The Ren & Stimpy Show #13

It's a book chock full of Halloween fun with your friends Ren and Stimpy!

The boys are working the graveyard shift in a graveyard. It gets kinda weird and spooky at night. So Ren tells a story to help pass the time. Set in the 1940s, when a piece of chewing gum gets hit with a massive burst of radiation, the world is terrorized by Goo-Gum, The Living Candy! 

I love Ren and Stimpy! They were funny, gross and actually a lot smarter than you think. There were lots of inside jokes, clever puns, and just brilliant moments of madcap insanity. I miss that show!

Finding issues of The Ren & Stimpy Show comic book is like finding never-before-seen episodes! The comics are designed like the cartoon was with multi-part stories spread throughout, fun parody ads, and even Ask Mr. Stupid! 

I often find these issues for a dollar or less at a local thrift store. I've even found an autographed issue or two. Somebody was a big fan and had almost the entire series run, along with annuals and one-shots. This issue was a great read for a Halloween night done in the Nick Toons style! Marvel Comics, you were a master at getting this title right!

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 10 out of 10 stars.

The Ren & Stimpy Show Holiday Special, 1994

    

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! That's what Christmas is all about to good little Stimpy J. Cat. And getting Toys! Well, at least that's what arguably lovable Ren Hoek thinks.
      This special from 1994 is a compilation of 2 holiday-themed comics from the Marvel series based on the classic kids cartoon plus some all new material. The first half of the special involves Mr. Yak flipping channels and being inundated with dozens of horrible Christmas specials. Then Ren must earn money in order to buy Stimpy a legendary Log (It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.) after he discovers that Stimpy used his life savings to buy his chihuahua friend a Christmas gift.
   Then it's back to some more of those weird holiday specials. I say they're weird because most of them involve characters dressed up as walruses. This is some sort of secret shame to dress as such and to my honest recollection, I have no memory of this running gag. But I can tell you it gets old real quick.
  Lastly, Ren seeks revenge on Ol St. Nick after Stimpy gets a ton of presents for being good and the puppy has wound up on the naughty list. Kris Kringle will learn his lesson though as Ren's found enough incriminating evidence to put him permanently back on the good list while being able to earn some dough blackmailing characters such as Powdered Toast Man.
    I rather liked this holiday special. I've read the second story involving Ren blackmailing Santa before. Thankfully, it was the only thing I had read before. Plus, there was more stuff in the issue I had read previously, like an 'Ask Dr. Stupid' segment and some fake commercials. I'm assuming that there is some unused material in the other issue from which in this book was culled. So, that issue is still on my wish list. Plus as I mentioned before, there is some all-new material in this book along with the reprints.
   I love Ren & Stimpy. It was a treat to watch growing up in the 90s with my kid sister and getting to revisit this world once again through this holiday special has me wanting to do two things really bad- 1) get all of the books in the Marvel regular series and 2) watch some Ren & Stimpy!
   It's a little gross, a little corny, and totally weird, but I love it and it's worth consuming.

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.

The Ren & Stimpy Show #6

When Powdered Toast Man is away, his good buddy Spider-man must fill in. This is fortuitous as someone has turned the beacon of a nutritious breakfast into a baddie. Thus, it’s up to your friendly neighborhood Ren and Stimpy to assist Spider-man in saving not only the day BUT the most important meal of the day as well.

This issue was shear insanity. But, when you can’t watch the classic Nickelodeon show, this is the next best thing. Has Ren and Stimpy ever been released on DVD? I remember those god awful neon orange VHS tapes but without a working VCR, what’s a Reniac to do?

This issue was great. The art was spot on to that of the TV show. This issue didn’t have a commercial to break the action, like the classic LOG. But, the letters pages is done as an “Ask Dr. Stupid” segment and made up for the lack of middle act. I hope to find the rest of this series someday and one day- I’ll get my DVDs too!

Worth Consuming.

Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.