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Cathy 10/3/10
It's Cathy's last day and while I haven't been paying attention this week because the plot has been very, very stupid, it ended exactly the way I heard it was going to end.
Cathy goes out with neither a bang or a whimper but with irrevocable proof that she and Irving have been getting it on. If you think Cathy is a neurotic mess now, just wait until she has a child of her own. Hell, it looks like the child is already a neurotic mess.
Thanks for 34 Aack-tacular years.
The Elderberries 10/3/10
Speaking of retired comic strip characters, Charlie Brown and the comic strip Peanuts turned 60 yesterday. While Charles Schulz admitted he never had Charlie Brown kick the football there is a strip where Rerun may or may not have pulled away the football.
Lio 10/3/10
Lio says good-bye to Cathy (and The Boondocks and Opus, four and two years later respectively) by leaving Lio alone to man the comic pages by himself. You'll have your work cut out for you, Lio because I'm pretty sure Garfield won't help and Marmaduke will probably just maul you then have sex with your mangled body.
The Dinette Set 10/3/10
It's been awhile since I've showcased the awfulness that is The Dinette Set so here it is. Burn its awfulness into your eyes!
Brevity 9/27/10 - 10/3/10
A lot of people who were confused about this week's Brevity finally got the punchline today. But first here are the rest of the panels from the past week.
And finally....
Bravo, Brevity. Bravo.
Born Loser 10/3/10
I find it amusing that the kids on the other team hate Wilberforce so much that they are all willing to lose a game just so they can dogpile on and possibly injure him.
Is that chocolate milk Brutus is drinking?
8 comments:
Very good comments today. I guessed how Cathy would end which really disappointed me. But I haven't been a fan of Cathy for more years than I care to admit to :) I couldn't figure out where Brevity was going at first. About halfway through I caught on to what was happening. Loved the punchline. I gave up on Elderberries a couple of months ago but the one you posted today made me laugh. Thanks! Keep up the insightful work.
Brevity: both sweet and ironic--because, you know, the strip is named Brevity. Sure, it wasn't as drawn-out and repetitious as any Dick Tracy storyline from the past several terrible years, but...
Lio: Yeah, no points for guessing which character threw the rock threw the window, although that was more Riley's sort of thing. ...But isn't Lio also on the chopping block?
Elderberries: Created by the late great local treasure Phil Frank, this strip used to be about characters. Now it's about stereotypes and HURR HURR OLD PEOPLE AMIRITE and couldn't be a bigger bore if it tried.
There was one Peanuts comic I remember where Lucy didn't pull the football away. Charlie Brown missed and kicked her in the arm instead.
I'm pretty sure Cathy is giving Lio the middle finger. Although she only has 4 fingers.
These strips aren't covered in this entry, but I need somewhere to vent:
My Cage: (Sunday) Powers has laid out what passes for a game plan in his skull: bitter whining for two or three weeks, then pretend to be "classy" at the very end. And during the "bitter whining" period, he's ramping up the cheap references to other, better comics that will be around long after he's been forgotten.
I really can't wait to see what Powers thinks is "classy."
Luann: They're ALL setting Tiffany up for a lone encounter with a violent ex-con stalker, and NONE of them can see a problem with that? Jesus Christ.
Dick Tracy: I don't want to demonize the homeless, but it's equally foolish to portray the average street-flop wino (which Locher erroneously thinks represents the homeless) as a harmless Boy Scout.
occam's tazer, you're kind of a jerk and i don't like you.
Dear CoatThief: I really couldn't be bothered to give a toss.
Well now.
Wednesday's My Cage (the 10-06 "Golden Squishy Award" strip) proved me right about the bitter whining and cheap shots at other comics--more than I could've dreamed. If it wasn't over with at the end of the month, I'd suggest retitling it My Butthurt.
I don't know if the next two weeks will be funny (in a "drama queen on FAILBlog" sort of way) or just sad (in a "Bruce Tinsley making jokes about booze" sort of way).
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