Modern settings go with the same concept. And I couldn’t begin to come up with a comprehensive list of fiction using it. There’s just too many.

Almost anything dealing with the supernatural in modern times has most people who aren’t the main characters - and usually a few of the main characters, at first - explaining away the supernatural with some natural explaination.

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Little more care with the spoilers there, Tengu. Some of us are reading GA through the TPBs, and haven’t gotten quite that far yet.

:frowning:

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I just think it’s insulting to have a little bastard character who doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself, uses father-fellating insults on his classmates, and has no problem trying to “blow the fuckin’ head off” his best friend’s clone, to use such a pandering and politically correct term as “African American”. It tells me that the author is ok with all the other fucked up shit his character does but draws the line at the use of a barely controversial descriptive term. It shows either a great lack of balls or greatly confused ethical standards.

And, before anyone jumps to conclusions, I did NOT want him to use the “n”-word. “Black guy” is what I would’ve expected from the character (and most other people when tv cameras aren’t pointed at them.)

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Barry isn’t such a bad guy- he has gone out on a limb a couple of times to stop interdimensional rifts, “outbreak”-plague monkeys and other such hazards. He just has some empathy problems due to being much smarter then everyone else and not sleeping. When you have one of those days when your brain won’t leave you alone, you know how testy you can get after a few hours.