Great, now that I've analyzed it, I probably won't enjoy it any more, thanks Ellen...
(Just kidding! See how now that last sentence isn't as funny any more, now that I've explained...oh, forget it.)
-Max H.
On 6/5/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess it's a fine line, but mean-spirited and violent are 2
different things. The shark wants to kill the fish, the crocodile
wants to kill the zebra, I'm actually OK with that. These are
predatory animals. But rat and pig and zebra are friends, they
aren't mean to each other most of the time. You actually get the
impression they enjoy each other's company. Get Fuzzy is really in a
class by itself as far as the sheer nastiness, of Bucky
specifically. Even strips that have a mean streak don't usually have
housepets turning against their owners and fellow pets. Robert is an
unlikeable schlump, but he isn't inherently mean and nasty. Just the
cat. I mean even Garfield isn't that obnoxious! I guess there are
strips I like less due to their sheer pointlessness or stupidity, but
I'm just considering the nastiness factor at the moment. Not that I
really care about a comic strip, I was just wondering if others feel
the same way.
>
>
> It's that mean-spiritedness, along with that in "Pearls Before
Swine,"
> makes it one of the few comic strips I consistently find funny. All
> the other stuff is most often treacle or tripe. I'll only read them
> when I have a print version since they take all of 2 or 3 seconds to
> skim through.
>
> I want Boondocks back now. The tryout comics they've been running
are
> weak... I forget what the name of the first one that they ran was,
but
> it was basically "A Different World" in comic strip format.
>
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