Hey everyone! Zachary, the Stupid Inventor, here again for this Wednesday's Comic Review. Big thanks to everyone who voted for me in the cartoonist contest, I find out the winner tomorrow! Sorry for the late post, but I had Jury Duty today.... yeah, but now that that's over with, on to the review:
The Bad:
Brevity: This is just your typical "goldfish have bad memories" joke with ritalin thrown in there. I was just shocked by how lame this is... must have been a close deadline.
Reality Check: Anti-Social convention and nobody shows up.... Weight Watchers next to an All You Can Eat place... this gag ranks up there with the same level of lameness. Again I'm shocked by the lack of originality... I don't mind a bad strip every once in a while, all 365 can't be gems, but at least be originally bad!
6 Chix: Listen readers, I don't have a degree in Comic Reviewology, I try to analyze the comics page because I hope to one day be in it and want to learn as much as I can, either about the timing and construction of a gag, or the placement and style of the drawing. So feel free to disagree and discuss my thoughts and theories in the comments... that being said, I thought the the speech balloon in this strip looks like it's pointing to the ring, which I think would make for any interesting strip... also, if the women is a gold digger, shouldn't the guy look more rich? Again these are just my thoughts... I might just be over analyzing.
Better Half: The joke itself isn't funny, but the bloodless Swiss cheese look of the guy in this strip totally creeps me out....
Mary Worth: I know nothing about these soap opera strips, but I skim them when I do these reviews, and I must say this is probably the most depressing comic strip I have ever read.... why do people like this stuff?
The Weird
Dennis The Menace: I'm not even going to comment on the humor, or lack there of, in this strip... my random nitpick here was why they chose to make Dennis ride a PINK power wheels.. I mean it's not such a big deal, it just looks weird, no?
Pros and Cons: This isn't a bad strip, the humor is a bit weird. The weird section of my reviews can feature either good or bad strips... I just learned about "denouncements" in gag construction, that's the stuff after the punchline, here it's the "Don't you think?" line... it just doesn't seem necessary here, no? Shouldn't they have just made the punchline of meat is expensive in the third panel? Just a thought....
Spiderman: I'm more of a DC person, so perhaps I'm not familiar with Iron Man's construction or Spiderman's web, but couldn't Iron Man just WIPE THE WEB OFF? This just seems like a stupid attack on Spiderman's part, no?
The Good:
Free Range: There were a number of strips today commemorating Jane Goodall's 50th anniversary of working with the chimps... which is weird, no? Someone must have sent all the cartoonists a reminder... Anyways, this one was by far my favorite. First, because there's a box in the bottom explaining the context. Second, because not only is the feces joke disgustingly funny, but the chimps expressions of happiness make the joke so much funnier... great writing and art working together is a winning combination! Bravo...
Deflocked: This was a funny strip, but had the sheep said at the end "These pretzels are making me thirsty!" then it would be a double Seinfeld reference and I would have laughed a lot more, but that's just me....
Ollie and Quentin: Love this XYZ gag... :D
The Argyle Sweater: It's funny how I think the reason why most people are talking about this strip is not because of the gag but because of the famous faces on the missing signs.... I'm guessing Syndicate Editors normally frown on cannibalism jokes, but the awesomeness of all the comic references let this strip go through.... The cartoonist should have tried to at least get in contact with Mark Tatulli of Lio to maybe have a witch kidnap Lio in that day's comic... it would totally fit in Lio's world and would have made the comics page a much more interesting place.
Anyways, that's it for me!
I'll be back again next Wednesday, until then, keep reading the comics! :D
Zachary
Stupid Inventor
6 comments:
Iron Man probably can pull off the webbing, but unless he's specially prepared for it, it'll just get stuck to his hand. So it's really just a momentary distraction for Iron Man, but still not a totally wasteful move on Spider-Man's part.
Good point!
But can't he use those blasters in his hand?
And I'm sure his helmet has some kind of thermal scanning or whatever so he can still see enough to fly... I don't know, we'll find out tomorrow how effective the webbing was! :D8
If Mary Worth's the most depressing strip you've ever read, you obviously have been avoiding Funky Winkerbean, AKA Funky Cancercancer AKA Oh For God's Sake Just Swallow The Pills Already.
Or Dick Tracy, just for the horrible depths to which the quality of art and writing have sunk...
Ha, I do read Funky, but that one is so sad and depressing that I actually laugh at it... That Mary Worth strip just made me want to kill myself... :D
"Everything's DARK!!"
When Spidey and Iron...y had a falling out in the "real" Marvel Universe, Spides was on the verge of getting his arse ironed when he (quite literally) closed his eyes and hit Irons with everything he had in terms of webbing.
When he opened his eyes, Iron Pants was literally cocooned in more webbing than Spider Pants could possibly ejaculate in a month*, let alone over the course of a minute or so.
It didn't stop Iron Cup for long, just enough to let them trade accusations, insults, threats, and deep shocking revelations...you know, the usual Marvel chatter.
*Does Spider Guy still have "organic" webbing, or did he revert back to the webshooters when he cut a deal with Satan? ...You know, the invisible devices capable of somehow instantaneously firing a monofilament the length of a city block with pinpoint accuracy despite having no notable means of propulsion, that he INVENTED IN HIS BASEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL. ALONG WITH THE WEBBING ITSELF.
HONK HONK
@Mudkip Barbeque
Thank you for that awesome comment, I love it when people have an encyclopedic knowledge of comics... made my day!
Oh and I decided to wear my Spiderman t-shirt today... :D
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