the_plunk (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} the_plunk) wrote,@ 2009-02-07 17:09:00 |
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Newspaper Comics Saturday
The funniest comics in the newspaper these days are the dramatic ones. I defy you to read a random sampling of the soap opera strips and not want to read them tomorrow:
Did that guy just shoot a deer through the head? It seems newspapers are trying stay alive by importing a little of the old sex and violence that's all the rage on tv these days. I bet that makes Gary Larson extra angry about that time his editors wouldn't let him use the word "butt."
Speaking of sex and violence, my response to Mary Worth's upcoming expression of erotic feeling is identical to my reaction to seeing a deer get shot. I actually screamed a little louder, now that I think about it. Also, note that her skating partner is apparently a DC comics villain from the 60's. I'd bet even money that he's called "The Harlequin" and his first appearance was an issue of the Atom entitled "Die, Pagliaicci!." Yes, I read Mary Worth, and it's more entertaining than Garfield. I'm not ashamed.
This last one is a spider-man comic by Stan Lee, if you can believe that. The current story is that Electro tried to rob an armored car but forgot to close the back of it, so the money fell out when he drove away. Spider-man tried to fight him, but got knocked out by the flow from a fire hydrant that Electro opened. Spider-Man's big crisis right now is that a pigeon knocked his camera off a ledge and ruined the photos of Electro beating him up. Electro's sad because he can't pay the bills now and the stress of being a single-father costumed supervillain is getting to him, plus he has a cd player on his crotch. Spider-Man is great because it's simultaneously an insane fever dream and the most mundane thing I can imagine, like Mary Worth where they dress up in their underwear and fight each other.
The funniest comics in the newspaper these days are the dramatic ones. I defy you to read a random sampling of the soap opera strips and not want to read them tomorrow:
Did that guy just shoot a deer through the head? It seems newspapers are trying stay alive by importing a little of the old sex and violence that's all the rage on tv these days. I bet that makes Gary Larson extra angry about that time his editors wouldn't let him use the word "butt."
Speaking of sex and violence, my response to Mary Worth's upcoming expression of erotic feeling is identical to my reaction to seeing a deer get shot. I actually screamed a little louder, now that I think about it. Also, note that her skating partner is apparently a DC comics villain from the 60's. I'd bet even money that he's called "The Harlequin" and his first appearance was an issue of the Atom entitled "Die, Pagliaicci!." Yes, I read Mary Worth, and it's more entertaining than Garfield. I'm not ashamed.
This last one is a spider-man comic by Stan Lee, if you can believe that. The current story is that Electro tried to rob an armored car but forgot to close the back of it, so the money fell out when he drove away. Spider-man tried to fight him, but got knocked out by the flow from a fire hydrant that Electro opened. Spider-Man's big crisis right now is that a pigeon knocked his camera off a ledge and ruined the photos of Electro beating him up. Electro's sad because he can't pay the bills now and the stress of being a single-father costumed supervillain is getting to him, plus he has a cd player on his crotch. Spider-Man is great because it's simultaneously an insane fever dream and the most mundane thing I can imagine, like Mary Worth where they dress up in their underwear and fight each other.
