The Muppet Show

I wanted to start this thread cause I got the first issue and it looks awesome and I hope to start a cool conversation about this new series.

I *adore* the Muppets - and I did not even know this was happening!
Hopefully they have it at Newbury Comics!

<< breaks open piggy bank >>

Speaking of Muppets, I did this thing a while back as a goof for my buddies at work - but this seems like the perfect place to share it again...

ENJOY!

The Muppets: Where Are They Now? (A VH-1 special)

After the Muppet Show was cancelled, Miss Piggy moved to Las Vegas and became a coctail waitress around the slot machines in the Golden Nugget Casino.

Kermit's career thinned out. He found it hard to find good acting jobs because he had become type-cast as a short theater manager in children's films. His last acting jobs involved bit-parts as a backgroung extra on the set of Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" tv series.

Robin was, yet another unfortunate, child star. He was unable to find acting jobs in adult roles. Type-casting again. After a few failed business ventures with Dana Plato and Emmanuel Lewis, Robin returned to his childhood swamp and lives out his life in a natural Froggy way (catching flies and playing the banjo).

Professor Bunsen Honeydew works at The Hair Club for Men.

Beaker went on to win the Nobel Prize for inventing a new form of semen-repelling bedsheets for use in cheap motels. He also created the Clapper (a device that is plugged into the wall and electrical appliances are plugged into it, so you can activate/deactivate them with a 'clap') and the Medical Alert Necklace ("I've fallen and I can't get up.")

Fozzie Bear is now a writer on the Connan O'Brien show. He also does the voice of Triumph, the insult dog comic.

Sweetums is a farm owner in Germany now. He raises cattle. His herd was spared the Hoof-in-mouth disease. It's an honest profession; no need to laugh.

Animal was "allegedly" shot outside a New York dance club by one of Puff Daddy's bodyguards.
He's suing.

Doctor Teeth, Floyd, Janet, and Zoot did play as "The Electric Mayhem" in a Dance Club in New York until recently when their drummer, Animal, was allegedly shot by Puff Daddy's bodyguard. They will do more gigs after the court battle.

Scooter went back to college and became a lawyer. He now wears cooler and more chic tinted glasses.

Lou Zealand, the boomerang fish thrower, is a bartender in the Bahamas.

The Swedish Chef is executive producer of Emmerill Live on the Food Network. He has also patented some TV dinner recipies with Swanson. I know 'em all.

The Bald Eagle, Sam, works for the Department of the Treasury.

The Phantom of the Muppet Show works in a Goth store on Newbury Street in Boston.

Lloyd the Janitor runs the theater where the Muppet show used to perform. Burlesque shows are performed there now. No animals.

Rowlph, the piano playing dog, now writes movie theme music with John Williams. He also plays backup piano on Elton John's records.

Gonzo the Great: he thinks he's Tarzan. He had a major head trauma trying to perform his famous "Shot-out-of-a-cannon" trick during the Muppets' reunion show back in '95. After getting out of the hospital, he was an insane homeless person in New York. He assaulted a woman with a brick and was sent to an insane asylum.

Statler and Waldorf now reside in an old folks housing community in Florida. They mostly sit out on a bench in the park and riducule people as they pass.

"Pigs In Space" encountered a massive solar flare storm, and were catapulted into a wormhole located in a famous astronomers left nostril, dragging the rest of Ron Jeremy in there with them. The force created when they entered the gravitational pull of the hole forced the Jupiter II and The Robinson Family, as well as the Enterprise and her crew, back to Earth, where they were greeted with derisive boos delivered from a crowd who didn't think they derserved back royalties from the 30 years since their shows were a hit. Ron Jemermy now delights in servicing the crew of "Pigs in Space" - he really doesn't mind, since the lack of gravity keeps his considerable paunch from being dragged down, and he looks 20 pounds lighter. In his own words - he'd rather fuck a pig than look like one....

Well, I still think the art is atrocious and does not do Henson's creations justice, but overall I enjoyed the book. For the most part I thought Landridge did a competent job of translating the television program to the page and having it still feel like the show. Some bits did not translate well because they rely on audio, namely: anytime there is music, particularly when a character is singing a song and the Swedish Chef's gibberish. These do not work in text.

It wasn't terrible. It reminded me of the old Sesame Street magazine, and the comics they'd stick in that. But I agree that some things, like the Swedish chef and the music, simply don't translate well to the medium.

I really enjoyed this. The art threw me off a bit, but it was what I consider to be just artistic license I guess. I liked it a lot.

I love the muppet show!!!

I cannot wait for the next issue of this.

I think I'm going to pass on this series. The first issue was decent enough, but with money being as tight as it is I need to cut any books that I can live without.

Apparently, it's only four issues. Same with the Muppet Robin Hood. That makes me sad.

Read the second issue and it was pretty good. I liked how it focused on Fozzie. With only two issues left though, I probably should have waited for the eventual trade. Oh well. It's still pretty cool.

Trade waiting like always, but I can't wait to read it. I plan on using it as my kids' gateway to comics, too.

I am loving what Boom! has been doing with the Muppets. The Peter Pan story so far is fantastic.

I gotta say that these Muppet comics are amazing. I just finished reading Muppets Peter Pan and it's just amazing. I also loved the Pigs in Space one shot. Just some awesome Muppet stuff.

jaydee74 wrote:I gotta say that these Muppet comics are amazing. I just finished reading Muppets Peter Pan and it's just amazing. I also loved the Pigs in Space one shot. Just some awesome Muppet stuff.

The comic never fails to make me giggle like a small child.

Ben Akers wrote:

jaydee74 wrote:I gotta say that these Muppet comics are amazing. I just finished reading Muppets Peter Pan and it's just amazing. I also loved the Pigs in Space one shot. Just some awesome Muppet stuff.

The comic never fails to make me giggle like a small child.

Absolutely. It really does and I can go back to it a second or third time and it still manages to keep me very amused. I am loving the Muppets.