pig like Bucky does.
--- In [email protected], "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Rat and Pig are friends? It's much more complicated than that.
Pig
> is a spineless idealist who craves love and acceptance to the
> detriment of his own self-worth. Rat exploits Pig's need to be
loved
> and accepted. He's a sadist, a tyrant, who will trample the
> seedlings of compassion wherever they're found.
>
> God I loves me some Rat!
>
> Now if we could just get that giant duck to take out Mark Trail.
>
> --- In [email protected], "Ellen"
> <ellengoodman6@> 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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