I didn't entirely get the intended construction of the jokes in the Sunday Bizzaro (Sp??) strip yesterday . ( The strip appars to be not online , as it is a King Features Syndicate strip , who - Gasp !!! - appear to think they're in the comics business to make money , and keep their strips behind a wall . )
The joke was " variations on ' I Love New York ' "...but was the panhandler's shirt supposed to be saying " I Owe New York " ?" I Have Zero , New York " ?
The yokel , in Middle Ages garb...Was his shirt suppost'a mean " I Love York " , as in the English county that New York was indeed named after ??? ( And Prince Charles is now considered the Duke of , if I recall correctly . )
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I’m intrigued by the blond “giant” introduced in Prince Valiant Sunday, October 16. Did you notice his belt buckle? Schultz and Gianni have strayed from the Foster model in they have introduced real elements of the fantastic (if that’s not a contradiction in terms) into the strip, as opposed to science mistaken for magic or the unknown mistaken for the supernatural. Could they now be delving into… science fiction? I’m probably way off base here, but that blond guy reminds me an awful lot of Flash Gordon (or a Flash Gordon stand-in, anyway).
“Something Old, Something New”: Last weekend we bought Lynn Johnston’s recent (2010) HC collection of For Better or for Worse on clearance at HPB. What she and her daughter have done was to take the new “retro” strips and insert them where they would fit in the original continuity. I haven’t begun to read it yet; my wife snatched it out from under me. She says she thinks the collection is comprehensive as far as the original material is concerned. All of the continuity implants are designated by an asterisk, but the merging is not perfect. Tracy pointed out to me two examples this morning. In one of the old strips, Elly mentions something about Farley being at home alone a few weeks before one of the new strips shows them getting him as a puppy for the first time. In another inserted sequence, Michael gets a gold fish as a trial run for taking care of a puppy, but it is named “Fred” in one strip and “Frank” in another.
...This started elsewhere , but as for strips carried in our local papers:
The daily Santa Cruz Sentinel carries Bizarro (strip size) and Kidspot (panel puzzle/strip combination) on showbiz/advice puzzle pages .
The carry Alley Oop in the classified ads - Not always on Friday or Saturday .
They carry one editorial cartoon daily , two-four on Saturday and Sunday - seemingly all syndicated , not a local one .
On the dedicated " COMICS " page:
Left column , from top,
Dilbert
Zits
Pearls Before Swine
Sherman's Lagoon
The Brilliant Mind Of Edison Lee @ (boy genius leads normal suburban life - Bernie the Brain , 21st Century ?????)
Get Fuzzy
Lio
Baby Blues
Freshly Squeezed (a recession-forced three-generation family , inside one house)
Blondie .
The right column:
Non Sequiter (panel-sized)
Argyle Sweater @ (panel-sized) (Far Side , Rhymes With Orange , etc.-type single-gags anthology)
Doonesbury
Rhymes With Orange (strip)
F Minus @?? (strip) (as with Argyle , gags anthology)
The Duplex
Baldo
Pickles
Mutts
Peanuts (title says just " PEANUTS " , it's 1998 strips) .
Legend: " @ " mens " New to me before this paper " , I included an explanation or two more for strips I thought might be unfamiliar , the whole thing of (generally) single-panel strips like Non Sequiter and Rhymes With Orange being offered in both panel and strip dimension versions - which means considerably re-arranging the drawing - just weirds me out !!!!!!!!!!!
Baldo appeared to be going around to suggesting that some of the (pretty middle-class , nice house , after all) adult family members might be illegal U.S. residents - Then , may have backed away from that - ??
PowerBook Pete (The Mad Mod) said:
Prince Valiant Update: Aleta seems to recognize the “blond giant.” Hmm…
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