Comments on: Thoughts on Farty the Clown

By: yo go re

yo go re — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:33:34 +0000

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

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:34:51 +0000

But you're BANG ON about Apadaca.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:34:06 +0000

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.

By: Jono11

Jono11 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:42:00 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:21:30 +0000

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

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:42:35 +0000

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

By: Mauro

Mauro — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:29:16 +0000

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.

By: Mr. Pete

Mr. Pete — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:59:07 +0000

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.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:40:01 +0000

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....

By: joecab

joecab — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:38:28 +0000

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

By: Thenodrin

Thenodrin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:27:30 +0000

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

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:28:49 +0000

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.

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:11:21 +0000

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?

~P~
PTOR

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:25:48 +0000

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

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:11:12 +0000

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

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:18:04 +0000

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

By: entzauberung

entzauberung — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:03:04 +0000

But this really is about Sinister, right?

By: dantecat

dantecat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:04:32 +0000

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.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:07:19 +0000

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.

By: buttler

buttler — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:46:56 +0000

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