In honor of President’s Day, a segment of history that was sadly left out of even the most detailed histories of our Sixteenth President:
Hang on a second, let me double-check here… Herbie? Fighting a bear? With Abraham Lincoln? I think it’s official: Herbie #11 is the greatest comic book of all time.
And you don’t WANNA know what the Railsplitter did to the Redcoats and the forest fire while Herbie was taking care of the others!
I really wonder how he stopped that forest fire. Reblogged it, regardless.
The whispering statue, for some reason, makes me think of that “Kirk… Help me, Kirk…” episode of the old Star Trek, where the evil genius who was also supposedly an impressionist or ventriloquist or something tricked Kirk into an ambush with Genghis Khan.
The rattler, the bear and the forest fire I can understand, but really Abe, Redcoats? Like 80 years after the Revolution? That’s just lettin’ your guard down, dude.
What…no story on how Lincoln and Scalphunter leg-wrassled?
Don’t forget all the important stuff left out of the historical accounts of our first president:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cz5Uv1IcLo
(the first :30 is a little slow, but I promise it becomes all kinds of awesome, featuring two of the things most loved around these parts)
I love Herbie posts as much as anyone who can’t afford to buy the collections yet, but I think Sterling or Church or someone beat you to posting this one already…
I know I saw it somewhere already anyway…
Honestly, I’m just glad Herbie wasn’t the one to kill Lincoln with a cherry lollipop to the back of the head.
MARRY ME HERBIE
I have pals who really like Herbie but I…don’t get it. It comes off too precocious.
“Bring it, boy. I’m gonna emancipate your teeth.”
Was that before or after Abe arm wrestled Scalphunter?
Why I love comics: Abraham Lincoln is always doing something awesome.
You guys are talking like I didn’t post the Abe/Scalphunter story a couple years ago. Don’t you have intimate knowledge of my archives?!
I suppose that depends on what you mean by “intimate” there.
I suppose that’s what you mean by “archives”!
Like Lincoln’d need help from Herbie.
hahaha thanks
I needed that, after how shitty today has been
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKi9uQg9UyM
Figure this is in your wheelhouse if you hhaven’t seen it already
@ darth krzysztof:
“Bring it, boy. I’m gonna emancipate your teeth.â€
Perhaps the most important words ever spoken in comics.
“Like Lincoln’d need help from Herbie.”
Well of course he doesn’t. That’s why he’s embarrassed in that second panel, but when Herbie shows up to help you can’t refuse him. The repercussions of doing that are too terrible to comprehend.
I think that scene is in this:
http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Sh-Worlds-Weirdest-Comic/dp/0312533950/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234912077&sr=8-1
I could swear I saw it whilst thumbing through it and being subsequently disappointed that they didn’t actually reprint any of that stuff in full.
Also, Lincoln’s statue whispering really makes me lose my shit. The rest of it is pretty well par for Herbie’s course.
That isn’t a statue.
It’s Abe. Herbie helped him with his cover so as to maintain a view of Washington politics.
Is Herbie keeping an eye out for Giant Stone John Wilkes Booth?
Also, if Dark Horse could tie that issue of the Umbrella Academy where they fight Lincoln in to Herbie, that would be awesome. I’m just saying.
“Bring it, boy. I’m gonna emancipate your teeth.â€
Perhaps the most important words ever spoken in comics.
If anyone doubts that Benito Cereno is one of the finest young writers of our generation, that sentence is all you need to say to remind them.
Herbie’s lollipop > Thor’s hammer
I am pretty sure Superman couldn’t wield the lollipop of they ever crossed over.
“Herbie’s lollipop > Thor’s hammer”
Goes without saying, really.
The world needs more Herbie. Better yet, a Herbie/Flaming Carrot crossover.
Where was Charles Darwin in all this? It’s his 200th birthday too, ya know.