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

[marysdress.livejournal.com]

So for what it's worth, I think it was a bad two weeks of Red and Rover. At least I hope it was, because the first book of collected strips was really funny. Perhaps not cutting edge, but amusing nonetheless with a little bite. The cartoonist is the guy who does Adam at Home.

That said, of all the "domestic" strips out there I wish the Globe would pick up Baby Blues. That one still amuses me, and it's been going for years.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I think "Red and Rover" is kind of cute. I would certainly prefer "Baby Blues", though. I like "Baldo", too.