The Daily Comics Review: Manic Monday

by Hal Bent

I came up with this great idea to kind of put together theme days, so today is Manic Monday. I guess it's manic since I go back to work after the weekend and rush around manic to get the column posted.  Or it's manic due to the content.  Or, based on today's comics, it's manic depressive.  

Love Is... by Kim Casali, conceived by and drawn by Bill Asprey:

Yeah, having your creepy nudist neighbors drinking tea and "watching" your house through binoculars is normal.  Who is to say anyone asked these Love Is weirdos to watch their house?  Who is to say the neighbors are away?  "Love is...a spot of tea and neighbors fornicating with the blinds open" is my guess.

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn:

That one is a filthy four fucker! I don't blame old #2 for being pissed.  Now, here's my confusion: the technician is not a number. It's a human being.  Animate numbers and humans on the same sphere.  How do #1 and #2 survive in this brave new world without appendages? Are they genetically modified pets? They have faces and certainly understand the language. They can reproduce and live among human kind. That said, how'd you like to be #2?  Bad enough to be a pet of the human overlords, but to be named after a code for going human excrement? Bad day gets worse, that's all I'm saying here.

Compu-toon by Charles Boyce:

I'm going to be nice and say this has to be a reprint from 1987 and that's why it's talking about using a fax machine as an office tool for gossip instead of someone on a computer open to an email program or lapstop, or texting from an iphone or smartphone.  I mean, I worked in an office in the mid 90's and no one gossiped on a fax machine.  Phone, email, text: take your pick.