Back with a FUNgeance

It's my turn again, and I'm back with a FUNgeance! It's like a vengeance, only fun. You know what else is fun? The Meekrat Entertainment Group. Now that my clumsy self-promotion is out of the way, let's mildly poke fun at comic strips. And, in some cases, endlessly nit-pick! FUNgeance indeed!

Annie, 7/23/09

I just wanted to say that "Little Orphan Annie" continues to be a far stranger comic strip than I ever imagined. I wish they'd put some of this weirdness in the musical rather than have her running around singing about tomorrow and whatnot. That would be a pretty neat musical.

Brainwaves, 7/23/09

The reason is that he was a prince and she was forced to do manual labor for her wicked stepmother, which did not involve her leaving the house or, really, anything that would allow her to meet the prince beforehand. Also, maybe he was inbred.

Eek, 7/23/09

That woman has no social graces at all. If you're dining with a potato, you don't order potato-based meals. I bet if she was having lunch with a cow or dinner with a chicken, she'd order veal and eggs, because she probably also likes eating the young of all species. Including human babies.

Maintaining, 7/23/09

Apparently, this strip's days are numbered. While I'm sorry that the cartoonist will be out of a job, I'm not that sorry because this strip annoys the heck out of me. Still, hope he finds work elsewhere. Also, this strip annoys me far less than "Mallard Fillmore", "Prickly City", and "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee", and the art in this one is far better than all of those (except, arguably, "Edison Lee") so why do those get to stay while this one bites the dust? The comics page... it's totally unfair. There is another strip I hate far worse than all of those, which I refuse to even say the name of. Oh god, it is a terrible terrible strip. So, yeah, good luck with your future endeavors, Nate Creekmore. Your strip annoyed me, but it certainly didn't deserve to die.

Scary Gary, 7/23/09

So they're insinuating (or flat-out telling us) that Frankenstein's Monster is a homosexual? He has a bride, you know... though this could allow for a modern re-imagining of the character where he's shunned both for his monstrous appearance and sexual preference, most likely in a overtly religious town. This would also add subtext to the flaming windmill imagery.

Shoe, 7/23/09

Yeah, let's use a decades-old TV show as a punchline. I realize that they had that movie a year or so ago, but still... just because something was culturally relevant once doesn't mean it still is.