A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

This week, our Halloween coverage continues with More Tales from the Far Side, the never-seen-in-America sequel to Tales from the Far Side. It's Tales from the FARTHER Side, you might say!  It's got to be Halloween cuz what other holiday would this represent?

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) kick off the Halloween season with a look at the surprisingly obscure Tales from the Far Side, the Far Side adaptation that is ostensibly a Halloween special because, really, what other holiday could you possibly expect to make an appropriately apt Far Side adaptation for?

This week, Mike (@bitterkarella) and Ethan (@Gtron) look at video games based on comic strips, including... well, you know what, just listen to the episode. Be surprised.

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) look at a fogotten cartoon series pilot, Carlton Your Doorman. WTF??? What does this have to do with comics? Well, Carlton Your Doorman is based on the character of Carlton the doorman from Rhoda, the phenomenally popular unseen character who was the first ever role of Lorenzo Music, the man who would eventually portray Garfield. See? There's...

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) look at Garfield's 10 Anniversary special. Can you believe that Garfield is 10 years old today? It's a celebration of all things Garfield with this special that looks behind the scenes of Paws Inc to learn the awful, terrifying secrets of Garfield's production.

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) look at Garfield's 10 Anniversary special. Can you believe that Garfield is 10 years old today? It's a celebration of all things Garfield with this special that looks behind the scenes of Paws Inc to learn the awful, terrifying secrets of Garfield's production.

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )  look at all your favorite cartoon characters selling out and shilling a  whole lot of stupid garbage! Thaaaaat's capitalism! Join BC, Garfield,  Peanuts and more as they tell you what consumer goods or services you  need in your life!

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )  look at all your favorite cartoon characters selling out and shilling a  whole lot of stupid garbage! Thaaaaat's capitalism! Join BC, Garfield,  Peanuts and more as they tell you what consumer goods or services you  need in your life!

This week, Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) look at all your favorite cartoon characters selling out and shilling a whole lot of stupid garbage! Thaaaaat's capitalism! Join BC, Garfield, Peanuts and more as they tell you what consumer goods or services you need in your life!

Heeeey it's life in the army with Beetle Bailey, the soldier who's been enlisted for 50 years yet never seen a day of combat in America's eternal forever war. What happens when Beetle Bailey has to represent Camp Swampy in front of some Pentagon Brass and then Plato makes a flying chair helicopter that shoots things? It's madness when Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @gtron ) look at this anima...

In this episode Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan (@ gtron ) discuss the animated adaptation of Hagar the Horrible, Hagar Knows Best, where Dik Browne takes all three of the (questionable) facts that he knows about vikings to make this hilarious tale of traditional viking Hagar dealing with his wacky modern-timesy kids. When exactly was the age of the vikings? We're still not sure.

Hey it's Pogo, that lovable possum that doesn't really look like a possum but does make cutting political commentary! Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) welcome a very special guest Lyndsey ( @morbiomatic ), whom you might know best for creating our theme song but is ALSO a certified, licensed, bonded Pogo expert. She knows way more about Pogo than either of us! Mike as usual hasn't seen...

Hey it's Pogo, that lovable possum that doesn't really look like a possum but does make cutting political commentary! Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) welcome a very special guest Lyndsey ( @morbiomatic ), whom you might know best for creating our theme song but is ALSO a certified, licensed, bonded Pogo expert. She knows way more about Pogo than either of us! Mike as usual hasn't seen...

It's those Fantastic Funnies! Imagine that it's wayback in 1980 and CBS feels like there's just NOT enough awareness of the funny pages. People just weren't aware of these things called comics. So naturally they decided to make a primetime extravaganza starring Loni Anderson to tell people about the fact that comic strips existed. This special introduces us to popular "new" comics like Cathy and B...

It's those Fantastic Funnies! Imagine that it's wayback in 1980 and CBS feels like there's just NOT enough awareness of the funny pages. People just weren't aware of these things called comics. So naturally they decided to make a primetime extravaganza starring Loni Anderson to tell people about the fact that comic strips existed. This special introduces us to popular "new" comics like Cathy and B...

It's those Fantastic Funnies! Imagine that it's wayback in 1980 and CBS feels like there's just NOT enough awareness of the funny pages. People just weren't aware of these things called comics. So naturally they decided to make a primetime extravaganza starring Loni Anderson to tell people about the fact that comic strips existed. This special introduces us to popular "new" comics like Cathy and B...

It's A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss    animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. In this episode,  we  finally break our comic rule for the SECOND time: We talk about   something that was NEVER actually a comic strip! Instead, it's Molly  and  t...

It's A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss   animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. In this episode, we  finally break our comic rule for the SECOND time: We talk about  something that was NEVER actually a comic strip! Instead, it's Molly and  the Skywalkerz in Two Dad...

It's A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss  animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. In this episode, we finally break our comic rule for the first time: We talk about something that was NEVER actually a comic strip! Instead, it's Molly and the Skywalkerz in Happily Ever After, an animated...

It's A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss  animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. Today we return to our least favorite comic turned into most favorite special, Cathy, for a discussion of the final Cathy special, Cathy's Valentine, and a huge derailment into 1980s commercials. Cathy's Va...

It's A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss  animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This time, we celebrate the day when trees are born. It's Arbor Day! Arbor Day, Charlie Brown! Oh that Charlie Brown, he's gonna plant a tree. Tree stuff. 

It's A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss  animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. Or, in this case, a comic from Scholastic hand-outs.  So TECHNICALLY this falls under the letter of our mandate to discuss comic strip adaptations. It Zwibble is a dinosaur that teaches kids about taki...

Welcome to our 30th EPISODE ahem ahem of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. Or, in this case, a web comic. We're looking at Control Alt Delete: The Web Series, the web series based on Control Alt Delete: The Web Comic. It's the web comic so good that w...

Welcome to episode 31 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  In this episode, we continue our look at not ONE but two comics turned cartoons: It's the cute and not all that menacing American Dennis the Menace and the  more menacing and class...

Welcome to episode 30 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )       discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  In  this episode, we look at not ONE but two comics turned cartoons: It's the cute and not all that menacing American Dennis the Menace and the more m...