Surprised no one has mentioned Rick and Morty yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM_XPZH6QE0
The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still being written because Jim Davis's chief motivation in starting Garfield was to do something about the struggling economy in his home town of Muncie, Indiana. The strip's mediocrity is a secure source of income for two dozen people in a struggling town, and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera.
> and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera. I'm not sure, and I have other things to think about right now, but this smells of a broken-window fallacy.
This is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation. In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy.
Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#43Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#44This reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth. Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
The Dilbert Hole ruined Cards Against Humanity for me... it's just too tame in comparison.
Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#45Even if Garfield Minus Garfield is a little weird, I think it's fascinating how the absence of the cat creats such a obscure melancholia. Some of the stripes even become philosophical.
Garfield Minus Garfield plus 4chan is weirder still
Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#46Surprised no one has mentioned Rick and Morty yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM_XPZH6QE0
In a video I never would have expected to be on topic here, see also "Gazorpazorpfield Minus Gazorpazorpfield": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R56aB9GxAzM
The mere fact that somebody did it is more amusing than the final result.
Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#47What's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?
Which diss?
Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera. I'm not sure, and I have other things to think about right now, but this smells of a broken-window fallacy.
This is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation. In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy.
> In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy.
You have a point there. I think what I'm getting hung up on is that it's not so much a creation of value as a redistribution of value (from the comic strip workers to the gas station attendants, and to the government collecting taxes). Of course, there should be _some_ creation of value involved for the buyers and sellers of the gas pumping service, other wise they would abstain from it, and maybe it is this value that the parent comment referred to, and all is well.
> This is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation.
Actually, I'm uncomfortable with many discussions of "job creation". It often seems that the number of people hired, i.e. the number of "jobs created", is all that is considered, even if the work done is not useful, meaning that a job-creating action is seen as a success even if it comes at a cost greater than that of just gifting the same people the money and leaving them available for useful work.
Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
#49There's also this crudely drawn but shockingly engrossing series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKuF51aPFaq-2UvU-HkS...
As well as all the follow-ups and side stories by the same person (check their channel for the rest).
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a decent 5 years of strips in the run of 50 years, scattered but mostly front-loaded, though you also have to skip the first couple. But even the decent strips are low-key and subtle, and you may have needed to be able to connect to some of the characters more than you may have been able too. (I wasn't "Charlie Brown" as a kid per se, but I connected more than others might have.) I know this because I read th…
I liked Calvin and Hobbes a lot, but it all depends on one's tastes; I make no claim that any of them are objectively 'good' or 'bad'. I do think C&H seems to have a lot more effort and thought behind it than Garfield or many of the Peanuts strips.
Calvin and Hobbes's creator really liked Schulz's work: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119214690326956694