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Is this more commentary on Green Lantern: Rebirth?

Sounds like Mr. Sinister.

See also: Bat-Mite, or the current DC/Wildstorm series. Or, you know, don't.

How dare you make light of Farty the Clown! I plan on whining ceaselessly until blog until Farty the Clown is treated with the deadly seriousness to which he, as a fictional character, is entitled!

In the hands of Grant Morrison, Farty the Clown may seem important, and scary, but he's really just a waste of time and energy in both the reading and research you have to go through to figure out why Farty the Clown is important.

In the hands of Geoff Johns, Farty the Clown will get his history rebooted and will wind up being someone the reader wants to care about, but still kinda won't.

In the hands of Mike Carey, Farty the Clown is now a woman.

In the hands of Mark Millar, Farty the Clown would be in a hospital trying to get cured of his flatulence and heavy makeup, but will wind up destroying the hospital with a mega fart, which will then lead to a war of some kind.

In the hands of Keith Giffen, though, Farty the Clown makes sense.

But in the end, Farty the Clown is still a stupid villain.

But there's this Peter Milligan mini and...

oh nevermind

I have to wonder what prompted this.

Oh, and in the hands of Kurt Busiek, Farty the Clown will be a touching and poignant examination of alienation and heartbreak in modern society, and you will weep like a baby at the final page.

Yeah, but what if Farty the Clown got rid of other equally lame-ass characters like "One-Off of a Previous-Villain-thing" by throwing them into the sun.

That would be kinda cool, right?

Especially, if he used the flames from the sun to light a mega-ton Fart.

That'd be like a million exploding suns.
What an awesome power THAT would be, huh?

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In the hands of Dan Clowes, Farty the Clown is a representation of arrested development in a short story about a loser who thinks his obsession with this old character justifies his pathetic existence, all the while being oblivious to how pathetic he is. It is made into an ill-advised movie because comix are hip. (but not really)

Bendis has totally ruined the character of Farty the Clown forever and raped my childhood.

Bendis has totally ruined the character of Farty the Clown forever and raped my childhood.
Yeah, well, your childhood dresses provocatively.

Is this more commentary on Green Lantern: Rebirth?
Sounds like Flex Mentallo to me.

Yeah, well, your childhood dresses provocatively.

What, so that childhood was ASKING for it? Is that what you're saying? Pig.

Ah..ever since Farty the Clown made a deal with Mephisto he hasnt been the same

The problem is that so many people have misunderstood Farty's smile at the end of the original series.

In the hands of Garth Ennis, Farty the Clown is a heavily armed 'Nam vet who lets loose a blast of gas from his ass in to the faces of super heroes (who are all stupid and deserve it, of course). Oh, and there will be some anal sex and/or incest somewhere in there too.

In the hands of Alan Moore, no one is safe in the company of Farty the Clown, because the beloved and iconic comic book superheroes of your childhood have been living a lie, and he sees through the pretenses that shelter their denial. His death ushers in Utopia.

OOOOOOOO!!!! Do Judd Winnick next!!!!!

In the hands of Alan Moore, no one is safe in the company of Farty the Clown, because the beloved and iconic comic book superheroes of your childhood have been living a lie, and he sees through the pretenses that shelter their denial. His death ushers in Utopia.

And has sex with Alice in Wonderland. Or Maid Marion. Or maybe both.

OOOOOOOO!!!! Do Judd Winnick next!!!!!

That's too easy. It involves something socially conscious, but at least 10 years too late to be considered groundbreaking. So perhaps Farty's young daughter gets kidnapped to reveal to uninformed comic fans the dangers of child abduction.

Wait, Winick already did that one? Well, that's okay. He's cool with repeating concepts.

OOOOOOOO!!!! Do Judd Winnick next!!!!!

That’s too easy. It involves something socially conscious, but at least 10 years too late to be considered groundbreaking. So perhaps Farty’s young daughter gets kidnapped to reveal to uninformed comic fans the dangers of child abduction.

Wait, Winick already did that one? Well, that’s okay. He’s cool with repeating concepts

Thanks, Mck!!!!

Anyone wanna give Mark Waid or Frank Miller a go?

Jeff Smith's version of Farty the Clown will be decent and readable, but not quite as good as his work on Bone would have led you to expect. And Farty will be a separate person instead of just the little kid turning into the villain.

Then Mike Kunkel will do Farty the Clown, but I'll wait for a collection to read it all at once...

In Frank Miller's hands, Farty the Clown obsesses over whether or not to eat that Tums. He thinks about chewing it, sucking on it, crushing it and snorting it off the naked body of a dead hooker. Considering all of the possible variations keeps him up at night. He farts. I knew he didn't have the nerve.

Geez, Farty is really overexposed
Thats so not cool

At least they haven't stopped to Miss Farty The Clown.

I wish I knew what this was an allusion to.

What would Peter David do to FtC (besides fill it with Star Trek references)?

Waid drops most of the previously established supporting cast in order to bring in every other flatulence-themed character the company owns (more than you might think, thanks to some REALLY obscure Golden Agers), then reveals they all get their power from the same source (it won't be called Beanworld, because of copyright and trakemark law, but totally should be) Meanwhile, Love Conquers All becomes the climax for nearly every multi-part story. The stories are generally fun, and infinitely better than the team that immediately follows him after he gets fired by editorial, then un-fired, then leaves of his own free will.

In the hands of Warren Ellis Farty The Clown is a tech savvy protagonist in dystopian future who uses his farts to expose a government conspiracy about finely perfumed gasses with which they try to control the masses.

In the hands of BKV, Farty the Clown will be the only "farting clown" in the world, and each issue will reveal how bad experiences with woman, his parents, and the government made him the "farting clown" he is today.

In the hands of Joss Whedon, Farty the Clown would be... I don't know, the last issue was three months ago!

In Stan Lee's hands, Farty the Clown can fart or be with his girlfriend, but not both. Farty's girlfriend is frickin' sweet and beautiful. You'd have to be crazy to choose contaminating the air over a love that heals all wounds. But when the world calls for Farty, fart he does. And so with great flatulence comes great responsibility,

In Steve Ditko's hands, Farty the Clown emerges from a corrupt world where people blur the lines between farting and evil. Farting is farting, and evil is evil.

In Will Eisner's hands, Farty asks God where are his farts? Is Farty not lactose intolerant? Is a quart of milk a day not enough? 2 quarts? Farty dies... but his schemes of farting do not die with him.

In Jack Kirby's hands, Farty the Clown is trapped in a future intolerant of farts. The piercings with which our young now demonstrate their freedom have evolved into Dickchenium rods implanted into everyone's ass-cheeks, with which all farts are clamped shut. Only Farty can save the future.

In Rob Liefeld's hands, there would be six issues of X-treme Farty to the Max scheduled...and one shows up three months late....along with a solicitaion for the first six issues of the Vomit-Burp Kid!

In Sergio Aragones's hands, a king needs his exact-Hindenberg-copy zeppelin moved to his castle overlooking the certified-dormant inactive volcano. And how convenient is it that Farty the Clown should be available to pilot it?

Stan's recent "Farty Reimagined" and "The last Farty story" were a bit lame. But we buy them anyway because, well, it's Stan! But some people say that Stan never even invented Farty in the first place. He just wanted to copy DC's success with the Joker, then Kirby walked in with the picture of a Joe Simon creation called The Silver Fart.

Steve Englehart's Farty showed real promise, especially after Farty finally solved his wind problem. Everyone agrees that was long overdue. But his editor forced him to reverse all the changes and we don't talk about those later issues. Especially the ones with Mantis.

And didn't Lein Win once kill off all the alternative reality Fartys in that miniseries? Except now there are more alternative Fartys than ever.

In Dave Sim's hands, Jaka seduces Farty into marrying her in a pagan ceremony at a Ren-faire on the outskirts of San Francisco. 400 pages in, that girly-sneeze Farty found so charming at first dislodges the pin from Farty's hand-grenade, which further ignites one of Farty's "episodes." That's how you killed Farty's dad, Jaka. Go back to your gilded prison.

In Fred Hembeck's hands, Farty's farts would have been depicted as gaseous clouds with those cool kneecap swirls in them.

I'm not sure exactly what Peter David would do to Farty the Clown -- besides have him grow a beard -- but I do know that after David leaves after a lengthy run fans will say that it was so much more fun and enjoyable when he was the writer. People just don't write fun comics like David anymore.

Okay, so now Wizard announces that Farty will be moving to the big screen. Who's directing, and who are the leading candidates for the title role.
And, most importantly, does his revamped, black-rubber-assless clown armor have nipples?

Frederick Wertham condemned Farty the Clown's relationship with his young sidekick, The Pooperscooper, in the 50's. Seduction of the innocent, indeed.

Chuck Dixon surrounded Farty the Clown with a new and really interesting supporting cast, most of which were expert martial artists. It wasn't the best run in Farty history, but nobody can really say a bad word about it.

And why I don't have any news on "Farty the Movie" (that Wizard article is like SO outdated, I had the info it was optioned like a month ago!), I really hope they steer it away from the style of the 60s Farty TV series. You know, the one that had all those celebrities as guest villains and all the flatulence was punctuated with those silly title cards. It all came off rather silly.

But at least it was better than the 70s cartoon, "Challenge of the FartyFriends." Anyone else remember, "Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Flatulence!"

Jim Shooter killed off the original Farty the Clown and replaced him with his own version.

Man, anyone else remember when they Had Rob Liefeld revamp Farty? All those pockets and belts and shoulder pads? Oh, the 90's were fun.

I still can't get over Keanu Reeves as Farty. That movie SUCKED.

Gail Simone would have Farty the Clown tagging along after the Secret Six, insisting that he was just as much a badass as the rest of them despite the fact that he keeps ruining undercover operations by being a flatulent man in clown makeup.

After they abandon him, he would cross paths with Wonder Woman, who assures him he can get help for his condition or maybe even use his powers to help people, and he goes away a reformed man determined to study gastrointestinal disorders.

That John Ostrander revamp was brilliant, though. Finally made him seem like a real and interesting person.

I didn't so much like when Geoff Johns retconned in dead Silver Age parents who could be brought back to life, thereby making him a legacy character.

In the hands of BKV, Farty the Clown will be the only “farting clown” in the world, and each issue will reveal how bad experiences with woman, his parents, and the government made him the “farting clown” he is today.

You forgot to add that by the end of the series, he will be Farty the Clown in name only because his journey profoundly changed him.

frank cho's farty has a surprising amount of butt shots of everyone BUT farty.

"I still can’t get over Keanu Reeves as Farty. That movie SUCKED."

Wan't ALL Reeves fault. Most of the screen time was given to the villians. Farty was an ancillary character in his own movie.

For the record, I really dug as Jude Law as The Match (despite the fact that many a fanboy went berserk when they heard he of his casting), but Anthony Hopkins as Immodius came off a BIT hammy.

Howard Chaykin's Farty was a chisel-jawed rogue (with a striking resemblance to Ruben Flagg) who slept his way through a seemingly endless succession of snarling, backstabbing but discreetly pooting dames in push-up teddies.

Also, it was kind of derivative of Miller's Farty: Die, Clown, Die, which ended in one of the most critically acclaimed cliffhangers in comics:

"Not. Manly. Enough.
Must. Teabag. A shark."

Sheer brilliance.

"Comic book reference that relies heavily on jokes that have been made a thousand times before."

HA! I'M SO CLEVER!

Aaaaand then there are the people who just get off on being dicks.

Without a doubt, the Timm produced, Farty: The Animated series has been the best interpretation of the character. The way the wrote the villain Mr. Beanz was tragic.

In Bob Haney's hands, Farty is a disgruntled employee at a novelty toy factory who gains strange powers in a tragic Whoopee Cushion-making machine accident. He is defeated by a team-up of Batman, Jim Aparo, and a version of Plastic Man that rides a motorcycle and helps disadvantaged kids.

But this really is about Sinister, right?

The South Park cross-over with Farty's duel against Terrance and Phillip was fun, but predictable.

Not content with his first Farty revamp Frank Miller then brings us the Godammed Farty the Clown who doesn't give a shit

btw best lmao series of posts in ages thank you one and all

Come to think of it Im surprised no ones mentioned Darwyn Cookes brilliant reinterpretation hearkening back to a less complicated simpler purer Farty the clown although the giant floating turd disguised as an island was a bit much

But seriously if any of this frivolity is a swipe at DC's Dreamwar crossover it so deserves it. Worst comic Ive ever read major disservice to all and sundry characters

Farty the Clown must soon face his arch nemesis:
The BLUE-BALLED MARBLE...

a hero who was a part of the Marble Universe back in it's origins, but was forced to give up his heroic identity by a time-traveling President Warren G. Harding, because Blue-Balled Marble was a man who didn't scowl, and .Harding was trying to spread a feeling of acceptance for what he (and C. Montomery Burns) would dub; "Glower Power".

Blue-Balled Marble dutifully stepped down, but will now rise again to fight one of his old foes (Presumably Farty the Clown) and will have the rest of the Marble Universe characters back him up and say things on panel to lead readers to believe that he wasn't a newly introduced character created by a 5 year old.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17398

Hey. Where'd that link come from?

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PTOR

In the hands of James Robinson Farty would be an old man wanting his sons to carry on his farting legacy. After the son who accepted the role of Farty the Clown is shot in the first issue the story becomes an often poignant examination of father/son relationships when the other son is forced into a role he never wanted in order to save his city. Other Farty's who took on the role in between the father and the son would also appear.

Peter David would return Farty to his roots, as the villianous imaginary friend of a child. But, would eventually reveal that Farty is the imaginary friend of all children at once. Just that some ignore him, some embrase him, and some have the mutant power to give him corporeal form.

Eventually, the heroes will have to arrange a mass uni-mind of all children on Earth through the use of bad puns and Star Trek references that will serve to collectively power a banishment of Farty forever.

Or, until another writer or editor wants to use him, in which case all of this will be ignored by the revamp.

Theno

Wasn't his name revealed to actually be Mopee rather than Farty?

The Dark Farty Returns was too pessimistic for me, too grim...

The whole colostomy sequence was gratuitous and an insult to prostrate patients everywhere.
The scratch 'n sniff cover was almost literally death to my local comics dealer....

I truly loved the silver-age Gardner Fox gem where Farty, while performing at a strip-mall opening, is fired from an ass-shaped cannon at such a velocity that he breaks through a dimentional barrier between his "earth" and a parrellel one where he meets the original Farty The Clown, whom our Farty believed only to have existed in a nursery rhyme about virtues of proper wiping procedures, and was his early childhood inspiriation.
Together, the Farty's of two worlds team up to defeat the golden age Fiber Baron, and each year, their annual team-up was eagerly awaited by fanboy's everywhere.
It was truly a simpler time.

In the hands of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger, Farty the Clown is an older and bitter version of his former self, will have a lot of back lighting, and will feel like yet another attempt to be the next Kingdom Come.

In the hands of Neil Gaiman Farty the clown would be reimagined as the archetypal clown and king of farts with a hugo award winning series tying into mythical and cultural roots of farts and introducing his wider family of archetypal stomach upsets including his hot sister belch

Let me rephrase my Farty in the hands of Alan Moore: Farty the Clown Corps.

In the hands of Ed Brubaker, Farty the Clown is betrayed by the woman he gave up everything for, since she was always a dirty con artist. But at the end she redeems herself by helping him fart her mob-boss boyfriend to death, before taking her own life.

In the hands of Ty Templeton, Farty is a heavy-handed, ham-fisted satire of modern American conservatism, with farts being thinly veiled allegories to American conflicts in the Middle East.

In the hands of Tony Bedard, all the questions and plot holes left behind by Winick's run are answered and tied up, but it's just not that satisfactory. But no one really blames Bedard, because what else could he really have done with what Winick left for him?

In the hands of Dave Sim, Farty foes on a ten-issue rant about how much feminists suck and about how women should stay in the kitchen.

In the hands of Joe Quesada, Farty stops farting because Joe Q's dad died of butt-cancer and now Joe Q thinks he has to do right by all the kids reading his comics, even though kids haven't been reading comics for at least 12 years. But he still has to protect these innocent young minds from dangerous pro-fart messages and influences, so their mental capacities are freed up to take in all the gratuitous violence and oversexualized women.

And in the hands of Apodaca, nothing is fun.

Oh, please, Jono. Farty has been dead for two whole days and now you yank him up from oblivion one more time for yet another series of new directions.
He's an icon of the sixties who should have been left alone long ago.
I think Jack Kirby would tell us all to go out and create our own Farty the Clowns. Let this one stay dead. After all he's ben through, let him rest in peace.
Farty, we hardly knew ye, yadda yadda etc.

But you're BANG ON about Apadaca.

DC had someone else redraw Kirby's Farty because he made the face too handsome...