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A Link To Strong, Angry Language
Dec. 14th, 2010 01:01 amOkay, I know some of y’all may be Peanuts fans, but this NSFW editorial cracked me right the hell up, because it is exactly how I feel about Charlie Brown. Oh, sure, I read Snoopy as a kid because, y’know, comics, but I also read Archie,* so obviously I had no taste. Now whenever I look at a Peanuts strip I want to scream, “THESE AREN’T COMICS! THESE ARE SYMPTOMS!” I already have depression. I don’t want to get more depressed plumbing the depths of someone else’s.
So yeah, if you want insight, try Calvin and Hobbes. If you want actually funny existential angst, dammit, go find Garfield Minus Garfield, because that shit is genius. We can do better!
I will disagree on the musical taste, though. You can’t tell me "Linus and Lucy" isn’t a damn fine song.
*Actually, Archie had more value for me in the same way that I find value in those sanctimonious 1950’s Tell-You-How-To-Live shorts and B-movies: the value is anthropological. There is a fascinating hegemony expressed in those comics, and I can’t help but poke at it like some other ghoulish little nerdbert might poke at roadkill.
So yeah, if you want insight, try Calvin and Hobbes. If you want actually funny existential angst, dammit, go find Garfield Minus Garfield, because that shit is genius. We can do better!
I will disagree on the musical taste, though. You can’t tell me "Linus and Lucy" isn’t a damn fine song.
*Actually, Archie had more value for me in the same way that I find value in those sanctimonious 1950’s Tell-You-How-To-Live shorts and B-movies: the value is anthropological. There is a fascinating hegemony expressed in those comics, and I can’t help but poke at it like some other ghoulish little nerdbert might poke at roadkill.
