Oh please. We have the right to criticize a comic that we no longer find funny. There’s no need to bring out the Zyklon-B.
I agree with with a lot of people who seem to have come out of the woodwork today to say this. The strip is outdated, not funny, and is mean-spirited pretty often. I’ve noticed that a lot of the comments on here tend to be advice towards the comic characters on how to fix the “funny”situation they’ve gotten themselves into. The the comments go off on an tangent where people talk about their own memories that are related to the subject matter, which I do enjoy since they’re often funnier. I never see any laughter or anticipation for tomorrow’s strip.
Yes, I know these are mostly repeats with some new strips thrown in once in a while, but they’re so old that they might as well be new again since most of us have never seen them before. So…we judge them with today’s attitude. A timeless classic should be just that, timeless. Even if the clothes and the language are different, the basic humanity of the characters should come through. Instead we get to see Elly hating being a housewife, hating being a mother, hating everything about her life and suffering away without making any real changes. That’s not a comic strip! That’s a therapist’s strip!
Oh please. We have the right to criticize a comic that we no longer find funny. There’s no need to bring out the Zyklon-B.
I agree with with a lot of people who seem to have come out of the woodwork today to say this. The strip is outdated, not funny, and is mean-spirited pretty often. I’ve noticed that a lot of the comments on here tend to be advice towards the comic characters on how to fix the “funny”situation they’ve gotten themselves into. The the comments go off on an tangent where people talk about their own memories that are related to the subject matter, which I do enjoy since they’re often funnier. I never see any laughter or anticipation for tomorrow’s strip.
Yes, I know these are mostly repeats with some new strips thrown in once in a while, but they’re so old that they might as well be new again since most of us have never seen them before. So…we judge them with today’s attitude. A timeless classic should be just that, timeless. Even if the clothes and the language are different, the basic humanity of the characters should come through. Instead we get to see Elly hating being a housewife, hating being a mother, hating everything about her life and suffering away without making any real changes. That’s not a comic strip! That’s a therapist’s strip!