Gumby

Artist/writer Arthur Adams is a true pop culture geek.

Fandom knows that Arthur loves Godzilla.  But did you know he also has a fondness for the flexible, rubberized, stop motion animated character Gumby and his horse Pokey?

When Comico was still publishing Arthur drew and wrote two Gumby issues: Gumby’s Winter Fun Special and Gumby’s Summer Fun Special.

In the Gumby’s Summer Fun Special Gumby and Pokey contend with a bully, console a suicidal friend, meet robot neighbors and discover an alien flying saucer.

As their adventure continues they run up against a werewolf and a huge bear alien, tackle pirates, visit a Halloween town with its spooky residents and finally find their way home.

It’s a hilarious romp as Arthur Adams showcases his incredible range as a penciller translating writer Bob Burden’s whirlwind script into pictures.

In the Gumby’s Winter Fun Special Gumby and Pokey once again find themselves in a number of predicaments.

This time its a toy mine cave-in, an underground adventure, mole people, a subterranean amusement park, the rescue of a captured Santa Claus, a meeting with the Devil, the invasion of several giant Japanese monsters and Gumby’s robotic giant Gumby.

Whew!  Arthur Adams and writer Steve Purcell packed enough excitement in one issue than most comic books manage to do in a whole year’s worth of issues.

It's great!  It’s gigantic!  It’s Gumby and Pokey too!

Psalms 56:3-4 - What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.