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COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #31

DANNY AND THE DEMONCYCLE

Highway Safety Division of Virginia, 1972
Distributed to public school children in a safe bicycle campaign, newsprint with glossy covers.

PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH:
Bike Safety and Demons

YOUR LETTERS

Ethan
COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #31 
 
DANNY AND THE DEMONCYCLE 
 
Highway Safety Division of Virginia, 1972 
Distributed to public school children in a safe bicycle campaign, newsprint with glossy covers. 
 
PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH: 
Bike Safety and Demons
02/02/2009, 22:13:03
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Continuity Editor
This one was a lot of fun to read. However! 
 
Page 09 
Devil: "Well Young Man, Have Fun!" 
Danny: "Wait! I Can't Get My Hands Loose!" 
Devil: "I Remember Now. Your Hands And Feet Stick To The Handle-Bars And Pedals So You Won't Fall Off This Super-Speed Cycle!" 
 
Oh really? If that's so, what's with: 
 
Single foot off pedal on Page 11, Panel 3 
Loose foot on Page 12, Panel 1 
Two loose feet and a dangling hand, Page 15 
 
Three inconsistencies!
02/03/2009, 08:59:05
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BBB
"Three inconsistencies!" 
 
Ah, stop it you! Don't you know the devil's in the details...
02/03/2009, 09:18:25
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Dabbs
Seriously though, even WITH the glued hands and feet, that's a pretty sweet bike.
02/03/2009, 11:48:49
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alex
So, the devil is a force for good in the end? Maybe *that's* why an omnipotent God allows him to exist. 
 
I'm amused by the implication that the bicyclist is a danger to others on the road. You often hear of drivers killing cyclists and pedestrians, but almost never the other way around (because it almost never happens).
02/03/2009, 12:14:33
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Bourgeois_Rage
What's up with the image of Danny at the end. He looks like some kind of bike riding hobo. This is the future of goof cyclists everywhere?
02/03/2009, 13:43:37
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Goof Cyclist
> "This is the future of goof cyclists everywhere?" 
 
Nice typo! Or intended? Either way, to your question: Yes, probably!
02/03/2009, 14:08:15
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Suzan HH
He looks like some kind of bike riding hobo.  
 
A beard and clean clothes makes someone a hobo? Stop the world, what decade are we living in here? 
 
I love that image too, though.
02/03/2009, 14:11:13
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Public Advocate
"I'D RATHER BE A LIVE CHICKEN THAN A DEAD DOPE" 
 
No reason he's saying that to a cast member from one of those 'Starving in Ethiopia' unifec ads, is there? 
 
Don't taunt the starving Ethiopians with dope or chicken!
02/03/2009, 15:24:19
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Fungelstein
Actually, in that last page, I thought he looked more like a drugged-out hippy (evident from his goofy eyes).  
 
I guess that's what parents want their children to be when they grow up? Seeing as how Danny is suppose to be a role model in the comic. 
 
Actually, why is it he's still not wearing a helmet? You'd think smashing your head onto the pavement and ending up in a hospital would encourage him to wear one.
02/03/2009, 15:59:52
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Fritz
Rolling my eyes about the helmet comment -- they didn't have effective helmets in 1972.
02/03/2009, 18:03:52
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Dan
It's not just that he's all old on the last page, but he's practically wearing the same clothes. Like he became so obsessed with safe bike riding that he just stuck to his childhood mental state. Living in the basement, lost all his friends, never met a lover. 
 
Or like he's been cursed to roam the land riding his bike carefully till the end of his days. 
 
I think I just made myself sad.
02/03/2009, 19:17:06
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Al
The guy at the end looks like he should be riding a recumbent.
02/03/2009, 20:26:33
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Chris Tucker: GOP Delenda Est!
What I don't get is why the Evil Spock from the Mirror Universe is doing in Virginia, with fake devil horns glued to his head, giving really bitching bikes to little dickheads like Danny? 
 
Am I missing something here?
02/03/2009, 23:45:44
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Fred Huffer
I like how this issue is a follow up to the solid bicycle tutorial found in Comics With Problems #6
02/04/2009, 09:33:19
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Owen Grubenhoff
Hey,  
 
I think this comic is really cool. Being a former deputy editor of a nationally published magazine, I must point out that the top of each page says "Danny and the Demoncyle" instead of "Demoncycle". You must fix this... 
 
Owen
02/04/2009, 22:00:41
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Ethan
Thanks, Owen! - Fixed.
02/05/2009, 18:47:09
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Pastor Bob
I think there's a page missing inbetween page 16 and 17 where a miraculously reborn Danny screams about finding Jesus, kisses a snake, and renounces his Devil worshiping ways once and for all. All to a big gospel choir.
02/13/2009, 09:22:10
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I'M SCREAMING
OMG 
What's with his PITCH BLACK ARM AND HAND on page 4? !
02/20/2009, 19:56:03
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Christopher
I think Danny's behavior goes beyond precocious kid land and straight out into "The Bad Seed" territory. 
 
I mean, that car hit the tree so hard both the driver and the passenger went straight through the windshield. Those two are severely injured, if not dead! 
 
And yet Danny just rides off, happy as a clam.
03/17/2009, 08:20:19
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L'il Phoenix
"Doubling on a bike is like suicide and murder!" 
GEEZ, don't be such a dick, Danny. You could just say "No, that's not safe" or somethin'. 
 
And what's with Danny at the beginning of the comic? Plowing down old people, causing violent car wrecks....this kid IS the spawn of Satan! Seriously, he's evil! I was scared!  
 
"And that's how Danny...lived happily ever after." 
...and grew up to wear the exact same Scooby-Doo lame-o '70s clothes he wore as a kid? Yeah, sounds like a real role model. Whoo boy. I can see this dude pedalling around Berkeley preaching about chemtrails and picking up aluminum cans.
06/05/2009, 07:56:39
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Warboss Dakkatoof
This is Daniel D. Skooter, but only his Aunt Prim calls him Daniel. His mother calls him Danny and so do his friends. His father calls him son. Quite often he cals him AN ASSHOLE.
06/17/2009, 13:13:33
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Delcat
The real message here seems to be "Parents, get your kids a prescription for Ritalin or they'll blaze a trail of murder and property damage across the neighborhood, honking their bike horns merrily as they plow down senior citizens."  Are we sure this wasn't commissioned by a pharmaceutical company? 
 
Alternate response, dealing with page 13: "I'll slow way, way down when I see kids and old people ahead...but the 21-65 demographic better watch out, I'm gonna scratch a notch in my handlebars for every mid-range adult bone I break!"
01/22/2010, 06:10:49
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Delcat
Aaand by 13 I mean 17 because I apparently cannot read.
01/22/2010, 06:11:55
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Riddler
"Oh Mom, Dad, I've learned to play safe and will ride carefully". 
 
"OK, son. Now... about those TWO MURDER COUNTS and for CRIPPLING AN OLD MAN, the police'd like to have a word with you!".
07/20/2010, 13:38:02
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