Saturday Specials

by Hal Bent

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! It's 45 degrees and rainy, so any cookout, lawn mowing, or driving up to Boston and strolling around the city this weekend is not looking like its in the cards. Oh well, more time for me to read comics! 

Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein:

I fixed the toilet once.  I think this scene played out exactly...except I used more creative language (I like to create swears out of words used in odd sequences and non-sense words like I was Lewis Carroll), and my son wears glasses and isn't a smug shmuck like this kid, and my wife is much more attractive than this character.  Hmm, maybe it was nothing like this. 


Animal Crackers by Fred Wagner:

What the heck is this?  A grazing animal is approached with a bad pickup line? That's the comic strip? That's the joke? Where is the humor?  This comic wasn't funny 30 years ago when I was a kid, and here it is taking the place of some decent comic by a young talent.  


Luann by Greg Evans:

I love TJ's hands-on-hips fabulous pose in the first panel. The stank line coming from the engine in panels one and two.  The plastered on smile on TJ's face not changing in all three panels...doesn't change that I have no interest if he cons Brad into fixing his truck, I just want to see the menu!  Is it crepes? I bet it's crepes.