Seriously, I don't think I cared about anything after that! Forget the people, just give me a 'Farley chases rabbits in heaven and gets a goofy look on his face' strip!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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hmmm, yeah. I have never followed Doonesbury, so I can't comment on that, though, grand "fuck it" gestures in general by popular artists are usually pretty worthwhile on some level, I find, so, cool.
Also, I am not putting down the static time-frames of other comics; at best that is brilliant in its own (ironically, I guess it could be said) timeworn tradition, but, that was one of the things that I always appreciated about FBoW, esp. considering that it was not a political or soap-opera-ish strip. Well, okay, it was soap-opera-ish, but not in the sense that Apartment 3-G or Mary Worth were/are...
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Well in that respect one of its forebears might be something like Gasoline Alley, which similarly charted life-courses and did so in a vein that (from what I know of it) is neither political as such nor soap-opera like. Isn't it still going?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually I think it is weird that the reincarnation of Gasoline Alley is static w/its characters' ages whereas the original really stood alone for its aging/developing characters.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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N., I'm sure you realize this, but that's heading dangerously into Bil Keane territory. "Who puked on the coffee table?" (cue to impish-looking ghost of Barfy)
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha xpost
There is a redrawn Gasoline Alley and while it is awesomely bonkers, it is set in contemporary times and is as static as "Dennis the Menace"
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I have never actually seen Barfy barf.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahaha. (Although now I'm envisioning a huge evil ghost of Farley coming back and wreaking havoc and killing people for some reason.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
xposts Intersting. I know jackall about Gasoline Alley, other than the fact that it was an "important" comic...
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
It could only be an improvement. xp
― Nicole, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
The Hound of the Pattersons
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"They were the footsteps of a gigantic MUTT!"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Barfy vs Farley, played out among Okefenokee Swamp.
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta be better than that late eighties Pogo revive.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
(Although that thing did have one moment of glory -- a spot on parody of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns in a Sunday strip around when the first Burton Batman surfaced. But that's it.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
So, it's something like old bands reforming in desperate bids to relive glory days, or...ILX thread revives. Time making a mockery of us all, etc.
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
gasoline alley was an amazing strip in its day. check out the huge beautiful sunday pages that drawn & quarterly reprinted a few years ago - a major influence on chris ware.
― J.D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
FBOW (or is it FBOFW?) has been as boring as dirt for as long as i've been reading it. "hi and lois" has more human interest.
― J.D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
OUCH!
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
JUNO Thread -> FOOB Thread? Classic.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
FOOB has some things going for it tho. Like at least they don't do golf jokes.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy shit, For Better or for Worse is still running?
― Sundar, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, and the big storyline as of late involves Michael divorcing some woman/tart who tried to bust her way into the CFL.
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, what?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I brunched in the same restaurant with Lynn Johnston on the eve of Christmas Eve this past year. I tried not to stare.
― kate78, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
For Better Or For Worse - C/D?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
what the hell happened to this thread?! BOXCAR!
Juno soundtrack out next week.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
In terms both of genuine quality and ridiculous soapopera lolz FBOFW <<<< Funky Winkerbean
― A B C, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
It's like comparing father to son to holy ghost, really. I haven't read every single back copy of FW: was it always so fucking bleak?
I can't keep track of who's who in Funky now that they're all ten years older.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Funky looks like he's about 60 now, raising another man's kid, and I don't know if he even lives in Ohio anymore. Shit's fucked
― A B C, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I was gonna say I thought Funky was all marching band jokes and light hearted fun until they jumped ten years into the future for the first time but then I remembered the teenage pregnancy storyline was back then...nothing compared to the cancer/alcoholism/divorce/cancer/helicopter shootdown/land mine/cancer/car bomb/hostage situation/death clusterfuck of the past few years tho
― A B C, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
come back, Juno, all is forgiven.
btw, Alex in SF; what about Dem Congress passing Bush's "abstinence only" educ funding with nary a peep?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 January 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know how i feel abt this movie
― rrrobyn, Sunday, 13 January 2008 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
playing on the radio right now is finland metal band norther's version of 'the final countdown'. maybe i will let that stand in for my opinions right now.
― rrrobyn, Sunday, 13 January 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm seeing this tonight. I haven't read any posts (in case of spoilers, y'know), but when I do tonight, I hope they're all thought-provoking and shit.
― Tape Store, Sunday, 13 January 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i was glad to see a movie about a teenage girl who is interested in things and has a personality w/o being old guy jerkoff fantasy
Except she is, kind of.
um, except that this movie was written by a woman.
― J.D., Sunday, 13 January 2008 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Just got back from watching this. Totally loved it, so I guess I'm some corny indie rock douchebag.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 13 January 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think there's anything wrong with liking the film, polyphonic. And certainly, liking it doesn't make you as much as an indie rock whatever as liking Once. I just think there are some glaring problems with it (political - and aesthetic problems that come forth from the political problems).
― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 January 2008 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't worry, I always think I'm a corny indie rock douchebag.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 13 January 2008 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok... well: I don't think liking Juno makes anyone into a corny indie rock douchebag. Like I said above: It's a VERY likable film.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 January 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
(Though it could be that corny indie rock douchebags *will* like it.)
i really don't think this movie was "pro-life."
― J.D., Sunday, 13 January 2008 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link
so what. Juno is still definitely a fantasy figure, whatever else she is.
― 31g, Sunday, 13 January 2008 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean juno considers having an abortion, and moreover her stepmom suggests she get one! it's clearly accepted as a reasonable choice in the film.
and yes the abortion clinic is portrayed cartoonishly but for fuck's sake this is a movie where a character fills another character's mailbox with tic-tacs!
― J.D., Sunday, 13 January 2008 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
this wasn't my favorite movie but i really feel like half the criticisms of it i've been hearing are pretty lazy and/or kneejerk.
― J.D., Sunday, 13 January 2008 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, I was thinking, it would cost like $70-100 to fill someone's mailbox w/Tic-Tacs! Those things are not cheap. Maybe she stole some, but preggers teen dressed all...like that...would be pretty conspicuous.
― Abbott, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
and after 9 kinda shitty (but kinda punkrock) months
Way to put pregnancy into poetry.
― Cunga, Monday, 14 January 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
J.D. OTM
― Sundar, Monday, 14 January 2008 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked this movie.
― amateurist, Monday, 14 January 2008 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think it pushed the cleverness all that hard after the first 10 minutes or so, honestly. i like the way the movie reversed its tone toward the jennifer garner and jason bateman characters.
― amateurist, Monday, 14 January 2008 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link