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- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: Worst Comics. Was (Re: Jim's Journal)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.023444.6936@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <1992Dec18.015759.14574@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <Bzo24r.JDL@unix.amherst.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:34:44 GMT
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- kehandle@unix.amherst.edu (KEITH EDWARD HANDLEY) writes:
-
- >Dave Schaumann (dave@cs.arizona.edu) wrote:
- >: Garfield
- >: Probably the hightest popularity/talent ratio of any strip I'm
- >: aware of. IMHO, Jim Davis hasn't thought of a new joke in years.
-
- >What's worse is that none of his writers have thought of a new joke
- >in years.
-
- The other day the kids were going thru old stuff in the basement and
- found a Garfield collection from the *very* early days. They really
- dug it. Looking things over, Garfield was a damned good strip at the
- start. He was the Don Rickles of cats, a piggy-eyed obese lazy
- scumbucket who said what you always thought cats would say. Lyman the
- freeloading roommate, and his dog Odie. The mailman. Jon working for
- a living (anybody remember what he does? I do...). Over the course of
- about 3 years he converted to a big- eyed pleasantly plump curmudgeon,
- sort of changing into Andy Rooney. It's a damned shame.
- --
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- can Hell be far behind?" | -- Mr. Peanut in "Monty Peanut's
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