Impulse request...

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In response to one of silverzeo's requests, here's a snippet from an early Impulse issue dealing with a supporting character's home life. While a little bit after-school-special, as TV Tropes says, Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.



Preston's been called into the Assistant Principal's office.



The Man asks Bart to try and get closer to Preston, and possibly find out what's going on. Bart instantly tells him that what's being asked is a ridiculous invasion of a student's privacy and more than a little gross for him Bart agrees.

Preston drags Bart along into the (nearby?) swamps of Manchester to go looking for a supposed local "monster." Preston claims he's going to use the footage to move to Hollywood and hit it big. Bart doesn't have the heart to tell him that dropping out of school is soooo cliched for a kid in his situation a bad idea. They notice some spooky fog lights and Preston panics and tips the boat. Bart struggles to find him amidst nasty bog water and meddlesome snakes.



Uh oh. Dad's pissed.

Bart sees Preston the next day.



My god... BACNE!!! okay, I'll stop...

So Bart heads out to the swamps to find Preston, who of course has run into the real swamp monster, which turns out to be a kid younger than both of them afflicted with severe acromegaly (who'll probably die within a year, Waid tells us, just to make Bart feel like more of a jerkass for defending himself from the rampaging youth).

There's some lame attempt at an "every son deserves to be loved" aesop (how is letting your kid wander around the swamp and get chased by amateur cryptozoologists being a loving parent?), which sends Bart into dark!Robin mode.







Yeah.



Well... that kid's gonna need some counseling. But then Bart's not really one to lecture people on mommy issues.



This was one of the first issues of Impulse I grabbed from the longboxes at my LCS waaaay back in like '96/'97.



7.6/23 pages from Impulse #6 under the cut.

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to be fair, Carol (his later girlfriend) did.