Scots Taffer on 14/3/2008 at 04:40
Quote Posted by AR Master
They shouldn't
piss you offIf PBF pisses you off, I can't help you.
I do understand people getting pissed off with XKCD though.
BEAR on 14/3/2008 at 04:43
The most recent PBF comics havent made me lol but I've always found it to be hillarous.
I miss farside.
Tonamel on 14/3/2008 at 05:23
Quote Posted by Stitch
You can't possibly be talking about Mutts, which is one of the best drawn comics in newspapers today.
I believe she's referring to that...
thing that Grimm is talking to.
PigLick on 14/3/2008 at 06:08
Quote Posted by piano-sam
Is all the effort you spent getting mad about a stupid thing like comics worth it? Just chill out and put the damn thing down after reading Bizarro (by Piraro!).
I think it was worth the effort writing a very amusing piece of writing. Its not the message, its the delivery.
jtr7 on 14/3/2008 at 06:17
I can agree with that.:cool:
Fringe on 14/3/2008 at 14:09
(
http://joshreads.com/) The Comics Curmudgeon, like the aforementioned Garfield Minus Garfield, is one of those things that actually makes reading newspaper comics bearable again.
Starrfall on 14/3/2008 at 14:28
Quote Posted by Tonamel
I believe she's referring to that...
thing that Grimm is talking to.
Yep. And it's even more fucked up a day later!
Sulphur on 14/3/2008 at 17:15
Oh, screw newspaper comics. If you're going to compare 'em to C&H, all you're going to get from looking at those excuses for ink squiggles is a feeling of existential dread.
But there's this thing called the 'net. And it has (
http://sinfest.net) Sinfest. Forget that it may have been dipping in quality recently. Go fucking read it already.
D'Juhn Keep on 14/3/2008 at 17:25
after flicking through the archives I can safely say the quality hasn't dipped at all
doctorfrog on 14/3/2008 at 19:24
After reading Gargantua and Pantagruel and "studying" the nature of the grotesque in a high-minded college course, I can say that Grimm's eating cloned meat and sprouting clones is defensible.
In grotesque imagery, the body is a flexible, mutable blob. IMO, all cartoons, funny or not, spring from this grotesque logic. Bugs Bunny eats a radioactive carrot and gets super powers. Pantagruel is born from his mother's ear, though only after a copious bowel movement from his mother is first mistaken for his birth. A Greek god devours his children to keep himself from weakening. Weird shit happens. (Grimm's crime is in trying to be funny, though.)
Ranting that a comic doesn't make sense because something weird, stupid, or illogical happens is kind of pointless, comics are the space where this happens (whether it's funny or not). It's like pointing out that Bugs Bunny can't possibly know where Albequerque is if he's making that left turn while digging through the earth. PBF is a good comic choice for people who hate this, though, because it's got a knack for identifying these little idiosyncrasies of comics and turning them inside out. Characters often try to behave like they're in the comics, but it turns out they're in the real world (like a Mario-esque plumber who drowns in a toilet while trying to warp). It appeals to the smarter-than-thou comic reader while also managing to be funny, which is why it is good.
However, the fact that Mother Goose and Grimm isn't funny isn't defensible at all.
Maybe I'm just mad because all this hatred you feel for Grimm should be directed at Penny Arcade. That's about as funny as Mallard Fillmore.
*ducks*
