Comments on: Metapost: WIN TYLER NOW!

By: messody

messody — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:10:12 +0000

I think lizradbreath is one kitten shy of being the cat lady

By: takeme!

takeme! — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:51:22 +0000

Jeez – leave town for a few days and come home to one of the few pleasures in a life full of business travel: sitting down with eight consecutive comics pages! (I make it a point not to read the funnies while I’m on the road just so I can do this).

But what do I find? The Chronicle has done a strip replacement! And they’ve replaced Piranha Club, one of my favorites. I’ll admit it’s not a classic, but it offers occasional bits of wit.

The new strip, My Cage (and it is new – the blurb says it’s just started, only syndicated in 40 papers), may turn out to be good.

The thing tearing me up, though, is this is the latest of several replacements that have displaced many deserving strips, while the dimwit, ugly, no-humor, hideously-drawn, waste of space Close to Home remains.

Just kill it, Kyrie, just kill it. Don’t replace it, just get rid of it. I wouldnâ€™t fret too much over lost readership . . . anyone who finds Close to Home remotely entertaining is very likely confined somewhere and canâ€™t patronize your advertisers.

Use the space to make the remaining strips a bit larger.

By: CrabbyGenes

CrabbyGenes — Sun, 06 May 2007 05:12:25 +0000

to #310, Genevieve. Thanks for answering. Sounds like your mom and I would get along. And I’m developing a theory that perhaps the most vehement Foob haters are people like me, for whom it paralleled the raising of their own kids, and who might have read it to their own kids.

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:12:24 +0000

CrabbyGenes, My Mother is about your age. She was a keen fan for many years. In fact I think fbofw was one of the first comic strips she introduced me to. (when it was still a fairly new comic strip) There had been times over the years that we would follow the strip with interest. Since she is near Elly’s age, I am near Liz’s age -there were wonderful and funny things to relate to.
Now? we read it as a form of masochism. Then we call or email each other and go, “WTF???” Proper bonding.
Thankfully there are other comic strips we love and can be giddy about. Aldomania! My Mother thought she had finally broken her Mary Worth habit a few years ago and it came back with a certain kind of strength.
Yeah we are dorks.

By: Poteet

Poteet — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:14:06 +0000

# 297 — Gulielma, I especially look forward to seeing the butt bow!