The Ten Rejected Smurfs You Won’t Be Seeing
Just when you thought "Fraggle Rock" was going to be the last childhood property of the '80s to get a comic book revamp comes the announcement that the original Smurf comics are going to be reprinted in America for the first time in years.
Most American readers are probably more familiar with the cartoon version of the Smurfs, a merchandising juggernaut that saw everything from plastic figurines to theme park rides (anyone who grew up near King's Island likely has fond memories of their late, lamented Smurf boat ride), but the comics were a whole different matter. The first story to be reprinted, "The Purple Smurf," is an allegory about racism, and occasionally, the comics showed the friendly blue forest-dwellers engaging in activities that were downright un-smurfy. Stuff like, you know...
10. SCHRODINGER SMURF
It's never too early for kids to start learning about the paradoxes inherent in quantum mechanics (or "Smurfy mechanics, as Brainy Smurf called them), but the idea of a Smurf who existed in a theoretical state of being both alive and eaten by Gargamel (or possibly in branching parallel universes where both outcomes were valid) probably would've gone over the average reader's head. Which, now that I think of it, is a pretty clear example of the observer affecting the experiment's outcome.You have to admit, though, given Brainy's intellectual zeal and casual disregard for other Smurfs, this could've totally happened.
9. TASTY SMURF
8. RUBE GOLDBERGY SMURF
3. JUGGALO SMURF
1. ROBOSMURF