Thursday Night Comic Fashion Review: Featuring Nerd Rage and Bad Punnery

Hello children, it is I: Stella Tamzarian, Action Librarian. Oh man, I totally saw the new Star Trek movie tonight and despite the complaints of the haters out there I LOVED it. I'm a Trekkie through and through and I'm very possessive of a certain green blooded fellow named Spock, and even I enjoyed the movie. I don't consider it cannon, rather more Fan Fiction-like considering it featured an alternate time line but that doesn't take away from its entertainment value. And it was VERY entertaining. I will knife fight anyone who claims otherwise! Prepare to feel my blade, nerds!

Onto the comics!

Daddy's Home, 5/4/2009
It speaks to the artist's abilities that he has to write out "tighty whities" on this man's underpants so we understand what the hell we're looking at. I wonder if its a violation of the decency of the comics pages to show a dude's underpants, but how do we explain Bill the Cat from Bloom County? He was constantly in tighty whities and that didn't diminish his alure. It almost looks like its supposed to be an editorial cartoon, where everything is labeled out so we can catch the oh-so subtle message intended. The white bar around his middle must represent the white middle class and how they're spending less in this economy, becoming "tighty whities" as they say. The evil looking woman clearly represents the Chinese Government laying claim over this depressed sector of American society, dooming us all. Or this is just a crappy comic. I haven't decided.



Frank and Ernest, 5/4/2009
WHAT??! Violation of Library procedures! No, you don't throw library books people! And that Librarian looks slovenly and unkempt. No, No I don't like this at all. The casual mistreatment of books in our American Libraries is a tragedy and "Frank & Ernest" is being quite heartless in their endorsement of tomfoolery, and bad puns.



Beetle Bailey, 4/30/2009
Man things aren't going very well in this relationship. Sarge doesn't look the least bit interested in Beetle's playful proposition of licking, he's just holding his toothbrush with the sullen look of a bored, broken man. The passion has left his life but he knows he can't do any better than Beetle so he stays in this loveless relationship. He would prefer the numbness of this dead relationship to the cold loneliness of being single and alone. Sarge, just dye your hair, get that snaggle-tooth taken care of and invest in a flannel shirt because you could make a killing on the Bear scene.

Dog eat Doug, 5/5/2009
Do ladies still use scrunchies? I remember using scrunchies well into the late 1990's and perhaps a few times in the early oughts but I'm pretty sure they've been phased out. In fact there was a whole debate in Sex and the City, itself an older show now, about how no woman in New York City wore scrunchies anymore. I'm sure this baby doesn't care about the fact that she's about 10 years behind on the fashion times but rather how fun it will be to eat and later pass 10 scrunchies over the next week. I can relate, it is pretty awesome.

Strange Brew, 5/7/2009
Wow, I've never seen such a stretch for a double entendre in all of my life. Is that even plausible? Did women walk around with random racks of baked goods in the Middle Ages? It seems like the correct joke would be "Whoa, look at the buns on her!" since she's both carrying buns on her rack and wearing her hair in buns. But you know what, I just don't have the energy to get angry right now. Congratulations on your Rack joke good sirs, I look forward to a contrived situation involving a man and some balls. Don't let me down.

So that's it people. Good night, have a good weekend and don't go crazy. Good night y'all!