The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 14, 2020

Is this comic telling us that folks who read comic are losers?

Uncle Scrooge comic. A great choice.

I have read the Bond novels, War Of the Worlds and The Thin Man. Laura and Rebecca are on tap. Some of my favorite movies are adapted from titles like these.

I’m an incurable bookworm that has read some of those classics (“Moby Dick” and “Hunchback of Notre Dame” just to give two examples). I have to say that some of those classics (like “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and “Moby Dick”) were REAL SLOGS and not very fun to read at all.

You mean life isn’t a Disney movie!?

No, he has the original Golden Classic comic books.

OK, that’s just sad…

whew! I feared this was going into another direction with the ‘expose yourself’ opening line

When I think ‘Classics’ two things come to mind. 1, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, and 2, Loony Tunes; Bugs, Yosemite, Daffy and the gang. Serious classic reading that I really enjoyed, 1, Marathon Man, (A classic in my book, if you’ll pardon the expression), and 2, anything by Ellery Queen.

In the new dumbed-down milieu in which we live? Thimk, Gladys!

Why doesn’t Gladys get Brutus’s foot rest? He had hard day at office.

listening to audio books doesn’t either IMVPO

I’m 65 and I still read comic books. You can pull up and read any comic book ever written for free at www(dot)readcomiconline(dot)to

Classic cartoons are great, I personally liked Yosemite Sam, Tom and Jerry and Elmer Fudd!

Classics Illustrated comic books were my introduction to “Classic Literature.” Quite often, after reading one of those, a visit to the library for the real book was required. I had probably read many classics well before they were required in school.

i always depended on the Mad Magazine versions

Actually, seeing the movie adaptations first could inspire one to read the book. It has for me and I found the books to usually be better. His choice of movies of classic novels reflects on his appreciation of the classics. However, his family life and work life do not afford him the time to truly digest the classics. Plus, the comics are more fun….

Don’t feel bad Brutus, most people haven’t read the classics unless they had to for a English Lit class, and then a lot of them probably read the Classic Comic Book version.

The teachers thought I had read the Shakespeare assignments, but I never read a word. It has not made my life lacking in anything.

Besides sometimes they leave the juicy stuff out of the movie to keep the rating PG.

The Born Loser is a classic.

With all due respect to Charles Dickens, the musical version of Oliver Twist starring Mark Lester was quite wonderful!

Uncle Scrooge is classic literature in it’s own right. Good ol’ Carl Barks.

I’m not sure if I’m proud or sorry to say that I read “Classic Comics” In these precursors of the graphic novel I read Moby Dick, The Three Musketeers, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Quixote and many others.

Yes I don’t like it how film adaptations of books is very changed from the book source.