After the film's production concluded, Lucas told Huyck and Katz about the comic book Howard the Duck, primarily written by Steve Gerber, describing
the series as being"very funny" and praising its elements of film noir and Absurdism.
Absurdism itself is a branch of the traditional assertions of existentialism,
pioneered by Søren Kierkegaard, and posits that, while inherent meaning might very well exist in the universe, human beings are incapable of finding it due to some form of mental or philosophical limitation.