francomega's review
4.0
I'm so glad I finally found this comic (after having it personally recommended by no less than Bill Watterson--in an interview, but I know he was speaking to me). It's the heir to Peanuts in every good way (with Petey Otterloop the modern Charlie Brown)--sweet, honest, and funny. I'm disaapointed I never came across this in one of my local papers (when I still read a physical paper) and that Thompson has had to stop the strip due to health reasons. Still, I'm thankful I can pick up the rest of these collections.
What about daily comic strips, though? They were a big part of my childhood and I'm sad my kids won't have the same experience. Even if I did re-subscribe to a paper, what's left of the comics section after budget cuts is laughable (fine...pun intended). The same tired strips that were weighing down the medium when I was a child are being recycled to keep their ever dependent syndicates afloat. Fresh voices have no entry point. Yes, there are a lot of great comics on the web, but they're all over the place. Maybe it's just nostalgia, maybe a little laziness, but the comics pages were a great institution we may have lost.
(Check out The Comics Curmudgeon http://joshreads.com/)
What about daily comic strips, though? They were a big part of my childhood and I'm sad my kids won't have the same experience. Even if I did re-subscribe to a paper, what's left of the comics section after budget cuts is laughable (fine...pun intended). The same tired strips that were weighing down the medium when I was a child are being recycled to keep their ever dependent syndicates afloat. Fresh voices have no entry point. Yes, there are a lot of great comics on the web, but they're all over the place. Maybe it's just nostalgia, maybe a little laziness, but the comics pages were a great institution we may have lost.
(Check out The Comics Curmudgeon http://joshreads.com/)
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