>make a gay version of a character after a lot of people joked about him being gay>make his sexuality plot-relevant and thematically important without it being his sole character trait>make him a complex and flawed but still likeable characterAt the very least, it was better executed than what happened to Velma in the series of the same name.
>>150211979you are like 10 years late.
>>150211979Okay I can get why people thought Snagglepus was gay. But why QuickDraw and Huckleberry hound?
>>150211979Decent story but done in the lens of classic cartoon characters, so difficult to care about. I assume the contemporary reception was the same as it would be today, with people whining about it being "woke," how McCarthy was right to prosecute gay people since that's "cultural marxism," and reeing about how "they're RAPING my childhood!" as though anyone ever gave a shit about these poorly animated characters. The ending showing them transitioning from legitimate theatre into becoming the insipid cartoon characters they originated as is also a deeply cynical resolution, showing that you can either stay in the closet and allude to your sexuality through the plausible deniablity of metaphor, or you can make yourself into a one-note caricature that America can laugh at. Out of all those dumb Hanna Barbera reboot comics, this was the best one, but thats a very low bar to clear
>>150212324Huckleberry has always been gay and Quickdraw is gay in the way that Batman is gay
>>150212324They were actors, right? Not all gays are campy flamboyant flamers. The majority of gays are just regular guys who happen to be homosexual. Acting is a pretty gay profession and they're probably analogous to someone like Rock Hudson
>>150211979El Kabong gaybashing Huckleberry Hound is all I remember about this comic lol
>>150212324They probably the two characters most associated with him so they were always going to be the ones picked as supporting characters Also Quick was already made gay way before this in Harvey Birdman
>>150212425Yep. For every Oscar Wilde, there are probably multiple Walt Whitmans.
>>150211979It was commie apologist propaganda
>>150212425Retard
Was Snagglepuss a bottom or not I forget
>>150211979Never understood why people thought he was gay, besides him being pink. He was clearly just a Bert Lahr impersonation
>>150212408>Out of all those dumb Hanna Barbera reboot comics, this was the best one, but thats a very low bar to clearDisagree.Flintstones was a better execution at the subversiveness while still having heart.Ennis' Dastardly & Muttley is criminally underrated and IMO better than Snagglepuss. I'd put D&M second only to Flintstones only because Flintstones had more room to do stuff w 12 issues.Also, FutureQuest was a very different thing but also enjoyable. Wholesome and sincere. Deserved to live on. And fwiw, I think Jetsons wasn't bad. Not amazing, but not awful. It was decent.Wacky Raceland and Chaykin's Ruff & Reddy were garbage.Scooby Apocalypse... I can't believe it survived for 3 years. Giffen is always decent-at-worst, but still... the premise was stretched thin. The Secret Squirrel backups were the best part
>>150214513Adding on... the first 2 volumes of the DC/HB crossovers were genuinely goofy fun. Volume 3 ran out of juice.And the Looney Tunes/DC crossovers from the same time were also good. Russel's Lex Luthor/Porky Pig crossover from volume 2 was IMO better than Snagglepuss as well. In hindsight, Snagglepuss was one of Russell's weaker DC books because it felt too on-the-nose. Prez and Wonder Twins were more enjoyable as well.
>>150214551The main problem with Snagglepuss is that it's "straight person's first experience with gay fiction" both in terms of writer and audience. Among the actual queer market gayngst has been passe since the early 00s and historical retrospective gayngst that isn't a memoir is the LGBT lit equivalent of Oscar bait.
