Here's your Marsupilami, bro.
Here's your Marsupilami, bro
Julian Wright
Cooper Campbell
WHY
Owen Martinez
>LA BÊTE
>Port of Antwerp, Belgium, the 1950s. A freighter finally arrives at its destination after suffering something of a mishap. The crew members are shaken, but fine. Unfortunately the cargo has suffered from prolonged exposure to incredibly high temperatures: virtually all of the exotic animals have perished. Among the sole survivors is a strange animal captured by the Chahutas Indians: a kind of yellow primate with black polka-dots and a disproportionate tail. This savage and dangerous animal soon rids itself of its jailers and escapes to Brussels where he will be taken in by François, a wildlife-loving child whose classmates harass him because of his mother's illicit love life during WWII (which is still fresh in people's minds). This is the true story of the Marsupilami!
What in the actual fuck?
Joshua Morris
What the hell is this?
Jack Phillips
i don't really find anything unsettling about the route changing with morphing a cute cartoon in a beast
European comics taught me the harsh reality of that
Jayden Hughes
That's gonna be a kino from me
Leo Nguyen
Freaky
Owen Thomas
>Not inspired by prehistoric South American Marsupials
Jace Ortiz
Evan Brooks
Brandon King
Nathaniel Morris
Bentley Powell
Caleb Powell
Adrian Ortiz
Josiah Taylor
Zachary Thomas
Jackson Lee
Samuel Ortiz
Anthony Ramirez
Logan Miller
Nathan Allen
Christian Sullivan
Cooper Hernandez
?
Jayden Allen
Chase Allen
Justin Morgan
These alt-Spirou and Fantismo comics can be fun
Angel Morgan
HOOBAH HOOBAH
Jayden Howard
Having not read Marsupilami since I was like 6 or 7, this thing threw me for a loop.
Colton Cox
Wtf?
Is this what capeshit does to euro comics?
David Allen
>WHY
TL;DR answer is they paid a lot for that character and now they have to do something with it or someone's gonna get fired.
Longer answer:
The Marsupilami's originally a secondary character, the pet of the protagonists during Spirou & Fantasio's third run. S&F is a franco-belgian comic, hugely influential in the 20th century. S&F were the rare case (in europe) of a publisher-owned character rather than author-owned. Its golden age started with the third runner, Franquin, who created a number of essential secondary characters. When Franquin ultimately left, he left with the rights to his other comic, Gaston Lagaffe (which happens in a (sort of) shared universe with Spirou) but also the super emblematic marsupilami, his one original spirou creation on which he'd managed to retain the rights.
Franquin later discovered the Marsupilami is kinda worthless by itself. It was designed as a pet, comic relief, plot device and deus ex machina but as a character it's a mute brute so a lot of effort had to be spent creating human character it could play along with and none of them are as good as S&F. Still, on its name alone, under the newly founded Marsu Productions, it got a line of comics, cartoons and a movie. If you live outside of europe, you likely know the character from the cartoons.
The big problem was that Dupuis (the Spirou publisher) still retained the rights to all the Spirou stories in which the Marsupilami appears, but whenever they'd want to republish them or reference the character in new stories Marsu Prod would throw a hissy fit, so it had to be scrubbed from covers and stuff like that.
So eventually, a couple years ago, they bought Marsu productions so they'd have full rights to Franquin's body of work, at no small expense. Now they can republish all the old stuff with whichever cover, but on top of that they can bring back the classic Marsu, right? Except they did, and it was shit. What a twist!
Hudson Watson
Why are Americans such juvenile drama queens?
It's just an author having fun telling a story with a known character "his way". It's not even new, they did that a lot with spirou and lucky luke. You are basically admitting being secondaries that don't read anything but the reactions on youtube and behaving accordingly, thinking those paid actors reactions are normal.
Nolan Cook
Fuck off nigger, you don't read comics.
Isaiah Sullivan
I wonder when they'll do a edgy reboot of Gaston as a water down Mr Robot.