Some Comic Strip Writers Have Issues
Luann has never been one of the better comic strips in the newspaper. Chronicling the unusual adventures of a cutie=pie teenager and her cutie-pie friends, the strip is a miasma of lame jokes, unrealistic scenarios, and plot lines that plod along slower than a retarded turtle. The past week has been a good example: one of Luann’s rivals at school, the snotty and arrogant Tifanny, has won the Chamber of Commerce beauty pageant (I didn’t know this was something your typical Chamber of Commerce was involved in, but whatever). Tiffany is so impressed with herself she changes her name to Sheraton St. Louis, which grates on Luann, who decides to play a prank. She tricks Tiffany/Sheraton into thinking Steven Spielberg wants to cast her in a movie. The prank is carried out using myspace. I think I’ll pause here and allow you to absorb what a fucking lame plot device that is.
Myspace? Are you fucking kidding me? That’s such retarded writing, even retards start grinding their teeth.
So anyway, the typical hilarity ensues. Tiffany is tricked into dying her hair. Tiffany “hires” two of her classmates to be her publicist and manager, a plot-twist that is so alien from the way things work, and in ways that are obvious even to real high school students, that I want to shriek like Rumple-fucking-stiltskin and jump off the nearest tall building.
But my real reason for writing this whole post?
The camel toe. Specifically, why is an adult man, who writes a comic strip about teenage girls, paying such close detail to a teenage girl’s crotch that he includes the camel toe in his illustration?
That’s just fucked up.
July 26th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
I think it’s just a zipper. We have seen Connie (Zit’s mom) with bad CT before though.
July 27th, 2006 at 1:44 am
“plot lines that plod along slower than a retarded turtle”
So long as there’s Mary Worth, there’s a home for retarded turtles
July 27th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Yello:
I’m not referring to the zipper, represetned by a vertical line.
I mean the V that the zipper comes out of. That’s CT right there.
The onion did a great little article, one of their smaller blurbs, in which Greg Evans left some drawing on his desk of Tiffany. Her cheerleading skirt is hiked up and she’s saying “Oh Gre-egg!”
So it’s not just me that believes Evans harbors masturbatory fantasies about teenaged girls, and I don’t mean the barely-legals either.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:16 am
“Sunday, Greg Evans opens with a title panel showing his heroine in workout clothes, with her gym shorts lovingly rendered to show her ass-crack. Completely gratuitous. Observe. By the last panel, you can see him thinking about giving her a camel-toe too.”
http://www.citypaper.com/comics/printready.asp?id=5172
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 am
You should see the CT in last Thursday’s Luann. Talk about obvious.
http://www.luannsroom.com/comics/luann/archive/luann-20080717.html
June 9th, 2009 at 1:50 am
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