Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for April 25, 2009
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Transcript:
Poncho: You got a nasty bump on the head, you still seem a little out of it. You feel okay? Bird: Yeah, I think so... Where are my pants? Poncho: You're a pigeon. You don't wear... Any... Uh, hang on a sec. Carmen: I am not making a tiny pair of pigeon pants. Poncho: Oh, come on, it'll be hilarious!
Mickey wears pants but no shirt, Donald wears a shirt but no pants. Howard the Duck also wore upper clothing (white shirt, red tie, rumpled blue suit jacket) with no pants. After several years of success with Howard, the Disney people coerced Marvel into giving him pants so as to lessen the resemblance to Donald.
The pants weren’t actually the killing stroke for Howard (Marvel’s abandonment of Steve Gerber’s vision was responsible for that), but it didn’t help. Then came the movie (the horror, the horror).