Bear with me, folks.
As you know, I've asked for the comics to be assigned, and when I looked at the comics this afternoon my brain just shut off.
Why the assignment? And apparently, Bryce is sending me comics he liked this week, and I do better with stupid comics, sucky comics. But I want somebody else to pick the comics. Do you know how many comics there are out there? Without the webcomics, even. At just one comics site, there are too many that suck over a given week or day, I don't know how Josh does it.
Which is why I've been telling him (Bryce, this blog's owner guy, not Josh) to pick a damn theme. I've picked Pluggers, and while I regret it every day, at least I don't have to wonder what the hell I'll blather on about today. (Smooth.)
Onto the comics. I want to get this over with.
If this sucks, well, it's his fault for giving me a bad assignment. And no, you can't give me grades!
Cul De Sac is the first one, from the 18th. I've only seen this comic here, and maybe at CIDU, but I'm too lazy to look it up now.
So I know nothing about this story line, if it is one.
This art is not bad, but, not to be mean, but it sounds like all the eyes would look like that. I can't draw for shit, so don't listen to me about art. Also, when I like a comic's writing, if the art isn't that great, it doesn't matter as much.
Maybe you have to get into this like you Get Fuzzy? I see a self-contained punchline, and it's actually pretty silly funny. Not too bad.
Frazz is next, from the 19th. I've seen Frazz at CIDU a lot, and it looks good. I probably should be reading it.
This confused me at first, because I know enough to know that Frazz works at a school, and there are no registers outside of the cafeteria (and maybe the bookstore at a big and rich enough high school) at school. But there are registers involved with heating systems.
Context is your friend.
Snowglobes actually suck. They are boring, because they just sit there. I mean, many things do, but they have this added factor of "shake me and it will snow" that promises excitement and it just doesn't deliver. I don't know, maybe I just haven't been exposed to enough in my life.
Plus, I want snow. It did snow on the first, I saw it, I did! But it didn't stick, something about it being above freezing.
God, I miss snow.
I didn't talk about the webcomics Bryce included last week, so I'll give it a try this time. He included 3, and I've only heard of one, though I recognize the title of the other.
Liberty Meadows from the 19th. I kind of recognize this one.
This doesn't disgust me, I'm no prude. I am, however, a girl, as my name can attest. Straight women and gay men read comics too.
Also, does that say that her top is made from a trash bag? Thank goodness she's a drawing, I don't think that would work.
Here is Amazing Super Powers, a webcomic I've never heard of before today, and never want to see again. The art bugs me, though that may have more to do with this strip's content, from the 18th:
See what I mean? I can see why this is funny. I also appreciate that this can only be done in a webcomic. But it's all so... ugh, which it's supposed to be, I guess. I mean, the dad gets off looking at birds while in his son's treehouse. And they have no pupils. And the birds in their world are ugly. Maybe that's what bugs me the most? If it was a normal looking bird, then I wouldn't mind.
This just creeps me the fuck out.
To cleanse the palate a bit, we have Pop Culture Shock Therapy up next, which I know and like. It's not the always funniest thing out there, but it's pretty good. This is from the 19th.
I liked this okay, until now, when I started overthinking it. No, I'm not saddened by the idea of living snow creatures (with the aid of magic). I miss Calvin and Hobbes! I love his snowmen!
To end on a high note, we have Cow and Boy from the 18th.
Oh my sweet lord that is funny. I love it. Mind cleansed, mood restored (I was in a blue mood earlier).
And all because of the socialism induced angry crunches.
Background info - don't read Cow and Boy, probably should, see it here and at CIDU, probably.
Well, we did it. When the print comics make me twirl my hair, I have learned I should focus on the webcomics. Or all of them.
Whatever.
Man, this took a long time and all I did was check to make sure that Liberty Meadows and Amazing Super Powers were webcomics. (Don't know why I did the second one, that would never fly in a paper.)
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