Wednesday, December 22, 2010

9 Chickweed Lane: What was I saying?

When Brooke McEldowney isn't fucking around with Nazi love triangles, he's often writing some of the best dialog in the comics section. Today's strip is a good example of that. There' nothing much happening. It's just two people talking. But the conversation is just so well done. It's a very natural sounding joke.

So, in short: fewer Nazi love triangles, more stories about two people talking.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

La Cucaracha: Less Latinas on TV with "reeely theeek fony axsents."

Rare is the day that I praise La Cucaracha, but the excellent aping of exaggerated dialect here made me laugh.

Though he doesn't come right out and say so, Lalo Alcaraz seems to be talking specifically about Modern Family here. Modern Family's depiction of race has always been somewhat problematic--its stories often condemn stereotyping, but only after they've used stereotypes for laughs--so it's interesting to see a Latino cartoonist take issue with it.

Family Circus: Stop tellin' everybody what we're askin' Santa for, 'cause then everybody'll ask for it and Santa might run out.

Total world domination is, after all, in limited supply.

Luann: THE #1 sign of true love.

Luann: Rendering everyday interactions between males and females kind of disgusting by overstating their importance since 1985.

Herb and Jamaal: Uh-oh. Jamaal's got that look on his face.

This comic is hilarious because women are bizarre and terrifying creatures, evidently incapable of forming coherent sentences.

Funky Winkerbean: You're back!

Fuck you, Batiuk. I was promised misery.

I'm still holding out hope that this is some sort of fantasy sequence leading up to a gruesome reveal.

Dennis the Menace: I hope you'll like it. I wrapped it all by myself.

I can think of only two reasons why this Dennis the Menace could be considered funny:

1. Because Dennis has failed to wrap the box up as well as he could have, though it doesn't look too bad to me.

2. Because the box contains Mr. Wilson's severed head.

I know which one I'm hoping for.

Close to Home: The building is designed so that every employee will have a view.

The drawing of the building in this cartoon does not seem to match the description of the building in the caption. Unless you count the side of a building as "a view."

I will chalk it up to laziness.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Cow and Boy: A wise man once said that smooshing an ice cream cone to your forehead does not make you a unicorn.

This is not an especially great Cow and Boy. Rather, it's just a regular, old, run-of-the-mill Cow and Boy. And that is why Cow and Boy is awesome.

Rudy Park: Give me a chance, people!

Given that the comic strip Darrin Bell writes is much better than Rudy Park, I see no reason why the next week should be anything other than a huge improvement.