About 7 years ago, I got really excited about a devious trick Steve Gerber played in his crossover comics Spiderman/Howard the Duck and Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck. So excited I spent an afternoon making a fan site about it, which despite never being updated is located here.
It never occurred to me to tell Steve about it, but he found it anyway and sent me an email that said very nice things about the site. Later, when he was writing Howard the Duck vol. 2, he found reason to put up a link to my site, which really made my day.
The reason I love this comic is less because it's good (although it is, though hardly Steve's best work) but because of the extremely clever thing he did with Howard the Duck in it. He came up with a metafictional rescue that Grant Morrison would have been proud of.
Posted by pearce at March 3, 2008 11:59 PMHey, the link doesn't seem to work...
Posted by: Kate Laity at March 4, 2008 3:30 AMThat would be because "a herf" doesn't work. Fixed now.
Posted by: Pearce at March 4, 2008 7:39 PM