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After "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart", Bob Newhart returned to televsion with "Bob". But the third time was not the charm and this show failed to catch on with viewers. Bob was a comic book artist (not a newspaper strip artist but an actual honest-to-goodness comic book artist) who drew a book called Mad-Dog for the fictional Ace Comics. This comic has the gimmick of being drawn by that fictional tv character.
I vaguely remember that show so I can't really comment on that. But I can tell you about this book. According to an "editorial page" filled with inter-company memoes and post-it notes, Bob and his editor are at odds at how this comic should be done. The result is a flip book with an extreme, feral version of Mad-Dog on the front and Bob's version on the back. Bob's version is kind of like a Silver Age hero. He's a veternarian (professional scientist) with a sidekick named Buddy and a cute secretary.
The "modern" side is written by Evan Dorkin and shows MD breaking up a car-jacking. The news reports about a new vigilante in town and the cliffhanger involves a powerful businessman taking an interest in the things being reported. It's very '90's and you almost feel like you weren't meant to like it much. (My apologies to the creative team if that's not the case. LOL!)
The side drawn by Bob (with help from Ty Templeton of Batman Adventures fame) is about a flying saucer that visits Earth. The inhabitants are cat people from the Omega Galaxy. They say that they want to live here peacefully, but MD's canine senses sniff out their true desire to dominate. Being a vet in his alter ego, he negotiates a retreat when the head cat can't cough up a hairball. This story is fun and if you like DC's Adventures line of comics, you will get a kick out of this. MD's side-kick is a true smart alec. After MD poisons some guards and tells Buddy they'll be okay, Buddy replies "Provided that their alien physiology is near enough to ours that it dosn't react violently to a potion designed for Earth people, huh, Mad-Dog?"
Check it out.
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