You thoughtpost - modern Flintstonesorapocalyptic future Scooby Doowas the weird affair DC could do to classic Hanna - Barbera characters ? DC cartoon strip invite you to think again .
UPDATE 02/01 5:00PM : DC Comics has now also revealed a Thomas Nelson Page from the backup Snagglepuss write up that will appear in Suicide Squad / Banana Splits Annual # 1 in March . In the tarradiddle , surprisingly , Snagglepuss will find himself in DC present the House Committee on Un - American Activities . suss out it out below :
We know a new take on the beloved pink Leo the Lion was come ever since DC annunciate a serial of Hanna - Barbera / DC superheroes mashup annualslate last yr , which included backup story based on The Jetsons , Snagglepuss , Ruff and Ready , and Top Cat — but it seems at least one of the backup stories in those yearbook will be have its own ongoing series .
Speaking in a recent interview withHiLoBrow , author Mark Russell — who currently pen the excellent Flintstones ongoing for DC — reveal that he will indeed be write a new Snagglepuss Holy Writ , one where Snagglepuss has seemingly turned his back on being on the point , instead select to write for it :
RUSSELL : It ’s Snagglepuss sort of reinvented as a queer Southern Gothic dramatist ?
HILOBROW : [ Laughs ] He is , he is ! !
RUSSELL : Yeah , it was not much of a reach at all . I envision him like a tragical Tennessee Williams image ; Huckleberry Hound is sort of a William Faulkner guy wire , they ’re in New York in the fifties , Marlon Brando shows up , Dorothy Parker , these socialites of New York from that epoch come and go . I ’m looking forward to it ; that ’s what I ’ll do after The Flintstones . [ Russell ’s contract in the gravel quarry is for 12 issue . ] I ’ll go right from that into Snagglepuss .
Russell went on to say that the novel take is pep up by retiring critical rendition of the character as queer . The serial — while not as societal - review listen as his work on flintstone — will search the gay subtext of work on Broadway in the centre of the 20th century while telling an versed taradiddle about the creative process :
Yeah , it ’s never discussed and it ’s obviously ignore in the cartoon ’cuz they were made at a time when you could n’t even acknowledge the existence of such a matter , but it ’s still so obvious ; so it ’s rude to salute it in a context where everybody knows , but it ’s still closeted . And dealing with the ethnical panorama of the 1950s , specially on Broadway , where everybody ’s mirthful , or is work with someone who ’s festive , but nobody can talk about it — and what it ’s care to have to seek to create culture out of secretiveness .
candidly , it all sounds surprisingly heavy for a Snagglepuss comic — but if you ’d tell me a post - mod , societal - offspring - minded take on The Flintstones would beone of the best comics of 2016when it was first announced , I would n’t have believed you . If Mark Russell wants to write a jovial Snagglepuss series , I ’m all in to see where he takes it .
[ HilLoBrowviaCBR ]
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