Letters to the Editor
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Here's A Few Better Cartoons That I Prefer Greatly
http://www.clowntimecomics.com/
http://www.slowpokecomics.com/
http://www.rall.com/
http://www.suttonimpactstudio.com/
I would even subscribe to Premium if they killed this horrible shit.
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Unanswered questions
Now that our heroine is traveling the world over, who is taking care of her multi-lingual German Shepherd (the only character I have come to care about)?
In the section called "About the creators", Toni Schlesinger (creator and writer of "Kansas") is described as "a New York-based journalist, fiction writer, theater artist". What exactly is a "theater artist"?
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The CRISPO file -- "A file that could result in the planet exploding"...
Hey! Take this seriously. There will be no gum chewing.
Danvers Lunatic Asylym. It is to weep. I know about your night fevers and the shakes.
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<< One of the reasons I'm seriously considering moving to London someday is because radio drama is still done over there and presents some nifty writing opportunities.>>
They have an annual playwriting contest open to anyone, deering. This year's winners are probably still on the BBC Radio website somewhere. And they produce 12 radio plays a week - all available on bbc.co.uk. If you need help finding them, just ask.
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wow....
I didn't know it could get worse. I wasn't going to read the thing this time. Just read the letters but the spelling mistakes comments made me look. Are these people teenagers? Seriously, are they maybe teenagers? I just cannot find any other explaination for how horrible this is while Salon keeps pushing it.
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Decided to Google these people
I thought it would help me understand this drek and why Salon is running it.
This does explain it a bit:
http://www.thelmagazine.com/lmag_blog/blog/post__11140701.cfm
So apparently this is what Toni does. "Stream of consciousness" columns and comics. The fact that this is what it is and our reactions must be what she is going for. She must be beside herself with glee over our letters if this blog has any truth to it.
I guess this guy is a fan. He says, of KOF,
As always, it's like watching someone unscrew her own head, shake out the contents, and then screw her head back on and ask you what you're gawking at.
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Concerning Asylym
Danvers Lunatic Asylym is a name. It is therefore conceivable that the spelling "Asylym" is ironic, rather than inept. However, the perception of ineptitude has pervaded the audience so strongly that we lose the ability to give the authors the benefit of the doubt.
On the off chance that the authors see this, please take note:
We need to have a lot more faith in you before we will trust the irony of such a spelling rather than assume it is in error.
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This is the first one of these that I've read
...so I had to go back and look at the first few to see what the fuss was about.
I ran a college newspaper back in the late 80s, and we had a comics page filled with amateur strips because, frankly, we needed to fill space. I can't for the life of me figure out what Salon's excuse is.
All defenses of this comic can be instantly destroyed with a quick read of "The Emperor's New Suit." All attacks against this comic are no doubt in vain, which is one of the reasons why I no longer have a subscriber icon by my screen name.
By all means, please carry on the mental masturbation.
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No cute title comes to mind
"Toni Schlesinger interviews famous puppets in the manner of Charlie Rose"
I thought that was Camille Paglia .......
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No cute title ....
How about "Clarence Thomas is not a sellout"?
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Toni Schlesinger = Yesterday's Julia Alison
Neither of them have any purpose except to dumb down the public discourse even further with their pseudo-hipster media ravings... just a pair of annoying Scary Sadshaws...
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me no likee (I'll say it again)
It's all been said already; all the technical, aesthetic, and general "I'm disgusted" comments have all been made. I'm just checking in to register my weekly protest and to add my small voice to the chorus baying for this strip's blood.
Hate it. Kill it. It contributes to my weltshmertz and that is not a good thing.
While I'm snarking, I'd just like to say that: this week, the lobsterman has memory problems. Last week, he claimed to remember everything perfectly and said "I'll never forget" or some such line.....
well, okay, that was a tryst with Kansas, or so implied, so maybe that's different (maybe he remembers sex but not violence?), but why does he claim good memory in one panel and practical amnesia in the next????? And Kansas kills/knocks out a guy and then in the next strip she cries 'cause somebody's after her? I mean c'mon, she's a top spy and she CRIES when she's in danger?
Well, with everything else that's wrong with KOF expecting psychological consistency from the characters is wayyyyyy too much, clearly.
Not to mention I'm getting very sick of her weird little face, and she's the only character we see all the time, so her face is important; it's a parody of the blonde bombshell stereotype and all, but it never moves, it's not interesting, it looks like a very creepy doll whose eyes follow you. It's too much of a parody, it has no personality.
I'm going to quit snarking, it's like my weltshmertz--once I get started on it I'll never be able to stop.
Going to go get coffee, and try to forget this ever happened. Ugh. Yuck.
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please, this sucks
Sorry I'm late to the party, but I've been avoiding this strip until now because the art in the little preview icons and the teasers put me off. I just read the archive. In all the strips so far, there's no movement, no emotional stimulus, and besides it's dull to look at.
Last week's starred letter suggested that Salon picked this comic as a social experiment, and it's meant to suck.
May I suggest that there are a lot of artists out there who don't suck, that some people pay good money for Salon, and that Salon should maybe patronize some of the good artists instead of wasting space on bad ones?
My husband, looking over my shoulder, says: "This comic makes me sad. No one wants to be untalented. It's tragic."
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You people obviously did not go to a public school.
Haven't you ever heard of a gymnatorium? It's a combination of a gymnasium and an auditorium. The Danvers Lunatic Asylym is obviously a combination asylum and gym, and asylym sure sounds better than asylunasium.
Is it me, or does the guy's face in the first panel look like a mask? It's drawn such that his face does not look like it is physicaly connected to his head. Maybe I don't understand art nuvo.