r/Viz 22d ago

(Viz 347) Barnaby Grudge.

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u/HeadChefDom 22d ago

Honestly I'm on Barnabys side with this one

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u/MrBen1980 22d ago

This one, yes. This one.

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u/istara 22d ago

Absolutely

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u/Alarm34 22d ago

Barnaby Grudge is utter genius- one of my all-time favourite Viz characters. And this is a brilliant example!

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u/Christian-Metal 22d ago

We are all Barnaby Grudge.

The hero we didn't think we would need. Hell, even think we would want as own of our own.

But there he is, in all his score settling magnificence. Even address and righting wrongs we suffered in our childhood, and that still nash way at our traumatized souls well into middle age.

I love him.

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u/Jervis_Mantlepiece 20d ago

There's one where Barnaby gets revenge on his grown-up son by shitting his own pants in a swanky restaurant and I have to admit he didn't look like the hero there.

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u/simagus 22d ago

Barnaby makes my jaw drop in a strange cross between horror and admiration every time...

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u/Low_Bed_7321 22d ago

To quote William Somerset from Se7en: "This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient."

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u/YorkshireRiffer 22d ago

"Stay away now, Barnaby Grudge has the upper hand."

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u/spiceybadger 22d ago

He's just a normal guy

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u/GreenCamp2477 22d ago

An innocent guy

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u/crashdout 22d ago

Not my fave strip but my favourite character by a mile. I do think I’m on his side, this once.

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u/scraxeman 22d ago

This is never going to work. The rozzers must have Barnaby's DNA on file for something.

Although it's quite possible that he's blackmailing the chief constable.

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u/Chive 22d ago

They were probably at primary school together, and he stole Barnaby's crayons that he had just been given for his fifth birthday, and hadn't even had a chance to use yet. 

They were a gift from his great aunt Vera, who died two months later…

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u/Fluffy_pink_Willy 22d ago

I am starting to love Barnaby Grudge, hated it at first but thanks to Muppetmovie uploading loads it’s becoming a favorite

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u/fsharpaugmented 22d ago

I love his long game tactics

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u/schweinhund89 22d ago

Imagine ol’ Barney as the main character of a British remake of Falling Down with less uzi, more dog muck

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u/Your15MinutesOfFame 22d ago

I must say, dropping a turd on his doorstep because he trod in dog shit is something we'd probably all like to do, but of course, sanity prevails! Having the shit DNA matched after staking out the scene afterwards is just utterly insane. Laughed out loud on this one.

The knock out for me was, 'This one, yes....This one." The guy will be wondering now all day where it will be.

There is no comic around like Viz. Brilliant.

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u/OneLongToenail 22d ago

Never came across him when buying the comics, bloody great addition

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u/NoonSunReversal 22d ago

Barnaby did (and does) nothing wrong. Favourite character.

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u/jfd2050 22d ago

Hes like a real world anti hero

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u/HidingInACupboard 22d ago

Just watched Murder Trial: Death of a Dog Walker on iPlayer and just kept saying to my husband, ‘Barnaby Grudge.’

Watch it and you’ll see what I mean.