When is it nostalgia, and when is it unhealthy?
So, between the online comics page of the Houston Chronicle and the now-defunct comics.com, I read all of my daily comic strips online. Comics.com isn't exactly defunct, if you consider being merged into gocomics.com a type of immortality, and the upside of the merger is that gocomics.com has license to post the reruns of some truly classic strips (my age, let me show you it) PLUS a nifty, multiple-list archive to save off specific strips.
(Today's trivia challenge: edit the above paragraph into something a normal human being with a solid grasp of American English and an above-average SAT Verbal score would have written. I used to be that person, but it may have been awhile.)
My fave classics include:
Calvin and Hobbes
Cathy
For Better or For Worse
Foxtrot
Mutt and Jeff (actually new to me, I'd never seen it before)
Peanuts (DON'T JUDGE ME, FOR I AM LUCY VAN PELT AND WILL YANK YOUR FOOTBALL)
edited to add: Sweet Baby Jesus napping in his manger, how could I have left out Bloom County, where I am of course Milo? or maybe his grandmother? But definitely not Steve Dallas's girlfriend, because I could never hide my one true vanity hair under a hijab?
The point of this ramble is that I've saved off way more Calvin and Hobbes (I see myself as Hobbes, in this case) than I've let go by. Cathy, while more topical and only slightly less dated than Mutt and Jeff, is running a close second because the different chords the strip hits now fascinate me in a train-wreck sort of way.
Extra credit, and here I am thinking about the "This is Your Brain on Music" guy: are comics the same way, and only the ones you read as a teen/young adult seem like real comics, or are comics today just not as good? I'm going with the latter, since Rose is Rose and Non Sequitor totally rock my world (at obvious ends of the humor spectrum, clearly.)
(Today's trivia challenge: edit the above paragraph into something a normal human being with a solid grasp of American English and an above-average SAT Verbal score would have written. I used to be that person, but it may have been awhile.)
My fave classics include:
Calvin and Hobbes
Cathy
For Better or For Worse
Foxtrot
Mutt and Jeff (actually new to me, I'd never seen it before)
Peanuts (DON'T JUDGE ME, FOR I AM LUCY VAN PELT AND WILL YANK YOUR FOOTBALL)
edited to add: Sweet Baby Jesus napping in his manger, how could I have left out Bloom County, where I am of course Milo? or maybe his grandmother? But definitely not Steve Dallas's girlfriend, because I could never hide my one true vanity hair under a hijab?
The point of this ramble is that I've saved off way more Calvin and Hobbes (I see myself as Hobbes, in this case) than I've let go by. Cathy, while more topical and only slightly less dated than Mutt and Jeff, is running a close second because the different chords the strip hits now fascinate me in a train-wreck sort of way.
Extra credit, and here I am thinking about the "This is Your Brain on Music" guy: are comics the same way, and only the ones you read as a teen/young adult seem like real comics, or are comics today just not as good? I'm going with the latter, since Rose is Rose and Non Sequitor totally rock my world (at obvious ends of the humor spectrum, clearly.)