Comments on: Yow! What have they done to Little Lulu?

By: Nerdium

Nerdium — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:27:34 +0000

I'm Brazilian, and I couldn't agree more with this article. I used to read Little Lulu comics when I was a child, I still like looking for vintage stuff (like the own Little Lulu comics, for instance), and what they did to the character was murder.
I also used to read Mônica's Gang comics about 30 years ago, when their comics were still at least intelligent.
Speaking of intelligence, I just hate to see the Brazilian angry mob coming here to make a bad-mouthed comment in Portuguese and thinking they are so cool. Exactly what they did to Orkut. They took it over and messed it all.
We have English classes in our schools, I can't understand why in the world do they still can be so lame at their age.
So sorry about that. Keep up the good work, congrats for the article.

By: DELEGADO

DELEGADO — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:13 +0000

Vao todos se fuder, voces nao mandam em mim, principalmente os brasileiros e brasileiras de merda!!

E eu quero hentai da luluzinha e da turma da monica!! !!!!!!!!!!

By: John Mayer

John Mayer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:31:12 +0000

Even when Gold Key TRIED to stick with the original concept their version of Little Lulu fell flat. There was only one John Stanley. I’m sure his heirs must be outraged, but Stanley didn’t own the rights to the characters (even though I imagine he created at least a few of them). This might have been a clever concept as a one shot (though I can’t imagine what market they’d be courting); in fact I’ve seen artists’ concepts before of the characters all grown up (Tubby, atypically for Americans, has actually lost weight), and they were rather amusing. But I don’t have to read any of these stories (I can’t read Portuguese anyhow, though, I can get alonb in Spanish, so maybe I could dope out the storyline) to know they’re going to suck; the generic art is enough for me to avoid it. Actually, almost ALL animé/manga art looks bland and generic to me; I can’t imagine why it’s so popular.

I suspect this will be every bit as successful as the conversion of the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny characters to superheroes. Or as successful as New Coke.

Yours truly,
John Mayer

By: Kamen Rider

Kamen Rider — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:44:26 +0000

Cadê o chinelo?!

By: Bia From Brazil

Bia From Brazil — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:09:22 +0000

(Sorry for the poor English) They just want to get money. They think they can beat "Turma da Mônica Jovem". But they can't. There are kids (here, in Brazil) that don't even know who is Little Lulu. Nobody is going to buy it, just that old nostalgic guys. In the past "Little Lulu" made a huge success here, but today, like I said, few kids know her here. When I was younger I used to watch the TV cartoon, but I didnt know that it was a comic book! But, in fact... Its terrible! - E para os brasileiros: Minha nossa, pelo menos a Turma da Mônica Jovem é bem desenhada. Sei que muitas pessoas não gostam, porque destruiu a infância e etc etc, mas vamos combinar que pelo menos os estúdios Maurício de Sousa estão fazendo um bom trabalho. E já que estamos no meio de várias pessoas dos EUA, queria comentar que tem uma coisa que detesto no comportamento deles: Eles (e o resto do mundo) se chamam de "Americanos". Ora, nós também somos americanos, os mexicanos são americanos, os canadenses também. A América é um CONTINENTE, não um país! Devíamos começar a chamá-los de "Estado-unidenses" para eles pararem de se achar os donos da América! (Como se isso fosse adiantar)

By: johnnya

johnnya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:05 +0000

Lest we forget, this Lulu is only halfway to the adult one that represents a certain North American comic book organization. WE raised the bar first!

By: regisclei

regisclei — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:07:00 +0000

"Every North American is stupid!"

How do you like this kind of generalization, said by me, a Brazilian man, judging everyone in U.S.A. based only in the acts of you ex-presidente G.W.Bush?

Well, that's the same as Chris Mautner saying;
"I’m sure that will work well for them".

We didn´t vote for Lulu Teen. It was not a majority decision. It was not a democratic election (like you did by reelecting Bush)

Choose carefuly your words.

Regisclei

By: johnnya

johnnya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:00:17 +0000

It is kinda hard to take the complaints here seriously. In North America, Little Lulu hasn't been published as a new series in decades and the only books you can get are reprint collections. So what audience is this offending? One that doesn't exist, obviously.
Please let us make fun of how other countries keep comic books a viable and popular medium (Whats next? an expose on the story lines in German Donald Duck books?) while ignoring how publishers in the US have run themselves into a publishing ghetto.

By: DaisyDeadhead

DaisyDeadhead — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:38:36 +0000

OMG, that is is utterly horrifying.

I grew up with the original and adored her.

By: ScottyQuick

ScottyQuick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:19:54 +0000

So … they’ve taken everything that was original and funny about the characters and replaced them with generic cliches? Because it's totally fair to say that they're generic clichés when you haven't read it.