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#773388 - 04/25/05 11:55 AM Flaming Carrot!
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At my LCS yesterday, was absolutely amazed to see a new issue of Flaming Carrot! (I don't browse new books very regularly, so if this has been discussed to death already, apologies.)

Man, did I love this book in the 80s, but the infrequency with which it came out made it hard to maintain active interest. I started collecting it during the wait between issues #14 and #15, and stopped collecting it during the wait between issues #18 and #19...which was about a two-and-a-half-year period, as I recall. In those days before the internet, it took me that whole period of time to assemble the #2-#13 run, trudging from comic store to comic store. And in more recent years (and thanks to ebay and Donut!), I finally picked up issue #1.

Any other Copper fans out there who remember the Carrot fondly?

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#773389 - 04/25/05 07:23 PM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Point Five]
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I read the new # 1 about 2 months ago. Burden didn't skip a beat. Same wacky situations and dialog. A baloney blaster! I loved it.
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#773390 - 04/25/05 09:29 PM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Moondog]
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Used to read it.Loved it as a quirky book.
Did they ever reveal just who the FC was?
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#773391 - 04/26/05 08:11 AM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: shadroch]
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I don't think we ever found that out. Also, the mystery of the speaker implanted in his chest...

The Killian Barracks FC #1 that I picked up last year was one of my grails. If I could just complete a set of Visions now I'd be all carroted up.

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#773392 - 04/26/05 09:55 AM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Zanarkand]
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Thanks guys. I'll have to pick up the new issues.

I also have some of the oddball (well, weren't they all?) Carrot appearances and Bob Burden projects from the mid-eighties. At the time, ANYTHING by Bob Burden seemed like a pretty big deal...

Anything Goes #1 (beautiful 5-page COLOR Carrot origin story)
A-V in 3-D #1 (Carrot story)
Cerebus #61-62 (Carrot backup stories), #63 (Burden story)
Cerebus #104 (full Carrot x-over)
Gumby's Summer Fun Special (art by Art Adams)
Robot Comics #0

and probably others I'm not remembering right now.

That's very cool, Zanarkand! I never did manage to get a Killian Barracks #1.

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#773393 - 04/26/05 11:56 AM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Point Five]
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I have about five issues not counting the Turtles and Cerebus crossovers (so about ten or so in all) and I plan on completing because I love the concept, and the Mystery Men, but it's down the list after finshing Amazing (05-06 goal) and TMNT #1 forst print and finishing Usagi, so maybe five years away.
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#773394 - 04/27/05 09:50 PM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Point Five]
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Ut! I''m not up on what is going on in the current marketplace, this caught me off completely off guard! Had to shoot Bob and email. Funn!! Cannot wait.
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#773395 - 04/29/05 04:57 PM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: VanDyne]
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Quote:

Ut! I''m not up on what is going on in the current marketplace, this caught me off completely off guard! Had to shoot Bob and email. Funn!! Cannot wait.




Welcome to the boards!!

I'm actually quite curious about what made Bob Burden relaunch FC...the book seemed to trail off in the mid-nineties, so I figured that he might have quite reasonably lost interest after so many years of doing it. Probably the letter columns will explain all...I always used to enjoy his "Bob Speaks!" column. I'll plan to pick up these two new issues soon.

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#773396 - 04/30/05 12:04 AM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Point Five]
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Imagine an allegory that juxtaposes incongruous emotions while an uncomfortable transfusion of the ideas seeps back and forth between them... Never mind. I'll imagine it for you.

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Zoot! have not found it yet! I love carrot!
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#773397 - 04/30/05 01:45 PM Re: Flaming Carrot! [Re: Point Five]
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Custom title? I don't need no stinkin' custom title.

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Flaming Carrot is one of the few bright-spots of the 80's books for me. I've managed to pick up quite a few copies here and there, as they fly under the radar. Great books!!!

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