Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Nester's Adventures #29

At one time, Nintendo Power ran a monthly comic called "Howard and Nester", co-starring Howard Philips of Nintendo of America. The storylines gave hints for whatever the big game of the time was (typically the comic's theme was last month's cover game) with some mild joke or pun on par with comic strips of today. After Howard left for a job at JVC (in real life), the comic strip was renamed "Nester's Adventures", but the quality of the artwork started to slip (in my opinion) and without Howard, instead relying on random bit players (whether kids or video game players). This eventually proved the beginning of the end, and it was ended in the end of 1993. Nester has made a few comic appearances since (including 1997 and 2008) but not much since then.

This is a 2-page Nester's Adventures strip from Issue 29, and you can see that it's even less funny than H&N (though I have to admit, the Madonna line made me chuckle) and not much game hints either.

These aren't my scans and were taken from Retromags, but I do have the magazines.


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