Lack of originality in comics

[jducoeur]

Okay, I have to say that I'm appalled here. Check out the two new strips that the Globe is thinking of adding. Is it just me, or are both of these blatant third-rate retreads of existing strips? Not only do they show an absolute lack of originality, they each manage to miss the point of what made their precursors genuinely funny, with the result that one comes across as trite, and the other simply dumb.

Geez, I knew that the comic-strip form was suffering. But if this is the best choice they're getting from the syndicates, we're definitely in the end times for the medium...

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

"Pardon My Planet" has had a few clever strips, so that's where my vote will be going. I just want them to give me a way to vote out that horrid new strip about the conservative girl with the fucked-up lips! I swear, I thought she was sucking a pacifier for the first several weeks they ran it.

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

Ugh! You're talking about Prickly City! Many, many Washington Post readers are trying to get it removed from our comics pages.

[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

I like Prickly City. It skewers both sides equally well, although depending on what time you read it at, you may miss the skewering of a particular side.

FWIW, I've read Prickly City Sunday strips. I believe the young girl is supposed to be of African descent, hence the large lips.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

They don't look large. They look pasted on. They look like something landed on her face. They look...

Oh hell, the guy's just a bad artist.