This is yesterday's Mary Worth. Read it:
So they call Batman "The World's Greatest Detective" but I don't think he's that great. I mean, I could be a pretty good detective too if all the mysteries of the city were committed by like one of five people.
And it's not like the mysteries are even that hard.
"Hmmm, somebody released all the penguins from the zoo. I wonder..."
So, like all of my other comic strip-oriented blog posts, this one must again link to the absolutely amazing Comic Curmudgeon from which I read all comic strips (my daily New York Times is sorely lacking a funnies page).
...what? Seriously...what? There is absolutely no way that can be interpreted as anything but some weird fetishistic sexual come-on involving sexy hair trimming.
Eww. Gee, I only hope there's some weird fetish songs in the Luann musical! I mean, who isn't dying to hear Luann's geeky friend Bernice sing a show-stopping ode to leather?
Then again, at least that strip is attempting to have a joke (I think) unlike this Funky Winkerbean from last week:
Sigh. God, Funky Winkerbean sucks.
And again, all shitty comics come to my attention through the Comics Curmudgeon.
Like many fans of the mediocrity museum that is the newspaper comics page, I was very confused to see a Vampire Weekend reference in today's "Sally Forth".
You see, I had always imagined that SF was drawn by some woman in her forties and I really didn't expect the characters to start mentioning popular indie rock bands.
I got even more confused when I headed over to the A.V. Club and was informed that "Sally Forth" had previously made a reference to ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead.
A bit of investigating led me to the blog of SF writer Francesco Marciulano and a quick perusal of it leads me to believe that he's a much hipper guy than I would have ever believed from actually reading "Sally Forth".
Anyway, the real reason I'm writing this is to post this pretty cool video he made for his other strip Medium Large.
Garfield the comic strip is not funny. The fact that it has run for three decades (this year is its 30th anniversary!) using only four repeated jokes is mildly funny, but the strip itself is not. It has an endearingly cartoony art style and I've always enjoyed that I share a name (spelling and all) and a hairstyle with the main human character but...yeah...that's all it's got going for it.
Recently though, the absolutely wonderful Comics Curmudgeon blog, which brings me so much joy every day, has posted links to a few sites that attempt to mine real humor out of Garfield's bloated, cavernous, lasagna-reeking gut.
The first is this message board where people have taken all of Garfield's thought balloons out of the strips to create a vague surrealist comic. My favorite is definitely this one:
Even better is the blog Garfield Minus Garfield where the creater uses a similar idea but takes Garfield himself wholly out of the comic to make it just a strip about Jon Arbuckle, lonely (and possibly mentally disturbed) young man. Here's a taste:
My favorite of the group, however, has to be the absolutely brilliant Lasagna Cat. This one's kind of hard to explain and you either love it or hate it, but I'll try. Lasagna Cat films Garfield comic strips starring people in creepy costumes and set in a tone which is like a mixture of a bad sitcom and a nightmare. Then every video follows with an intrepretive music video with a song that may or may not relate in some strange way with the topic of the comic. Oh, and each video somehow incorporates a picture of Jim Davis (actual Garfield creator) at the end.
You really have to watch a couple to get the hang of it (drugs help to) but they begin to take on a deranged genius after a while. They're very existence is just so absurd. Here's a couple:
Goddamn, it's about time someone made comic strips entertaining again. Now, if only someone did the same for Mary Worth...
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