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Wednesday, 28 March 2007
And a better punchline than Garfield's ever had...
It Stinks!

A couple of days ago, someone on Fark linked to The Comics Curmudgeon blog — reminiscent of the Baltimore City Paper's long-defunct Funny Paper feature ("We read the comics so you don't have to!") — and in my usual obsessive-compulsive fashion, I've been reading my way through the entire archives.

One entry a couple of years ago included a snippet of dialogue from Golden Girls, which I thought was actually quite funny:

Blanche: I love my comics. Every day, Marmaduke and Apartment 3-G.
Dorothy: I haven't read Apartment 3-G since...1962.
Blanche: Oh, well, let me catch you up! It is later that same day...

Also in the funny-'cause-it's-true department: a take on B.C. by the writer of Sally Forth.

The Comics Curmudgeon also introduced me to two strips I'd never encountered before: Pluggers, the overarching theme of which appears to be "Real Americans pride themselves on having narrow minds and living in squalor", and They'll Do It Every Time!, which is like a bitter octogenarian's blog translated into cartoon format.


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Lio recently had a brilliant take on "For Better or For Worse", and it was actually published.
Posted by The Lunchbox on 28 Mar 2007 21:10
Oh - the one where he messes with their cue cards? Hilarious; it was my first exposure to Lio.

Posted by Godfrey on 28 Mar 2007 22:35
Damn you for linking to this; yesterday all I could do was hear that snarky voice as I read the comics!

Pluggers is a staple of the Boston Globe. It was my least favorite part about living in Maine.
Posted by Zach on 1 Apr 2007 07:25