Comics Commentary
Two things: How stupid does Jim Scancarelli think his readers are?
That’s what’s been happening for two weeks!!! You don’t have to explain it… unless your target reader is the senile old man who constantly babbles about the “good ol’ days” and how youngsters these days have no respect. He might have forgotten the previous two weeks of “storytelling.” Just like he forgot all the terrible jokes that were old back before the original author died in 1969.
By royal decree, I command that, for all comics, when the original author dies, the strip dies too. That means that Peanuts needs to come out of the comics now. So does Dennis the Menace. Please replace them with good comics, like Pearls Before Swine.
All right, second thing: Is this:
supposed to remind me of this:
?
‘Cuz it does. It’s not funny, and that’s what I come to the comics for. Hence the term, comics.
*sigh* Time for cleansing:
April 30th, 2005 at 12:04 am
I don’t get it either. The Greenville News comics are nothing to be proud of - a lot of the authors that have been around forever seem to be just mailing it in. Seriously, I barely even smile when reading most of them. Just off-hand, the ones I think have gotten really bad (or were bad to begin with) are Hagar the Horrible, Heathcliff, Gasoline Alley, Family Circus, and Snuffy Smith. Ones on probation are Jump Start, Blondie, and Marvin. Maybe I’m just getting cranky, but Scott Adams and Dilbert seems to be stale from time to time anymore. The one I have yet to be tired of it Foxtrot - something about his sense of humor just strikes a chord with me. Maybe some of those others I mentioned strike that same chord with others. I just don’t get it, though
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Yes, I think to some extent it does matter which ones strike a cord with you. For example, I love Jump Start. Though you are right, most of the ones I remember laughing at when I was younger are no longer so laughable. The only non-funny comic that I enjoy is For Better or For Worse, and that is more because of an odd connection to my family than anything else.
May 7th, 2005 at 1:30 am
does it bother you that the bird had a denver omelette? isn’t that canibalistic?