Comic Strips

[chonies]

I remember being upset when Gasoline Alley was pulled from the paper, but only because it was my daily trainwreck. I assumed it had been cancelled altogether, until I travelled somewhere and lo and behold! still around.

[jennipoo]

petals said:

I know where you're coming from, mrpancake. I hate that strip.

Here in southeastern Virginia, they have a pretty well done local paper with a feedback area on the second page. Regularly, the whole feedback section is full of people complaining about the comic strips.

They complained when Beetle Bailey was taken out. And they wanted to know what had happened to Blondie. And they all seem to have a special rage for the Boondocks (which I love!), but no one ever complains about that stupid Mallard Fillmore.

Don't forget... bring back Get Fuzzy!! God, I hate those old farts who complain about the comics in the Daily Press.

[livviebway]

Is Garfield retiring or something? What is this bizarre story going on... A real PLOT? Jon getting a kiss from Liz? Huh?

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Not only is it a real plot, but it continued from the Saturday strip to the Sunday strip. I feel like I'm in comic strip bizarro world.

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Pretty strange to see Garfield not following the sitcom rule that, by the last panel, nothing has changed from yesterday.

I'm becoming obsessed with just how freaky the characters on Rose is Rose really are. There is some serious substance abuse going on there. In a recent strip, Rose and her husband sneak out to the front yard late at night to blow bubbles. When they run out of soapy water, they proceed to whip out hula hoops and play with them until dawn. Now, today, the little kid opens up a beach ball so that his little friend can inhale the vapor inside it. This is pretty potent stuff, as the kid immediately starts hopping up and down while surrounded by hallucinations of a candy cane, a rainbow, a flower, a musical note, and a beachball.

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calvin said:

Pretty strange to see Garfield not following the sitcom rule that, by the last panel, nothing has changed from yesterday.

I'm becoming obsessed with just how freaky the characters on Rose is Rose really are. There is some serious substance abuse going on there. In a recent strip, Rose and her husband sneak out to the front yard late at night to blow bubbles. When they run out of soapy water, they proceed to whip out hula hoops and play with them until dawn. Now, today, the little kid opens up a beach ball so that his little friend can inhale the vapor inside it. This is pretty potent stuff, as the kid immediately starts hopping up and down while surrounded by hallucinations of a candy cane, a rainbow, a flower, a musical note, and a beachball.

Bwah! I never thought of that before but it actually makes sense. I always figured they were going for whimsical but now everytime I will read it I will think the artist is on an acid trip. It is still one of my favorite strips. Your theory makes it even more so now.

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It adds a whole new level to the strip when you look for the drug connection. For example, the "Midnight Bubbler Society" strips (check [blue]The strips from the 18th and 19th[/blue]. The parents wait until midnight, when the kid is asleep, to slip into the garage with his stash, prominsing to replace what they use. They then stand there in the dark blowing bubbles until the entire stash is gone. Once they run out of "bubble juice", a bleary-eyed father notes that he is still up for anything, resulting in a night-long hula hooping session.

And in today's strip, Mimi looks suspiciously like Hans Moleman from The Simpsons.

[Mikal]

Bumping if only to rage about whatever is going on over in Sally Forth.

First, Sally's mom chooses to go to their house for three weeks - through Thanksgiving - which makes Sally and Ted stressed, since she is supposedly a bitch. Then we meet Sally's Mom, who is apparently the Mother From Hell. She insults Hilary by thinking she's still in 5th Grade, accuses Ted of being an ass basically since Sally has a job and not at home playing homemaker, and then, since she's a arrogant woman, assumes the tension around the table today is due to Ted cheating.

Is this supposed to make Sally and Ted more sympathetic? Cuz it's working. Has her mom ever been in the strip and was she this rude and annoying?

[esoterica]

Bumping this up because I just discovered You Damn Kid and I had to share.

[Mouse]

I really wish that Aaron McGruder would start doing Boondocks again. I love, love, LOVE that strip. It's one of a few that make me laugh my ass off on a regular basis.