Letters to the Editor
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is there anybody out there?
You know how sometimes people are writing letters to Salon about how big a jerk King Kaufman is, and then the next letter is by King Kaufman himself? Or they'll say that Joan Walsh got served on some MSNBC show the night before and then the next letter is by Joan Walsh herself?
Why is it that Schlesinger and Bachtell seem to be the only folks working for Salon who never respond? Can it be that they are too arrogant to care that they are despised? Do they have us trapped in the midst of some elaborate practical joke that, once we know we've been had, we'll clap our hands with glee? Do they need to be hated?
Please, Promulgators: Why not write back?
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The joke is on the reader, and this is bad....really
I hate this worse every time I see it, EVEN THOUGH I understand that its ghastliness IS the joke, I STILL hate it. To be truthful, I feel like this is a joke on the reader, which pisses me off to no end. Hint: the reader is supposed to laugh, not the pinheads making the strip.
Ha, ha, ha, look at these letters, we've really got 'em scratching their heads, Toni! Let's see, for no reason whatever, we've name-dropped New York, Pakistan, Paris, Mossad, Crique du Soleil, dumb blondes named after states, those little scooter things, oh yeah, Vespas..... Let's introduce, also for no reason, some ex-Gestapo and Kremlin references in the next strip and see how much they hate that!
No. This is wrong. Maybe I'm too uptight, but I don't like being deliberately made a fool of. I feel like Charlie Brown taking yet another charge at the football. Toni/Lucy, you're smarter than we are, we know that, but not this time. Just cut it out, will ya?
But Dust1969 I loved your comment. It was the first laugh of my day and it was a hearty one. I have an idea. Why don't you write the strip? I won't even need pictures!
At least it was real comedy and not swill masquerading as...as...who knows.....
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Aw, Salon, really?
This comic is absolute dog shit.
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This is still here?
I'm surprised to see this back yet again. Editors, this comic suuuuuuuuuucks.
We've already established that the dialogue is drivel. I know people have already pointed this out in last week's thread but if you know anything about comics--heck if you've ever read the Sunday funnies page--you'd know that this is a poorly put together strip. The art is charicature art, it belongs in the New Yorker, not in a multi-panel comic. For a comic, the art is terrible, terrible, it's too big and barely fits in a panel, it's just giant heads smashed together...and what on earth is up with that font?--most amateurs wouldn't be caught dead using that crappy font, let alone professionals.
It's not even funny anymore, it's CRAZY bad.
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Sucks
This comic really sucks.
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Coffeeman
I had the same reaction reading your comment about "Kansas O. haters" that I have when someone calls me a "Bush hater": you say that like it's a BAD thing.
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Very brave...
to mark as "Editors' Choice" the only letter bashing the other letter writers.
This cartoon is crap. It is not harmless, and every letter writer here is trying to help you, Salon, to appreciate the damage being done. The $30 a week you're paying these chumps could be used as a holiday bonus for some deserving reporter (maybe a Target gift card?). Add to that imperceptible improvement in staff morale the imperceptible increase in real-life productivity of the Salon readership; the cancellation of this strip would be a win-win.
Please, please, please make it stop.
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One Question Resolved
Last week I wrote the real narrative was in the letters column, not the strip. One of the questions I posed was: "Will there be a backlash of Kansas defenders? Will the backlash be real or just knee-jerk contrarians?"
This plot point has been resolved - it's the knee-jerk contrarians: a. the "if you don't like it, don't read it" who cannot, of course, avoid reading the letters they don't like; and b) those so offended by people "wasting time" critiquing something trivial they waste their time denouncing this to prove their superiority. Now that I have mentioned them the snake eats its tail in the cycle of lulz-to-serious-business.
A knee jerk contrarian gets editors choice this week. Since last week was a harh put down, does this indicate Salon is being evenhanded or are they losing patience with the barrage of negative reactions? If it is the latter, then why don't they cancel the strip?
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_Well_. Talk about bad faith...
>Very brave...
to mark as "Editors' Choice" the only letter bashing the other letter writers.<
And cowardly as all get-out for the authors/editors not to address negative comments about this strip. Seems to me someone is cutting Schlesinger and Bachtell a big-time favor--and that SALON _is_ elitist in how they pick what material to run. And here I thought it was only neo-cons who pulled this kind of crap...
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So now I get the idea...
...every week they include an appalling spelling mistake so that people who care about the English language will focus on that and not on what a load of tosh the whole thing is.
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Reaching a judgement
Snoopy (typing at typewriter): "It was a dark and stormy night. . .Suddenly all sorts of shots rang out. POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW!"
Lucy (after reading the above): I didn't think it was possible. Your writing is getting dumber all the time.
Snoopy: Anything is possible.
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Let's be reasonable
I read Salon for a lot of reasons: Joan Walsh, Gary Kamiya, Keith Knight, Garrison Keillor, Sidney Blumenthal (I'll miss him!) and just generally getting a liberal slant on the news. The comics are icing (well, except for Keith Knight, who's frequently brilliant). But this icing is rancid.
98% of the commenters so far today range from disliking to outright hating this comic. They've been saying so for weeks. C'mon Salon. Even if you've already paid for more strips, we'd all be happier if you returned to the old schedule of WayLay on Tuesday and no comic on Friday than if you keep on publishing this dreck. And I don't even like WayLay much.
I know breaking up is hard to do, but really, just rip that band-aid off quick instead of torturing us slowly.