What's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?
Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
Try http://3eanuts.com/ which is Peanuts with the last panel cut off.
The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
Ok, much as I find Charlie Kaufman's films the same, but why bother? Do people not get that you whittle down your audience when you go out of your way to insult things people value.
Perhaps there are individuals that don't feel the need to cater to a broad audience?
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#23No, this is the best Lasagna Cat, complete with FF6 mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI
Wow, that Jim Davis tribute was impressive. And had a nice little jab at the guy right at the end :)
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#26This reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth.
Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
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#27I read Garfield when I was a kid. I have some books. It's strange but there were characters, a roommate, a dog (odie),a cute kitten that was resented, trips to a farm. Those things were written out, and it became sameness all the time. I'm surprised it's still being written. I love the remixes. Garfield minus Garfield is fascinating..
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.
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#28This reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth. Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
If you can find the strips and aren't easily shocked it's quite the interesting read.
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#29What's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?
Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
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 them when I was younger, pre-internet. Peanuts can't compete in a world of abundant webcomics. They range from the top to the bottom of quality, but given their sheer quantity, that means there's an awful lot of the "top" out there. The only syndicated strip I know that can stand up next to the top webcomics is Calvin and Hobbes.
(And even then, while the line art stands up, many webcomics' coloring blow away what Mr. Watterson was capable of doing in newspapers. Please note my phrasing on that; I'm blaming technical limitations, not Watterson's ability. IIRC he had some watercolors or something like that he'd done in the back of some of his books... his skill was beyond what newspapers of the day were physically capable of showing.)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
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.