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Sunday, January 11, 2026

COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Taz’s 40th Birthday Blowout!

In spite of being superhero-centric in my comic book reading growing up I have nothing but love for the Loony Tunes characters. So it’s always a treat when I come across a comic that gets the characters personalities right and they’re drawn” on model” (to use the term from animation). A lot of times you get what you paid for with free comics, but I was well surprised but just how good this K-Mart giveaway was. Written by JG Weiss and drawn by Oscar Saavedra. 1994 was the Tasmanian Devil’s 40th Anniversary and the comic was no doubt a promotion to help raise Taz’s profile before the debut of the Taz-Mania TV series. The pretext of the story is the gang taking Taz to K-Mart so he can pick out his own birthday present. I really don’t want to say anything nice about K-Mart, but I really have to give the company credit for being good sports about showing Taz trashing one of their stores and indiscriminately devouring their merchandise (without paying for it).

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