<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think Bucky and Satchel are two of the all-time greatest
characters
> 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.
>
I'm one of (the many, the proud, the) MUTTS-haters. Occasionally
the strip has something that makes me smile, but the balance leans
so far to the saccharine/preachy side that the excellent art is
completely overcome.
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