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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Tooth fairy
-------- Why did the good comic strips and the good sitcoms all go away?
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sure miss Calvin and Hobbes.Rose is Rose (for example) sure lost its magic . . . Get Fuzzy is usually pretty good. Running plotlines mean you'd have to come up to speed on it. random strip http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2009-04-10/
Yeah, I have a collection or two of Get Fuzzy, it seemed great for a while, but ultimately it didn't really hold my attention. I still enjoy Dilbert, despite all its cynicism, it is often funny.
Calvin & Hobbes ended at the right time, almost too late...it was starting to get too preachy.
Far Side was consistently good its entire run.
Peanuts I found a little uneven. I've been reading the Complete Peanuts series and it wasn't that great at first.
There aren't too many good ones these days partly because of the syndicates. They don't give a new strip a chance to develop, so no one wants to experiment. You get really safe stuff, like Get Fuzzy, Zits, stuff like that.
As Bill Watterson said Krazy Kat today would not last long in papers if it got in at all.
Thimble Theater was around ten years before Popeye even appeared*.
*If you aren't a Popeye fan, don't base your opinion on the Fleischer cartoons. The strips - at least those by creator E.C. Segar - are far superior.
Comic strips used to be a major draw, they were what papers used in the days when there was a lot more competition to get people to read their paper over that of their competitors. That's gone now so I guess that's why comics have such reduced importance and therefore reduced quality.
Good points. DVDs and video games have taken most of the market for comic strips and comic books, sadly.
I find, a little to my surprise, that Calvin does not now have *quite* the same magic it had in the eighties on first reading. Back then I was at least once *literally* on the floor laughing. (The one where Hobbes cuts Calvin's hair. "What do you mean, "oops"?")
I agree, it took years for Peanuts to hit its stride. (I am collecting the Completes also.)
Calvin: Psst... Susie! What's the answer to question four? Susie: Imadoofus. Calvin: Thanks! Calvin: * Calvin: The tooth fairy's gonna make you rich tonight, Susie.
7 comments:
sure miss Calvin and Hobbes. Rose is Rose (for example) sure lost its magic . . . Get Fuzzy is
usually pretty good. Running plotlines mean you'd have to come up to speed on it.
random strip
http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2009-04-10/
-eric
Yeah, I have a collection or two of Get Fuzzy, it seemed great for a while, but ultimately it didn't really hold my attention.
I still enjoy Dilbert, despite all its cynicism, it is often funny.
Oh, and Doonesbury rocks.
Calvin & Hobbes ended at the right time, almost too late...it was starting to get too preachy.
Far Side was consistently good its entire run.
Peanuts I found a little uneven. I've been reading the Complete Peanuts series and it wasn't that great at first.
There aren't too many good ones these days partly because of the syndicates. They don't give a new strip a chance to develop, so no one wants to experiment. You get really safe stuff, like Get Fuzzy, Zits, stuff like that.
As Bill Watterson said Krazy Kat today would not last long in papers if it got in at all.
Thimble Theater was around ten years before Popeye even appeared*.
*If you aren't a Popeye fan, don't base your opinion on the Fleischer cartoons. The strips - at least those by creator E.C. Segar - are far superior.
Comic strips used to be a major draw, they were what papers used in the days when there was a lot more competition to get people to read their paper over that of their competitors. That's gone now so I guess that's why comics have such reduced importance and therefore reduced quality.
Good points.
DVDs and video games have taken most of the market for comic strips and comic books, sadly.
I find, a little to my surprise, that Calvin does not now have *quite* the same magic it had in the eighties on first reading. Back then I was at least once *literally* on the floor laughing. (The one where Hobbes cuts Calvin's hair. "What do you mean, "oops"?")
I agree, it took years for Peanuts to hit its stride. (I am collecting the Completes also.)
Calvin does not now have *quite* the same magic it had in the eighties on first reading.I agree. It seems almost blasphemy to say so, but it's true.
Yes, it's weird. Last thing I expected.
But then I find this is true of *all* the strips and comic books I *loved* in the eighties. I guess something basic has changed.
Calvin: Psst... Susie! What's the answer to question four?
Susie: Imadoofus.
Calvin: Thanks!
Calvin: *
Calvin: The tooth fairy's gonna make you rich tonight, Susie.
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