Comments on: SAM & MAX back to print! http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: AHR http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-231033 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:48:30 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-231033 This was the first comic I ever owned, and reamins one of my all-time favorites...I've read Surfin' The Highway more times than I could possibly put a number on, and I can still find hillarious details I never noticed. My old disintigrating copy is currently MIA (a "friend" probably boosted it from my apartment and sold it on eBay!), so I'm happy to hear I'll be able to get a new one. 2007 has truly been the year of Sam and Max, as I also recently heard there are plans to release the animated series on DVD: http://www.shoutfactory.com/community/269/thread.aspx The series could be watered down at times, but was generally hillarious. It was on Fox Kids in the mid-90s, and got away with some very dodgy and anarchic humor that stayed pretty close to the spirit of the book. Purcell himself even wrote a couple of episodes, so it's absolutely worth a look. This was the first comic I ever owned, and reamins one of my all-time favorites…I’ve read Surfin’ The Highway more times than I could possibly put a number on, and I can still find hillarious details I never noticed. My old disintigrating copy is currently MIA (a “friend” probably boosted it from my apartment and sold it on eBay!), so I’m happy to hear I’ll be able to get a new one.

2007 has truly been the year of Sam and Max, as I also recently heard there are plans to release the animated series on DVD:

http://www.shoutfactory.com/community/269/thread.aspx

The series could be watered down at times, but was generally hillarious. It was on Fox Kids in the mid-90s, and got away with some very dodgy and anarchic humor that stayed pretty close to the spirit of the book. Purcell himself even wrote a couple of episodes, so it’s absolutely worth a look.

]]> by: Dani Atkinson http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-224659 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:30:36 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-224659 YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!

]]> by: michael http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-223659 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:50:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-223659 i tried reading these when the comics first came out. they just did not click with me. i didn't like the art, and the idea seemed like nonsense. i tried reading these when the comics first came out. they just did not click with me. i didn’t like the art, and the idea seemed like nonsense.

]]> by: Alex Hart http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-222798 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:11:13 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/sam-max-back-to-print/#comment-222798 SWEET! Sam & Max is probably the greatest comic ever! Definitley the funniest. (Just narrowly beating out The Tick.) I have a copy from the first printing of Surfin' the Highway, as well as all the original comics, but I think I'm gonna have to get he new printing, too, just for the extra stuff. Steve Purcell is insane. I really respect that. SWEET! Sam & Max is probably the greatest comic ever! Definitley the funniest. (Just narrowly beating out The Tick.) I have a copy from the first printing of Surfin’ the Highway, as well as all the original comics, but I think I’m gonna have to get he new printing, too, just for the extra stuff. Steve Purcell is insane. I really respect that.

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