what , no flaming carot comics thread?

[ultramandingo]

"hey kids , in this issue see pie fights , ghosts , bimbos , sponge boy , a lost bar of soap. and the first super-hero to go through an entire adventure in his pajamas!" and freekin joe isuzu .comon i cant be the only f'n carrot reader out here UT!

[TheHistorian]

This is the first year in what, a decade, that has seen more than one issue published? Give us a break. :)

Yeah, FC is still freakin' hilarious. It's a always a grand romp through the surreal.

[The Scribe]

Flaming Carrot is one of the craziest comics I've ever read.
I have a few trades and single issues. I want to see the new comic published by Image. ;)

Historian, there have been more than one Flaming Carrot comic come out in the past couple of years. Take a look on Milehighcomics.com.

http://www.cale.com/images/flaming_carrot.jpg


http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3740/400/3740_4_24.jpg

[matt levin]

Hey Carrot lovers,
Two questions:

is the FC comic solicted for January the one with photographed characters? I think it's billed as a special. Remember reading about it a lonnng time ago, but this's the first I remember seeing it actually offered. Or is this a second appearance of the style?

annnnnd....

Anybody remember Burden's one-shot Robot Comics? Really liked it even better than the Carrot at the time (which after a dozen issues had begun to seem less exciting to me)?

thanks,
Matt

[ultramandingo]

Hey Carrot lovers,
Two questions:

is the FC comic solicted for January the one with photographed characters? I think it's billed as a special. Remember reading about it a lonnng time ago, but this's the first I remember seeing it actually offered. Or is this a second appearance of the style?

annnnnd....

Anybody remember Burden's one-shot Robot Comics? Really liked it even better than the Carrot at the time (which after a dozen issues had begun to seem less exciting to me)?

thanks,
Matt

#4 has a couple of "photographed" pages ( wich looks better than i thoght they would) "and we're real!ha! we're not coic book characters anymore! " the next one is the "fumetti issue" and in color(?)

annnnnd....

yea i remember Robot Comics. check out mike mingolas "amazing screw on head" if you can find it , kinda reminds me of that.
plus would'nt a carrot/ hellboy crossover be cool?

[thetracker]

Just what I was looking for. Carrot Talk. I just picked up number 4 today and it everthing you expect. Bob has really turned a corner. Issue 3 is probably the best issue in the carrots entire history. Multiple plots, buncha weirdness, and his art is improving. 4 takes a step back, but pulls it out with Joe Isuzu.

[Paul Kersey]

I just remember seeing ads with FC chilling with Bat-mite in the Comic Book Buyers Guide and thinking it looked cool.

I bought the TMNT crossover issue, and some strange stuff. But pretty funny, especially his origin.

[ultramandingo]

speaking of his origin......the carot is sposed to be somebody "famous" ( like johnny carson) , who went nuts and started fighting crime - like batman .only a couple of people know who who he really is ( one of them is billy "lost in space "mumy!!!!!)...any one got any clues? i bet its " chuck norris"!

[Cash Lone]

speaking of his origin......the carot is sposed to be somebody "famous" ( like johnny carson) , who went nuts and started fighting crime - like batman .only a couple of people know who who he really is ( one of them is billy "lost in space "mumy!!!!!)...any one got any clues? i bet its " chuck norris"!

Yeah, there was a contest in the late 80s in the comic, to see if anyone could guess who the flaming carrot really is. Some guy won but its still a secret as to who is under the carrot mask.

My last issue of Flaming Carrot was the crossover w/ Reid Fleming "worlds toughest milkman". I used to love both books as a teenager but the crossover left me a bit underwhelmed. I still think a Reid Fleming movie would be boss.

Did anyone read the Mystery Men comic? I recall enjoying that as well.

[ultramandingo]

My last issue of Flaming Carrot was the crossover w/ Reid Fleming "worlds toughest milkman". I used to love both books as a teenager but the crossover left me a bit underwhelmed. I still think a Reid Fleming movie would be boss.



http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/ENT0501/508250318/1052/ENT


"Yet a song like "Milk Truck on Fire" sounds like something that's supposed to be taken seriously. Like modern rock even, if you're disposed to taking that seriously.

What is "Milk Truck on Fire," a love song?

"I think it's surreal," Travis says. "I don't know what's going on. Yeah, it's sorta a love song, one of those many songs I've written about how many problems people have talking to each other."

Yet it actually draws its inspiration, he confesses, from a comic book of about two decades ago called Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milk Man. "He was this tremendously bitter milk man," Travis says. "There was always this crudely drawn milk truck going over a hill, people throwing wrenches at it.

"I heard they almost made it into a movie, and I was hoping it would be Gene Hackman."

[Sleeper]

Read the first issue, was a little weirded out, but ultimately not too pressed to want more of it.

[unkiedev]

At the NYCC a few weeks back there was a girl dressed as Flaming Carrot. She was awesome! Everywhere she went there was hoots and hollers and clapping and the sound of people being happy...

I was excited, but I still found it odd: Flaming Carrot is a character everybody recognizes but so few folks have read.

[ultramandingo]

a flaming carot girl ..GRRRRRRR....woof.....anyhoo anybody get the color photo thing......oh just me . ok , be that way, anyhoo.....not sure why they needed the new super team . a carot and STERANKO!!!!team up would be just fine ......you know what , forget the carot .i want a STERANKO!!!! comic!!!!!..plus that startrek+drwho kid was wayyyyyy kreepy. gimme a space 1999 + thunderbirds kid anyday

[matt levin]

Got the photographic special--tolja the Carrot was real. Or maybe I didn't, doesn't matter right? Anyway, while I loved the photo-style, the (ahem) story was too much like the stories of the last several years-- Carrot knocked me out (but I recovered, mostly) when he first appeared, but by now, there's just something missing. And that's--the weirdness. Maybe it's the times in which we live now; maybe it's something else. But what's to compare with the dead dog floating through the air, or sponge-boy (take THAT Sponge-"Bob" square imitator!! Ut!). Carrot himself is too savvy, those around him too slick, for me. I too, a Reid Flemming fan, was less than impressed with the 'team-up', the last Carrot issue (so to speak) that I bought prior this 'they call it fumetti in Italy' one.

but hey--happy reading all,
Matt

[JmsNle]

Any idea where the photo comic pics were taken? It looks like downtown Orlando and the Orange County Convention Center to me, but it could just be that's what I want to see since I'm from Orlando.

(This, my second post, is definitely not as confident as my first)

[ultramandingo]

looks like iron city or palookaville to me......mabey springfeid