in comix history. Bucky is nowhere near as smart or cool as he thinks
he is, and Satchel is nowhere near as naive as he appears. Plus,
they're so well drawn. Satchel is the best comics pooch ever, and I
love the way Bucky is drawn. Darby Conley said that he found out that
when a cat is threatened, it folds its ears back "and I wanted to draw
a cat that was in a perpetually threatened state."
Bucky's meanness is part of the fun of FUZZY, because you know that
he's always going to get his comeuppance one way or another.
Where GET FUZZY loses me is when Darby tries to do extended story
lines. There was one about a year ago, about Bucky and the ferret, that
goodgawd, just went on and on and on and on. It just wasn't
consistently funny.
I was reading one of the COMPLETE PEANUTS books recently and Charles
Schulz said something about the perils of writing extended story lines.
PEARLS does that, too. The stories are never as good as the strips are
when they're funny.
I love both those strips but I also like MUTTS, which in many ways is
the antithesis of those. I just find it beautifully drawn and gently
funny... and I wouldn't want it to have "more of an edge" like FUZZY or
PEARLS, nor would I want those two strips to be more "sweet" like
MUTTS. That's where I differ with Gene: I think there's space for all
of them. I like the contrast.
--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I was just wondering if others feel
> the same way.
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