Bungee-Man was a comic I started in the 6th grade. It was a silly comic with stick figures on graph paper, which made drawing the ‘boxes’ quite easy. I had created dozens of these comics and compiled them into a single blue folder. Unfortunately that folder has since been lost. It disappeared sometime late in highschool and it’s location still haunts me to this day.
Bungee-Man was a simple story of a man who tripped on his cat one day and fell out of a window. He fell in a truck of toxic waste and developed the ability to stretch his limbs. Poor and with no creativity whatsover, he borrowed a towel from the Ramada Inn for a cape, some cardboard for a chest emblem, and set off on whacky adventures against some painfully ”original” villains. Some of these villains included his arch nemesis, Bum Man, who after a freak accident couldn’t wear pants (he wore skirts) and had the ability to control… trash cans. There was also Gadget Master, a scientist with a robot claw; Fatboy, who was the size of a small city; Merman, a confused seafarring prince; Fire Lord and Cyclone, two aliens who… God, I don’t even know. There was plenty more but you get the idea of how bad they were. There was even an epic full colored tale of an adventure combining elements that closely resembled Super Mario World and Secret of Mana.
Fast forward 13 years and Mike liked the concept of Bungee-Man so much he decided to adapt it into something… well, decent. This is the story we will be starting on Sunday.
This weekend I will share some very old Bungee-Man work. I may have lost most of the original comics but there’s still a few things that managed to survive the years. It will be interesting to compare this old stuff with the upcoming new stuff.
