Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results

some kid in my cub scout "pack" made half of us enact that one as a skit. he worried you a little.

later he threatened to kill me over his sister (we were 9)

Wow, I just went through the whole thread after only doing sections at a time.

Top Of My To Do List:
~Gasoline Alley
~The Spirit

I used to collect Fox Trot when I was younger. And like lots of things, I got turned off and remain that way. I remember when Jason didn't like school in the first couple books.
Life In Hell is overrated.
Achewood is overrated.

ok, maybe I'm being a little hard on Groening

i had a lot of foxtrot books too. this was in the dark years after c&h ended. my best friend and i sat in a panda express and talked about it as a potential second coming. of course it wasn't.

In my memory, FoxTrot was already past its peak and well into routine by the time C&H ended. It only debuted a couple years after C&H, so I guess that's not so surprising. Or maybe I was just growing out of it. I like the 80s-ness of the early strips, with Peter obsessing over Bruce Springsteen and stuff.

oh yeah i was reading it in collections exclusively; i don't think it was in my paper.

a personal second coming i guess.

so apparently there's a new achewood and it's a good one! (there are 2 new ones actually, the other is a fuck you friday)

a brief rumination on recent Achewood:
http://fleen.com/archives/2016/08/26/in-which-i-go-on-about-achewood-for-a-while/

on the discussion about the degree to which Achewood was native to the web, and to not being stand alone random gags: Tyrell using hypertext there, far more than explicit wording, to reference and allude to the way the accretion of detail is linked through time, both for the reader and the characters' lives within the strip (cf the recent one with Beef divining Showbiz' approach by treating the local papers minor police reports as runes)

although, of course, his doubt over whether this death of Todd's will take any more firmly than any previous can give weight to those who want to dismiss any seriousness of character or tone

recent achewood has been scorchin, reminded me why i loved it in the first place

RIP New Zealand's David Sim.