Comments on: My dinner with Logan

By: mvg

mvg — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:28:36 +0000

spike (268): Wally didn’t gain weight — that’s a suicide vest under his uniform. Let’s just hope his “Allah Akbar!” moment takes out as many of the dreary, doomed residents of Westview as possible.

By: Poteet

Poteet — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:06:41 +0000

# 285 buckyswife — I’m an admitted fanatic (got home yesterday from a conservation conference), so I know what you mean. I am torn every Sunday between being grateful that there is a strip that deals with conservation at all, and a wish that the Elrodball would do more with the available space.

I think it would be possible to state the problems a little more clearly without ranting and raving. But I admit I couldn’t be a good objective judge at this point about what level of problem-stating would be appropriate and how much would, as commodorejohn pointed out, cause people to avoid the strip altogether. Anyway, I hope a few more people know about white-nose now.

As for hormones and mood swings, all I can say is I’m on the rollercoaster. And I was never that calm and sedate to begin with. The Elrodball doesn’t really cause me to go ballistic, but certain other cartoonists are lucky I can’t reach through the screen and grab them by their throats and choke them until…ooh, look! There’s a goldfinch outside the window! What a nice day!

By: buckyswife

buckyswife — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:05:43 +0000

284 commodorejohn: I agree that raising the question is important—and that finger-pointing can alienate people. But by making them so “palatable,” he also makes it easy to dismiss them and to deny responsibility. After reading his descriptions, it’s easy to say, “well, humans aren’t really the problem here” or “this doesn’t affect me” or “someone else is taking care of this”—all attitudes that perhaps aren’t sufficient at this point.

But I must confess that this whole thing is a big personal issue with me right now and that I’m probably taking it all too seriously.

Either that, or my hormones are totally whacked out at the moment (equally likely). Or, more likely, both.

By: commodorejohn

commodorejohn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:59:23 +0000

#282 buckyswife – I dunno, I think if Mark Trail did a lot of finger-pointing people would just tune it out (and besides, I doubt Jackelrod could really coherently express the issues, anyway.) Maybe it’s enough for it to just raise the question.

By: Jamus The Bartender

Jamus The Bartender — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:24:17 +0000

FOOB: My sister did this a LOT with Your Humble Narrator when I was visiting them up north. She’d step out for “just a minute”. A minute became five, then ten, then two hours…..it’s like this game with her now.
Slylock Fox: The strip doesn’t show it, but when Jamus and Cassandra were asked that question by Max Mouse, I said something like ” I know a game when someone moving backwards means Jamus wins, ” Then Tiffany and Melody tittered and giggled, I winked at them….damn, were they ever hot, then I grinned at Cassandra, who , I should point out, did NOT wink back, but rather….well, everything was kind of a blur, I woke up at home with a headache, sprawled out on the fire escape.
Judge Parker: All this means we’re not gonna see any cheerleaders, doesn’t it?
Mary Worth: Go sin with Charley, Delilah. Right now. Then come in all drunk, with that JBF look. That’ll teach her to mind her own business.
Spider-Man:” Is there room enough in New York for THREE super-beings?” Well…um….hell yes. I mean, that was kind of the idea with Marvel Comics to begin with, right? Plus, most DC’s are on the East Coast….oh, here I go again…