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Read more...Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. To make it up to you, here's some comics from the past two days.
Thursday
Birdbrains
It looks like the Birdbrains revolution that supposedly began last week has ended as quickly as it began.
Frank and Ernest
This is really stupid, unless a house being under water has a second meaning I'm unfamiliar with. Perhaps something to do with mortgages? Even so, it's pretty lame to put such a phrase into your comic. Now, if it is the first meaning, they could have just shown the roofs of the houses jutting out of the water, or perhaps put the pigs and wolf in scuba helmets. Also, the pigs are out of the house. The wolf could just snatch them up.
Ziggy
I'm pretty sure this is an actual thing.
Friday
Mary Worth
I usually avoid commenting on the soap strips, since Josh Fruhlinger does a much better job, but I fear for Jeff's life now that he's decided to openly mock Mary. She'll meddle you to your grave now!
Tom the Dancing Bug
I like this comic sometimes, when it's being more absurd than political. Like today. The stand-out strip in this installment of the semi-regular Super-Fun-Pak Comix is Darthfield, though I like how the punchlines to all the dog comics are just the owners of the dogs saying their canine's name. And the Idiot Time Traveler continues to amuse me.
Spider-Man
I'm actually quite sad that the marriage didn't go through. Not surprised by any stretch of the imagination, as I did do a blog about this strip for several years and learned that the status quo will always revert.
Well, that's it for me this week. For more of my stuff, check out the Meekrat Entertainment Group.
Hey everyone! Zachary the Stupid Inventor here with today's comic review!
Sorry I wasn't able to do a review last week, I was with the fiance setting up our future apartment and was away from the computer all day... anyways, lets begin shall we?
Nitpicks:
Love Is: Dean's Comic Booth loves to photoshop Love Is to make fun of it, and today's panel is just too easy....
Nancy: This is something I struggle with when drawing my Missed The Boat comic for my local newspaper... I have to first repeat a characters personality if I'm going to be using that for the punchline. Notice how here Sluggo adds 'the rich kid' to set up the gag. That and the fact that they felt the need to explain that it's the Monopoly guy over-explained the joke and made it not funny, just my opinion.
The big news today is that the punchline in today's Dennis the Menace is the same as an old Pearls Before Swine strip. Obviously I don't think it was stolen on purpose, it's just interesting when these things happen. Here's a link to the Pearls Before Swine blog post about it: http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/two-cartoons-living-or-dead/
Daddy's Home: Another nitpick here, the pacing in this strip is off. The "it's worse than the WNBA" line should have been put in the third panel, and then you have the reveal of the tall and angry woman in panel 4. It's weird having the setup and reveal in the same panel, and the cartoonist had the room to put the dialogue in panel 3. just my opinion, what do you guys think?
Lio: Just a minor nitpick here, I think Mark Tatulli drew Lio's hand too small in the last panel under the money, it took me a while to realize he was under there. I guess if the pile was too small we would just think he got a lot of money and wasn't crushed to death.
The Good:
Heart Of The City: Another awesome Mark Tatulli strip, I'm loving this storyline, MAD magazine rules! Also, Mark Tatulli did a video podcast interview on Tall Tale Radio, check it out! http://talltalefeatures.com/2011/01/25/episode-110-mark-tatulli-video/
Brewster Rockit: This science fair storyline has been pure gold, Brewster Rockit is one of my favorite strips on the comics page.
Boomerangs: I believe this is the first time I'm posting this comic, but talking as someone who recently got engaged, I can really appreciate this strip.
Anyways that's it for me, let me know what you think in the comments!
Until next time!
Zachary
Stupid Inventor
This just in: Dick Locher will be wrapping up his 30 year run on Dick Tracy in March. What does this mean for the strip? Well, it's hard to believe it could get much worse.
Dick Tracy, 1/25/2011
I remember at some point in the mid/late 70s DC comics reprinted a bunch of classic strips, and they still hold up better than, well, today's. Max Allan Collins, who also wrote the excellent Ms. Tree comics series, wrote Dick Tracy for a while in the early 90s, and it was pretty good, but it's been a suck fest since he left.
Comics Curmudgeon really hit the nail on the head with this random Dick Tracy strip generator. It doesn't matter how you slice it....
Rip Haywire, 1/25/2011
I had to put the "collar of shame" on one of my Border Collies recently. It was very sad. And hilarious.
Brewster Rockit, 1/25/2011
This strip has been on a tear lately, but it's strange to see "Aahhh my" in Brewster without it being followed by "spleen."
Pearls Before Swine, 1/25/2011
He's a sick man sometimes. I hope he never changes.
Freshly Squeezed:
Today is a meh kind of day. Meh weather. Meh comics.
Calvin and Hobbes, 1/18/2011
On the bright side, Calvin and Hobbes has been running the “Snow Goon Saga.” Until today’s suck fest of freezing rain it was pretty appropriate for the weather, and is also one of my favorite Calvin story lines.
Funky Winkerbean, 1/18/2011
As far as Funky Winkerbean goes, the current storyline about Wally getting a service dog has been pretty good. (Of course, I may be a little biased when it comes to anything involving dogs.) With regards to today’s strip, all service dogs (regardless of breed or size) are allowed to ride with their humans on planes in the U.S. So today’s strip is a little off with regards to the flight attendant’s reaction to Buddy. Then again, airline personnel aren’t universally recognized for having a clue when it comes to such matters.
I also doubt that they train “down” to mean “hide under a seat”, but that’s the trainer in me talking. It’s a day in Funky Winkerbean and no one died or was emotionally scarred. Let’s declare victory and move on.
The Amazing Spider-Man, 1/18/2011
After a couple of homages to Kirby, the monster was reduced to a cowed ruin by a swat on the nose and we are now in the process of chickening out from the marriage of Aunt May and the Mole Man. My money is on some environmental condition preventing May from living underground.
Bliss, 1/18/2011
Because complete tools are always hilarious.
Girls and Sports, Who Cares
The real question is, how does a guy who spends all night watching College Basketball and Sportscenter meet girls, let alone a wife?
Read more...I'm not a fan of the Golden Globes. Frankly, why would I want to watch a bunch of movies and people I've never heard of when a bunch of awards that essentially mean nothing when they win Oscars and Emmys a few months later? Anyway, onto today's comics and don't forget to check out my site everyday and feel free to follow me on Twitter.
Herman:
First off, some nitpick things:
Eek!
The Thing didn't really name himself. Well, he did, but he was so down-trodden by the fact that he was now a craggy misshapen monster that he latched onto what Sue Storm called him when the Fantastic Four's spaceship crashed: a thing.
Graffiti
The card game got its name from actual war. I realize this comic is trying to be clever and pithy, but it usually fails pretty hard.
Meaning of Lila
Not really a nitpick, but it sort of is. I'm going to try not to bring this up every time Meaning of Lila mentions something in or around Cleveland, OH but it's really weird seeing it mention things I know, for a fact, are real.
Next, the evolution of a comic strip. On Wednesday, this was Birdbrains:
...and so it had been since I started as a DCReviewer way back whenever. It was pretty inoffensive. One of those comics that didn't really stick out, save for the way it was colored. It's colored very nicely, I think. Anyway, since Wednesday's comic was for some reason with the Thursday comics, this was right below it:
The same art-style, in a way, but the coloring is less dynamic and the caption is typed, not hand-written like it usually was. Also, I'm not sure what to think about the joke. Part of me thinks it's funny and a but clever, but sort of bizarre and mean-spirited. What sort of sadistic jerk brings the sole survivor of a family massacre to the place his loved ones have been mounted? Anyway, I was willing to continue ignoring Birdbrains, but then I came upon today's strip:
Not colored, but it features the same two humans from the previous strip. It would appear that Birdbrains has evolved from a dime-a-dozen single-panel gag-a-day comic (nicely colored though it was) to something that features an amoral jerk and his chubby mute sidekick. I'll be paying some attention to it for a while, to see what develops.
And now... DEATH:
Ferd'nand
I'm still amazed that so many comics use death and killing as a punchline. This particular strip is done well, though I guess Ferd'nand has some lingering problems if his wife thinks he's going to hang himself. It's not just this strip, though. Lots of other strips also use death as punchlines, though in most cases it's a predator/prey type thing. Then you have things like Dick Tracy, in which stylized death is one of the strip's trademarks. However, occasionally, you get something like this, from Minimum Security:
Yes, that's a cop getting shot through the head and falling to the ground so we can see the exit wound. Which I think is a bit much, to be honest, and rather off-putting.
That's it for me today, folks. For more of my output, check out the Meekrat Entertainment Group.
A sorry haul for you today, folks. I'd apologize, but it's not really my fault. It's these darn comics not being worth commenting upon. Anyway, check out the Meerkat Entertainment Group should the mood strikes you. We've got comics, fiction, and more there!
Heathcliff
The main problem with this panel is that no one has ever called Heathcliff cute in the history of forever. Second, while I understand the limits of a single panel strip, having him standing there holding a bottle of cute pills is sort of ludicrous. Other strips, like Marmaduke and Family Circus, sometimes break their single panel into two or more. This joke would have worked better had Heathcliff sneaked off to take his pills.
Spider-Man
Look! Spider-Man is actually being clever!
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