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Actually, people fear I may be anemic, but never mind. To respond to this:
... to be compelled to read a comic strip that one hates, week after week. Surely the only thing worse is the tragic compulsion to then spend additional precious minutes of one's life writing a letter detailing exactly how one feels.
Well, it doesn't take that long to come up with; the strip is so very bad it brings a peculiar kind of immediate inspiration. So it does do good in the world, I guess. It makes Salon readers very eloquent, very fast.
But here's the thing: there is nothing as bad as a bad comic. A good comic is a delight, cherished, read and re-read and passed around and like that. But a bad comic simply has no reason to exist. Having done bad comics, I can tell you: these people have no idea what a true assault of comics criticism is like.
But we like Salon, and like comics in Salon, and like seeing them on Tuesdays. We look forward to it, like milk delivered to our door, say. And if on Tuesday, that milk is spoiled, spiked with E. coli, and makes us violently ill, then I think we've a right to at least vomit and complain to the milkman, because the milk could just as easily be good as bad. It does the milkman no good to give us sour milk. We might pay attention to some other milkman.
There used to be smooth, creamy delicious milk on Tuesdays in this abortion's space. We'd like Carol to deliver it that day again.
I wonder: do pageviews of the letters count toward those for the strip? And if so, could Salon use this evil marketing power on behalf of a good strip, if one which isn't Carol's must be here? May I suggest Sam Henderson's Magic Whistle? It would compliment Keith Knight quite well, and he makes you laugh till your guts bleed.
Whereas just looking at this strip makes my eyes bleed.
