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''Tales of the Beanworld'' is an independently published comic book, created by Larry Marder. ''Beanworld'' features stories about the life and times of the Beans, minimalistic characters which Marder has been drawing since childhood.〔Larry Marder, ''Beanworld: Wahoolazuma!'', Dark Horse Comics, February 2009.〕 The stories borrow concepts from various world mythologies, popular concepts of ecology, and pop culture. The first issue was published in 1985, and the series ran 21 issues until 1993. The first four issues were printed independently (under the imprint The Beanworld Press). Starting with issue five, the title was released by Eclipse Comics. A total of four book collections were released, reprinting issues #1–16. The series was revived in February 2009 and is now published by Dark Horse Comics in deluxe hardcover editions.〔()〕 ''Wahoolazuma'' (February, 2009) reprinted the first nine issues.〔Larry Marder, ''Beanworld: Wahoolazuma!'', Dark Horse Comics, February 2009.〕 The second volume, ''A Gift Comes!'', came out in July, 2009, reprinting the remaining twelve.〔Larry Marder, ''Beanworld: A Gift Comes!'', Dark Horse Comics, July 2009.〕 A new one-shot comic came out in December, 2008. A third hardcover volume, ''Remember Here When You Are There!'', came out in November, 2009, with all new material. Marder says that this completes the "Springtime" cycle of Beanworld stories. Further volumes are planned. ==Characters== *Beanish: an artist bean, who creates the “Fabulous Look•See•Show”, artwork for the other beans to appreciate *Mr. Spook: the Beanworld hero, who leads the Chow Sol'jer Army and performs heroic deeds. In addition, he is the leader of the Gunk'l'Dunk Gang. *Professor Garbanzo: an inventor/scientist bean who also functions as the Beans' primary manufacturer and supplier of tools and weapons. *Hoi-Polloi Ring Herd: inveterate gamblers, who use “chow” as money. During attacks by the Chow Sol’jer Army, the Hoi-Polloi shove their individual stores of chow into collective piles, then link arms with their neighbors in a circular formation to defend the chow. The Chow Sol'jer Army steals whatever portion of one ring herd's chow they can carry, and leave behind a “sprout-butt.” The Hoi-Polloi turn the sprout-butt into more chow, which they divide among themselves. The beans take the supply of chow back to their part of the Beanworld and consume it. *Gran’Ma’Pa: a large, mute, mostly immobile being resembling a tree which is the beans’ spiritual guardian and physical parent. Among other things, Gran'ma'pa produces sprout-butts for the beans to take on Hoi-Polloi chow raids. *Boom’R Band: three musician beans, who play tunes for the other beans to enjoy and dance to. Music and dance are both referred to as "boom'n." In certain circumstances, their music can perform additional tasks, such as healing injured beans, and in the case of the band’s rhythmist, in the curing stage of Gunk’l’dunk. *Pod’lPool Cuties: Baby Beans. *Chow Sol’jer Army: beans which don’t have any other specific task form the Chow Sol’jer Army, who get chow from the Hoi-Polloi. The Army is divided into two squads: * *Spear Fling’n Flank’rs: small elite squadron who wear special masks. They attack and painfully disable the Hoi-Polloi of a ring using spears formed from a Slat and a Chip. They are assisted in this by Mr. Spook and his Trusty Fork (and its successor weapon). * *Chow Pluk’rs: they move in after the Spear Fling’n Flank’rs have done their job, grabbing the newly abandoned chow using Pluk’r Wands formed from a Slat and a Hoop. *Gunk’l’Dunk Gang: a small, semi-secret society within the Chow Sol’jer Army, whose function is to clean out the “gunk” from the bottom of the Chowdown Pool and process it into Gunk’l’Dunk, a useful adhesive. *Heyoka: A shamanistic bean, who does everything backwards. Appropriated from the Lakotah Heyoka tradition, as is the beans' characteristic cheer of "hoka-hoka-hey". *Goofy Jerks: shiny wormlike beings from The Big•Big•Picture, with large heads, buck teeth, dark glasses, and hats (which illustrate their specific functions). Goofy Jerks usually travel in threesomes and perform specific functions stated by the second word in their name.The first ones seen in the series were the Goofy Service Jerks, which brought “Reproductive Propellant” to Gran’Ma”Pa, leading to the birth of the baby Pod’lPool Cuties. Later in the series (but earlier in the continuity, via a flashback / historical tale) were seen a customer satisfaction research team (Goofy Survey Jerks), a medical squad (Goofy Surgical Jerks), and later in both the series and in continuity, a police squad (Goofy Surveillance Jerks). Their leader and judge is the enormous Goofy Sermon Jerk. *Dreamishness, a sun-like being (possibly the Beanworld's actual sun!) with whom Beanish has daily, secret colloquies. By dancing, he finds he can prolong the ecstatic moment when she pauses directly overhead. Dreamishness can't stand the Goofy Jerks, who refer to her as a "hot babe". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tales of the Beanworld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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