We were hoping (at least I hope I am not the only reader who was hoping) for a sweet boy-and-dog strip. (example: the more family-friendly Red and Rover)
But instead in the first volume of the collection we get the I-hate-my-child tone of Calvin and Hobbes (and so many other so-called “family” strips) and the start of exposure to (and normalization of) bad family patterns with the introduction of Rochelle. Subject matter that was already adult for what I though was a boy-and-dog strip.
But now we have this installment that shows the strip has become not only even more adult and treating toxic family relations as even less of a big deal, but has gained the bias of Doonesbury. Sorry to say it, but this is what the strip has become lately.
I sincerely hope those behind the strip will by chance read this and be willing to take it to heart and at least consider adopting the Red and Rover attitude for AJ and Magnus: A sweet strip, with an actually loving family, without the child-bashing (at least of the earliest strips), without the dysfunction, without the adult stuff, without the bias. I really think this will improve the strip. Think about it.
Seriously, this has gone too far.
We were hoping (at least I hope I am not the only reader who was hoping) for a sweet boy-and-dog strip. (example: the more family-friendly Red and Rover)
But instead in the first volume of the collection we get the I-hate-my-child tone of Calvin and Hobbes (and so many other so-called “family” strips) and the start of exposure to (and normalization of) bad family patterns with the introduction of Rochelle. Subject matter that was already adult for what I though was a boy-and-dog strip.
But now we have this installment that shows the strip has become not only even more adult and treating toxic family relations as even less of a big deal, but has gained the bias of Doonesbury. Sorry to say it, but this is what the strip has become lately.
I sincerely hope those behind the strip will by chance read this and be willing to take it to heart and at least consider adopting the Red and Rover attitude for AJ and Magnus: A sweet strip, with an actually loving family, without the child-bashing (at least of the earliest strips), without the dysfunction, without the adult stuff, without the bias. I really think this will improve the strip. Think about it.