Letters to the Editor
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Getting better (slowly).
Another 50 pages and they may well have a comic strip.
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@ deering
I respectfully disagree with you about the strip -- I'm going to give it some more time before I tank it (though not THAT much. But you're dead-on about "Get Your War On" and "Shooting War". Those two definitely deserve serious attention.
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What
Okay look just stop publishing this one page at a time. It might work at a pace of more than four panels a week.
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I HAVE TO READ THIS COMIC BECAUSE IT IS THERE
Why--so the editors will think we like it and offload more on us?
Wait - you think you're actively being subjected to it? The existence of a comic you don't like isn't damaging to your health. Otherwise Mallard Filmore would be responsible for a holocaust.
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Still here?
I took a week away and hoped that someone at Salon would've killed this. Apparently not...
Although it's more legible now, it's still incoherent, sloppily made, ugly, and nonsensical.
I am paying for Salon , and I expect some modicum of quality for that in all of Salon's publishings. Fix it. Now.
(By "fix", I mean replace with something better ASAP. Many others have suggested excellent ideas).
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I wonder...
If the tomato throwers are supposed to be LWs :-D
I sure love the opening panel though!
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Here comes more face-saving spin…
…as trial balloon letters suggesting a deliberate anti-humor angle. Tom & Toni didn’t actually poo themselves, it was all on purpose to incite a riot as performance art!
Whew! Now, they (and the Salon editors) can show their faces in downtown bars again as the cultural pranksters they be. With enough shellac, the turd becomes art! Pure Genius!
You know, I come to Salon as my favorite neighborhood hangout to see old friends (all the other comics), share a smart laugh and an insight. Instead, smack in the middle of the bar, is a couple of louts, self-affected and loudly yammering on their cell phones, a disappointing soil on an otherwise fine time.
If it’s a joke, end it now. If it’s a mis-step, show some dignity and end it now.
There is no point to pay attention anymore. The Letters of the Outraged have been fun, but it’s all been said. One more reason for NY to be the Fly-Away-From state…, goodbye.
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the second panel....
with the obvious spook sitting next to her one the plane, is just-about, almost, funny.
The "info-dump" is by now obviously some self-glorifying reel spinning in Kansas' own head, or the creator's. Some kind of Walter Mitty device.
It's still too incoherent, there's not enough there, and there does not seem to be any driving idea behind the strip, just free-association pratfalls every week.
Nope. Still hate it. Nice try, though.
Still awaiting an editorial explanation for the mess. Salon, why so silent?
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I mean, Salon.....
you do understand by now that it IS a mess...
don't you?
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Terrible
Where did you find this crap? This comic is just horrible, it is the worst!
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Question time
Since I'm already tired of bashing this strip (for the record I still think it sucks) -- my read on that final panel is that Kansas is getting out of the plane at a World Economic Summit meeting, and those are radical protestors in costumes throwing rotten vegetables. Why would that be? I dunno, that's just what it looks like to me.
Aaaaaaaand...one more time Salon: hundreds, no really HUNDREDS, of talented comics artists out there just waiting for their big break. Please.....?
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If You Kill This Lame Comic Now
That last panel would be a fitting epitaph for this lame pile of shit.
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Whooee!
KOF will never be as entertaining as the letters! I suppose that's some comfort to someone, somewhere.
And to think, while this brouhaha is brouhaha-ing, there are women being killed in Basra for not wearing the veil.
Is this a modern world or not?
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Ugh...
Man, this comic is so bad it gave me cancer!!
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dear lord, they've gone META
I'm seeing us there, with the tomatoes - and the blacked out word reads like "Salon" to me.
In a sense the comic has gotten one small step better this week (because something identifiable is actually happening) but in this it still manages only to hi-light its failure.
See, now the comic itself has agreed that the only thing actually happening under the title Kansas O'Whatever is the fierce criticism being hurled at it.
And I must agree with the sentiment that this is too precious a space for well-connected comic strip novices to be cutting their teeth in. It is insulting and smacks of elitism.
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Hacking KOF
The only thing this turd of a comic strip seems capable of germinating is reader responses. As Salon descends into irrelevance, it seems to be relying more and more on interactive media and controversy mongering to generate reader responses as a cover for its increasing lack of serious content and stale perspective.
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Let me know when someone can ID the body cause this thing's dead
A suitable replacement?
Crumb
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The hacking KOF that won't go away..
This is the significance of KOF, Camille Paglia, ect. If you can't dazzle them with journalistic brilliance, distract them with provocative bullshit. It's a page click either way...
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All the children are above average!
To judge from the few not-100%-hating letters here you'd think Salon was the Special Fucking Olympics:
"the art is getting somewhat better"
"There're working on it, it looks like"
"If you want the strip gone, try to ignore it."
"Rather than pointing fingers at the strip, maybe [grumpy letter writers who demand actual quality] should be pointing fingers (or throwing tomatoes?) at themselves.
What is this, kindergarten?
Everyone's a winner! Everything you're doing is beautiful! Here, I'm going to tape your wonderful comic strip up on the fridge where we can look at it every day.
Gimme a break. The strip demeans its readers, its creators, Salon, and American liberalism itself. Kill it already.
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A dangerous journey in the cold rain?
Maybe this is one for 'Ask the Pilot' but isn't always cold at the altitude commercial ariliners fly at? I'm lucky; I always manage to get an inside seat.
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It's not what you know...
"A weekly feature on Salon is not the place to cut your teeth or learn your craft. Nor is it an appropriate venue for hobbyist side projects. This strip should be replaced by one where the authors and artists take the medium seriously and have already paid their dues."
As a stuggling cartoonist who'd kill for a spot on the Salon calender, I couldn't agree more.