Saturday, 19 October 2024

[dreadedcandiru2]

The one where Liz throws a tantrum because someone treated her the way she treats others.

Synopsis: Dawn uses translatable wordplay when forced to listen to Liz lose her shit because she allowed Candace to gert the better of her.

Summary: It doesn't take a genius to pair Liz's dishonesty with the "inexplcable" jealousy of Therese.

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[howtheduck]

[dreadedcandiru2]

Dawn has been on the receiving end of Liz taking hypocritical offense:

[jjamele]

Lynn must hate women, to constantly show them being catty and back-stabbing like Liz's "friends," feeding her exactly what they know she wants to hear to encourage her to finish off a relationship they have no business being invested in. How empty are their own lives to have so much mental energy wrapped up in a marriage of two people they barely know?

People like this would not be satisfied with seeing Liz and Anthony end up together. They just look for the next "scandal" to whisper about, the next relationship to undermine For The Heck of It. Hell, they'd probably just go right back to putting worms in Liz's ear about how Anthony was seen in the same mall as Therese or (gasp) even talked to her, What's That All About I Heard The Marriage Isn't Working Out....

[dreadedcandiru2]

It's a reflection of how boring and empty her own life is when she's being herself and not the celebrity she poses as.

[jjamele]

Here's a tip for any decent people out there (obviously, this does not include any of Liz's "friends"): If you find yourself looking over your shoulder to make sure no one else is around before you start talking about someone who is not there, you should take that as a sign that you need to STFU and stop being the teenager you were supposed to leave behind years ago.

[dreadedcandiru2]

What these alleged adults need is this gentle reminder:

[chocolate_frapp]

First strip: I'm still amazed Elly has any friends.

Second strip: Why the hell would Liz confide in Michael of all people?

Fourth strip: Are Liz's arms broken? Why can't she brush her own damn hair?

Fifth strip: Weird arm shit from Dawn.

Ninth strip: Dawn has apparently never had a boyfriend in the entire strip so why is she of all people saying she knows what it's like to be in love?

[dreadedcandiru2]

Her biography ends on the strangest note of all. She married some oik who looks like a picture she drew the hen she was five.

[jjamele]

"I have more than one friend, and all of my friends like each other."

"Mom, name three friends that you have."

Elly's head explodes.

[jjamele]

Again- after thirty years of teaching High School, I make enough to rent a one-bedroom apartment in the suburbs of DC...because of rent control. This woman is a multi-millionaire for producing this Nothing.

[dreadedcandiru2]

There's no justice in this world, is there?

[howtheduck]

Lynn Johnston was hired to fill a particular niche in an industry that was dominated by men. Cathy Guisewite took the "single woman" spot and Lynn Johnston took the "married woman" spot for the syndicate. I remember seeing advertisements from the syndicate that promoted their comic strips solely based on their gender and their marital status. And most importantly, it worked for the syndicate. They got thousands of sales from newspapers doing that. So, it is to the syndicate's credit that they figured a newspaper would like the idea of comic strips done by women and they took advantage. Lynn Johnston is fortunate that she was that woman. It was less important what she did and more important what she represented and how she looked. She is certainly not the first person to become a multi-millionaire by this method.

Cathy Guisewite was extremely pretty, and she looked good as "the single woman" on talk shows. Lynn Johnston had the look of an approachable married woman. Both of them had almost no experience in cartooning when

[jjamele]

99 percent of comics are brainless, pointless, space-filling and space-wasting trash. Every once in a blue moon I pick up the comics section of a newspaper and browse through it and it's time I'll never get back. Most of it is recycled nonsense from the middle of the last century, the "new" stuff is even worse. I don't know what the point of any of it is. Who is a devotee of "Rose is Rose" or "Pluggers?"

[dreadedcandiru2]

This leaves us with a question that has weighed upon my mind for the last eighteen years: "Why are newspaper comics still permitted to bore people?"

There used to be a sort of reason for them long ago but that time passed ages ago. It's just inertia that keeps the blasted things wasting space. Other nations and cultures appear to get along just fine without them so their persistence here seems like an anachronism we'd do well to put behind us.

[chocolate_frapp]

I miss the shit out of Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side and a LOT of the strips I loved were done by guys who are dead and could not be replaced like Peanuts, Pogo, etc. In fact, mercifully very few people remember this but after Walt Kelly died his wife and his son both tried to carry on doing Pogo but they were both really not talented at all. We're talking Julian Lennon levels of pathetic. It didn't last.

[howtheduck]

Long gone are the days when artists used to intentional draw cartoons to attract the public interest. I remember that back when Dick Tracy was originally written, Al Capone was still out and about and the artist was attempting to capitalize on the public interest in gangsters. It worked and Dick Tracy sold many papers. "Rose is Rose" or "Pluggers?" are not going to have that kind of appeal and they are not even trying. Most of the recycled stuff tells us that the modern comics page in the newspapers is mainly a nostalgia fest.