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Re: Ah, Journalism
Posted By: Ferrick, on host 207.136.168.44
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001, at 11:42:16
In Reply To: Re: Ah, Journalism posted by Kiki on Tuesday, March 20, 2001, at 11:24:58:

> We get 4 pages of comics daily, which is pretty nice, cause we get a lot of good ones.... I read everything, back to front, except for the stupid Soap Opera ones, and the 5 I save for last, being...

FOUR PAGES!! DANG!!


> For Better or Worse
> Baby Blues
> Boondocks
> Liberty Meadows
> Zits

I like that list. Liberty Meadows originated at the University of Maryland so it is close to home for you.

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> Zits is the best thing around since Calvin & Hobbes, as far as I'm concerned. Somehow, the guys who write the strip do an amazing job of actually grasping a teenagers life.... it never condescends to us. My best friend and I have laughed countless times at how similar our relationship is to Jeremy and Sara's.

I think I know why you like Zits and Baby Blues...They have the same writer, Jerry Scott, but different artists.

> The absolute worst comic - and I hope most of you haven't been subjected to it - is Baldo. It's trying very hard to be zits - except Hispanic! Anyway, Blado, the Jeremy character, is an absolute insult to teenagers. He doesn't know a single thing about anything that's not "pop culture". He doesn't CARE about anything that's not "pop culture". He's a stereotype through-and-through. The only funny one I've seen was one Sunday strip, in which he managed to make a hoop in basketball - but using soccer skills. The only reason that was funny was because my aforementioned best friend is a through and through soccer player - even on a basketball court.
>

Baldo was one of the strips up for consideration here but it didn't fare too well. I wasn't very impressed by it, either.

Ferrick

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