Archive for the 'comics' Category
Riverdale
I stole this from The Comics Curmudgeon:
Thank me later.
Read More..>>Answering Billy
“Because they’re not real snowflakes, which you already know you little fuckin’ smartass. Now put that thing down and let’s get out of here, the warped representation of proximity and perspective is giving me a migraine!”
Read More..>>Things I Can’t Resist
Over the Line
I think I just crossed a line. Ah, well fuck it. So to speak.
Read More..>>Subtle Politics in the Family Circus?
Bil Keane is about the most stable, predictable, and let’s face it, BORING comic strip writers out there, which is why it’s always fun to deface the prosaic Family Circus with captions referencing anal sex, alcoholism, and horrifying gratuitous violence.
What’s going on in Saturday’s strip? I think the first question is who wrote it?
I am [...]
Charterstone
I love “Mary Worth”. Not because of the stories, which drone on and on and on interminably and for no good reason (with the exception of the Aldo Kelrast series, God bless you Aldo). And not because of the camp value.
No, I love Mary Worth because every panel looks like a Roy Lichtenstein on the [...]
Billy’s Existential Neurosis
There is so much to unpack here.Billy’s rage for instance: is the transition from 6 to 7 that bad? I remember having a great time at my 7th birthday: I got all sorts of Six Million Dollar Man toys, a Pulsar doll, and even a Big Wheel! So Billy, if you don’t want any [...]
Read More..>>Deep Thought
Who’s filming the shuttle?
And why does Daddy look so disappointed?
Garden
We’ve been harvesting a lot lately. Right now Christina’s downstairs canning the second batch of tomatoes. Our sunflowers are opening up, and while the zucchini seems to be dead, the bell pepper plant has four or five babies coming in, and the japanese eggplants have been producing steadily for weeks. We’ve been [...]
Read More..>>A Little Levity
I don’t think anyone who reads this blog doubts that my head is exploding over FISA. So instead of ranting, I have to take a quick break for some random hilarity.
I don’t read the comic strip “Curtis” all that much, but today’s strip is hysterical. Curtis, for those of you who don’t read the [...]
