Forgotten Comics of the 1980s

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Why was Milligan so forgotten outside of X-Statix?

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I love McCarthy but his twitter rants and general shift in dated digital art effects make him a pariah for discussion these days

because he's not really that good. I do like his Shade Da Changin' Dude

dark horse kept that and other of his their works in print for a very long time

Not that forgotten when it enjoys its cult status among comic readers.
He didn't have runs on popular characters at the right moment and then started doing by the numbers work at one point.
A reprint came out like a decade ago.

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"Comics That Are Forgotten By Everyone Except a Small Cult,"

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Just kidding.

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Borris the bear was one of those quickly forgotten rags that was trying to cash in on the gritty dark feel of TMNT.

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Grips only had a few issues. It was a mid 80's flaccid attempt to cash in on Wolverine's success.

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Ninja High School got its start in the mid 80's, and went largely under the radar as Perry's Gold Digger took the spotlight for Antarctic Press. Ben Dunn was later tapped by Marvel Comics for their Mangaverse snafu.

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>Borris the bear was one of those quickly forgotten rags that was trying to cash in on the gritty dark feel of TMNT.

Have you read it? It was more like a reaction to TMNT and mutant critter comics that were popping up. I mean in the first issue Boris basically kills knockoffs of TMNT, Cerebus, Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters, and others (they show up later on so they're not really dead). Once they got through that, lots of other comics got parodied. Like there was a whole issue parodying Chaykin's Blackhawk.

Also it wasn't as quickly forgotten; Scott McCloud liked the book (he said he thought it was decent, in an 80s interview with I think Amazing Heroes) and Rob Liefeld was a fan of Boris (he even had a fan art printed in it) and in the 90s he did a comic Avengeblade which was kind of like the premise of Boris the Bear's first issue, only with bad girls instead of martial arts animals.

Had to unfollow the man as well. I could deal with trash opinions or trash art but not both. And the weird thing is that both things fly in face of what I associate with the average McCarthy reader, but I guess he has too many madmaxbux to give a shit about his comics public.

When I was living in Santa Monica working for a law office, I wrote Antarctic Press to get a comic back issue. They sent me the comic for free along with a test issue of something out of 1989's development, Dinosaurs for Hire. They wanted my opinion of it. I wrote them back with the honest truth, starting it was a TMNT coat tails grab and I didn't like it. I thought the robotic human sex androids that the dinosaurs were constantly breaking wouldn't go over too well with parents of children that might buy the comic, and the cover and interior had no warnings of adult content.

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