Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine #81
In "The Color of Funny," Wanda Wunderbuss, the sharp-witted anchorwoman of the NIT Nightly News, hits a breaking point when she realizes her glamorous foreign assignments are a cover for something far stranger than just bad scheduling. After a shocking confrontation with her co-anchor Gary Grimlove—whose sudden, explosive self-destruction reveals he was a robot built to be the perfect bland frontman—Wanda demands accountability. With her usual wit and nerve, she refuses to be sidelined, threatening to expose NIT’s secret unless she gets the power to choose her own assignments and co-anchor. Written and drawn by Bob Bolling, with coloring by Barry Grossman and lettering by Bolling, this 1989 issue features a cover by Dan DeCarlo and Jim DeCarlo.
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The story of Wanda Wunderbuss, an anchorwoman for the NIT Nightly News. Secretly engaged to the handsome but dumb co-anchor, Gary Grimlove, Wanda begins to wonder why she's constantly sent out on dangerous assignments in foreign countries while Gary is given all the cushy jobs. When she's finally had enough of the unequal treatment, she hits Gary, who self-destructs: he was a robot created by NIT to be the perfect pretty, bland anchorman. Wanda takes the loss of her fiancé in stride, and threatens to reveal NIT's secret unless she is allowed to pick her own assignments and her own co-anchor.
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