Letters to the Editor
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First!
I think they've been looking at Little Nemo in Slumberland...
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Sigh
Still don't get it. Last week was an anomaly, I guess.
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Simple story questions it would be nice to have answered at some point in this life, 'cause y'all still haven't given us a reason to care about this
1) Who does Kansas work for, and what's their goal?
2) Why is she a spy in the first place?
3) What's at stake for her with this case (and why should we care?)
4) What kind of person is she (and why should we care?)
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Bleyech
I'm at a loss for anything else.
Tom Tomorrow actually made me laugh this week; I cringed at this KoF.
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out up in
Anything this out has to be up to something. Could be something good. I'm hanging in a bit longer.
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Let's write our own story. I'll start
Suddenly, a shot rang out...
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Suddenly a shot rang out...
...and killed this piece of crap.
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The pictures are too big for the story
I know! What if the pictures were only 1/4 the size and there were four times as many of them? There could be enough story development in one episode to hold some possible interest in what's happening and what's coming next.
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At least
we can look forward to Keef on Wednesday!
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Kansas O'Flaherty...Sucks Again
I did a comic strip for my college paper, and it sucked. So I know when a comic strip sucks. This one sucks.
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Wait, wait, what's this?
Guys, I think I may be the first one brave enough to say this, but this one doesn't suck as bad as the previous ones. As someone pointed out earlier, it seems like Someone Up There (the God of Cartoons) is listening. The dialogue? No longer entirely composed of inane references. The narrative style is no longer straight exposition. The words and the pictures actually are STARTING to work WITH each other instead of following parallel tracks, and the art is becoming legible and detailed.
Note: I said it sucks less than previously. It's still by no means a GOOD strip, but it's clear that we're watching a learning curve here.
PRoblems: dialogue is still basically exposition too much of the time, handeled clunkily--"Look! Those are my oil derricks! They provide money!" What is the motivation for the character to say this at that point?
In fact, we are still totally lacking a sense of plot or character--the vomitous first couple of weeks of this strip have left us with no sense of who KoF is or what she's trying to accomplish in this kingdom, or who this king is.
Still, I dig that he's wearing a chess piece on his head.
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It's not better if you make it bigger
Maybe they will have corrected this error later, but at the time I read it the strip was 966 X 1588 pixels, making it so big even one panel was off the edges of my browser. Since this isn't true for any other toon, the problem is the image file, not my browser. It's like KO'F finds a new way to be inadequate every week. Again, don't care about what is going on because there's no real characters or plot and, now that they strained puns and references have evaporated, no humor or camp style. Just tiny notes of whimsy which make Funky Cancerbean seem like a farce in comparison.
Again, as many others have said, the pages of Salon is not the place to publish someone's half-assed attemt to learn cartooning when thousands of polished and professional strips are available.
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Super Fugly
and senseless. Since there are giraffes, I will assume they are in Africa. However, the king looks like an evil little Euro-baron, or maybe, with stretching, a Middle Easterner.
The third panel is supposed to do what for us exactly?
Personally, I think the art has gotten worse, not better.
It's evolving every week, but the evolution has not progressed in any direction in particular. They're just trying out different things. Why do they have to do this on our time?
Why is he poking her on the nose? Looks intrusive, un-kingly, and dumb.
Let's make it interesting. Have the king hit on her or something.
Also, it's too big. It wasn't data reduced or something. Making it huge doesn't make it more likeable.
I'll just wait until tomorrow and then read the hate mail. That's the fun part of KOF.
P.S. Hate it. Kill it now. After a couple of weeks even the hate mail won't do it for us.
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Dangit, I keep forgetting there's no Waylay!
Sigh. Now where will I get my Tuesday morning comics fix?
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Aircar
Yeah yeah yeah ..... plotless and pointless. Klunky dialogue. Been there, bought the T-shirt.
But the howdah on top of four giraffes? That's FUNNY!
A shame they couldn't come up with four different expressions on four different giraffes.
Hope they have a photocopier repair contract.
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Aircar
Yeah yeah yeah ..... plotless and pointless. Klunky dialogue. Been there, bought the T-shirt.
But the howdah on top of four giraffes? That's FUNNY!
A shame they couldn't come up with four different expressions on four different giraffes.
Hope they have a photocopier repair contract.
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Duplicate
No idea why or how. Moving along .....
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Just goes to show ...
... it's not what you know, it's who you blow.
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That would properly be
whom, but who cares?
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Enough is enough
I'm impressed by the optimism displayed by those who are stretching to find something good to say about this cartoon. Unfortunately, the best they can say is that it's not as bad as last week or the other previous strips. While Salon is not Carnegie Hall, the answer to the old joke is still valid here. There are smaller venues that are more appropriate for someone to learn how to do a comic strip. Once the authors get the hang of it, Salon might be the right forum for them, but for now, it's not.
Salon's editors should take the hint from the overwhelmingly negative tone of the letters that have followed all of these strips and replace Kansas O'Flaherty with something better. There are lots of candidates out there.
John
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My last comment on this stip
Still sucks
Will always suck
Salon now has unalterably, irreparably, added permanent suckitude
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An oldie but a goodie
I took exception to your recent comic on Salon.
It was (check all that apply):
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