Aaron King
11-23-2008, 04:02 PM
Kind of long story. Please bear with me.
I was telling a friend how much I liked Spider-Man when I was little and she said, "Did you ever make any Spider-Man comics?" My reply was that I'd never made a comic featuring a corporately-owned character except for a minicomic I created, age 5, about Kool-Aid Man and the dinosaur that was on the purple Kool-Aid packages at the time. The villain was made of fire and said "Roast my toast!" and that's all I could remember.
I could not, for the life of me, remember the dinosaur's name, so after a little research, I found this (http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0935/comic/index.html). His name was Purplesaurus Rex, and this twelve-page comic was the obvious inspiration for my childhood foray into corporate comics. The villain ("Scorch") even utters the one piece of dialogue I remember using. However, I have no recollection of where I must've found this comic.
This is where y'all come in. Does anyone know where this comic was originally published? Marvel apparently published a six-issue Kool-Aid Man comic. Does anyone have the issues? Is this story from those? Or was it some sort of insert?
Hopefully someone can help me reconnect with this odd piece of my childhood. I'm also trying to find the original Aaron King minicomic, but it's not in my personal files and it's not with the parents. Another classic lost to time, I guess...
I was telling a friend how much I liked Spider-Man when I was little and she said, "Did you ever make any Spider-Man comics?" My reply was that I'd never made a comic featuring a corporately-owned character except for a minicomic I created, age 5, about Kool-Aid Man and the dinosaur that was on the purple Kool-Aid packages at the time. The villain was made of fire and said "Roast my toast!" and that's all I could remember.
I could not, for the life of me, remember the dinosaur's name, so after a little research, I found this (http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0935/comic/index.html). His name was Purplesaurus Rex, and this twelve-page comic was the obvious inspiration for my childhood foray into corporate comics. The villain ("Scorch") even utters the one piece of dialogue I remember using. However, I have no recollection of where I must've found this comic.
This is where y'all come in. Does anyone know where this comic was originally published? Marvel apparently published a six-issue Kool-Aid Man comic. Does anyone have the issues? Is this story from those? Or was it some sort of insert?
Hopefully someone can help me reconnect with this odd piece of my childhood. I'm also trying to find the original Aaron King minicomic, but it's not in my personal files and it's not with the parents. Another classic lost to time, I guess...