

I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw! I've never had that experience with another artist before or since." Gerber later said to Colan: "There really was almost a telepathic connection there. Coyote gets run over by a steamroller, the result is a pancake-flat coyote who can be expected to snap back to three dimensions within moments if Howard gets run over by a steamroller, the result is blood on asphalt." Gene Colan became the regular penciller with issue #4.

For Gerber, Howard was a flesh-and-blood duck and explained that "If Wile E. Gerber wrote 27 issues of the series (for the most part ditching the horror parodies), illustrated by a variety of artists, beginning with Frank Brunner. Series co-star Beverly Switzler in background. Starting in 2014, the character, voiced by Seth Green, appeared in cameos in several Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, the Disney XD animated series Guardians of the Galaxy (2015–19) and Ultimate Spider-Man (2016 with Kevin Michael Richardson), and the Disney+ series What If.? (2021). Howard the Duck was portrayed by Ed Gale and voiced by Chip Zien in the critically and commercially unsuccessful 1986 self-titled film.

It's not supposed to be an existential experience." The book is existentialist, and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no joke: ". that life's most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view." Gloria Katz, producer of the notorious, ill-fated 1986 movie adaptation of the comic, expressed a diametrically opposed opinion of the character, "It's a film about a duck from outer space. Howard's adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. Echoing this, the most common tagline of his comics reads 'Trapped In a World He Never Made!' 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered anthropomorphic animal trapped on a human-dominated Earth. Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 ( cover-dated Dec. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Leonard the Duck, Howard the Human, Iron Duck, Agent Duck, Cynical Duck

Howard the Duck as depicted on a variant cover of Howard the Duck #1 (November 2015)
