Chomper ([info]chomper99) wrote,
2008-02-12 13:52:00

Gerber gone

This won't mean much to anyone who does not grok comics but Steve Gerber died on Sunday aged 60.

He was the writer who created Howard the Duck in the 1970s, a comic which was years ahead of its time (try to forget that awful film). But I'll remember him most for his swamp monster character Man-Thing. I still marvel at how he could get so much emotional vibrancy and depth into stories about a shambling central character who couldn't talk and could barely think.

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[info]caddyman

February 12 2008, 14:42:20 UTC 4 years ago

Howard the Duck and Dr Bong had one of the finest exchanges in all of literature (I paraphrase):

H: "What are all those computers and controls for?"

DrB: "They are there primarily to intimidate superficial intellects."

[info]jadeent

February 13 2008, 13:29:49 UTC 4 years ago

A great tragedy for comic readers of our generation. I read somewhere recently that he was very ill so his death doesn't come as a shock. A great shame though. I was a big Steve Gerber fan back in my youth - Howard the Duck, Omega the Unknown, his run on the Defenders, all favourites of mine.

RIP Mr Gerber.

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May 31 2008, 12:14:32 UTC 3 years ago

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