Thursday, February 01, 2007
Ziggy Is Getting Too Preachy
Some random thoughts on comics:
First off, please check out this post from Joe Mathlete, who explains the Marmaduke comic each day on his website. It is one of my favorites.
The Lockhorns are the best. I hope that one day I can have a marriage as rock solid as Leroy and Loretta's. Sure they constantly fight, their food was shitty, but man do they fucking party. I mean it. For as much as they bicker with each other in the company of others, they sure do get invited to an inordinate amount of cocktail parties. I just wish I knew their secret.
Sometimes I talk myself into trying to get into reading those old timey, soap opera style comics like Mary Worth or Judge Parker. But they are always dense as fuck and the story moves at a snail's pace. Obviously a three panel strip can't have that much story development, but shit, throw a bone to potential new readers. The first panel will show a person on the phone talking to someone. The second panel shows the person that the people on the phone are talking about with the "voiceover" of the phone conversation. Then the final panel will have the words "Meanwhile in Borneo." and they'll show some dude being advanced on by a puma. How the hell is anyone supposed to follow that? We're not given any names or dates or anything. I mean am I supposed to be rooting for the dude or the puma?
They should make car decals of Calvin pissing on a person buying a Calvin Pissing sticker for those people who think they are better than everybody else, but are too stupid to realize that they aren't.
Finally, I agree with my buddy the Grodfather who thinks that Arlo 'n Janis have really been pushing the envelope lately. The creator Jimmy Johnson has really brought subtle sexual/inappropriate innuendo to a new level. And it hasn't gone unappreciated.
First off, please check out this post from Joe Mathlete, who explains the Marmaduke comic each day on his website. It is one of my favorites.
The Lockhorns are the best. I hope that one day I can have a marriage as rock solid as Leroy and Loretta's. Sure they constantly fight, their food was shitty, but man do they fucking party. I mean it. For as much as they bicker with each other in the company of others, they sure do get invited to an inordinate amount of cocktail parties. I just wish I knew their secret.
Sometimes I talk myself into trying to get into reading those old timey, soap opera style comics like Mary Worth or Judge Parker. But they are always dense as fuck and the story moves at a snail's pace. Obviously a three panel strip can't have that much story development, but shit, throw a bone to potential new readers. The first panel will show a person on the phone talking to someone. The second panel shows the person that the people on the phone are talking about with the "voiceover" of the phone conversation. Then the final panel will have the words "Meanwhile in Borneo." and they'll show some dude being advanced on by a puma. How the hell is anyone supposed to follow that? We're not given any names or dates or anything. I mean am I supposed to be rooting for the dude or the puma?
They should make car decals of Calvin pissing on a person buying a Calvin Pissing sticker for those people who think they are better than everybody else, but are too stupid to realize that they aren't.
Finally, I agree with my buddy the Grodfather who thinks that Arlo 'n Janis have really been pushing the envelope lately. The creator Jimmy Johnson has really brought subtle sexual/inappropriate innuendo to a new level. And it hasn't gone unappreciated.
