Dueling Analogs » Bonk’s Adventure

Bonkin’ Psychotic

Steve Napierski — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Did you know they released a Bonk sequel in 2006 called Bonk Returns? Did you know it won Best Platformer at E3 2006? I sure didn’t. Maybe that’s because they only released it for cellphones. Cellphones! Wouldn’t it be more profitable to release it for, I don’t know, any other format? You see, I don’t use my phone for games. I use it for making phone calls. That’s what I think cell phones are for. But then again, a lot of you text, too. And I just don’t get that.

The entire time I was putting this comic together I was thinking about a friend of mine who used to work for DNA Productions and did actually work on Jimmy Neutron. I wonder what she’s going to say about this comic?

Also, like how Goddard goes from being completely freaked out in panel five. To just going with the flow in the final one. That’s one lax pooch.

Let’s Get Retarded in Here!

Steve Napierski — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Bonk’s Advetnure was one of the games that made you want to have a Turbo Grafx 16. For those of us that never got one, fortunately the game was later released on other platforms (NES, Gameboy, Super Nintendo). Ah the Turbo Grafx 16, I’d love to do a comic about my favorite game for the system… Keith Courage in Alpha Zone, but even though it was the title that came with the console its a little to obscure.

Oh and in the last panel, when Bonk says “Jimmy” you may be thinking of the character Jimmy from South Park… that’s part of the reference. The second part is from Quantum Leap when Dr. Sam Beckett leaps into the body of a mentally retarded man named, that’s right, Jimmy. Fun obscure reference that’s not needed to get the punchline, but just adds a little more “huh?” to the experience.