...and keeps on sucking! (First!)

Check out the Kansas O'Flaherty Remix. I made it, but I don't know why!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjvuVHpk10

Do you think the guys with guns are from PETA?

ok, so the inner ear analogy was a bit odd, but it was inventive. and I can't resist Bachtell's classic style - makes me feel like I'm back in Boston with a pile of sweaters in one corner and a pile of unread New Yorkers in the other.

oh - to preempt the paid Anonymous poster-for-Hillary,

The cops are really looking for OBAMA, that cheater. GO HILLARY!! You are the best! Hillary 2008! Rah Rah Rah.

I just realized nobody's yet made any Hilary: US puns. Now that I've written I see why.

anyway, great job toni/tom.

...then that makes Kansas the world's biggest Q-Tip.

Harold, I wish I had as much time as you! Clearly, your remix is better than the strip has been. You actually told a story! Nice work...

- HaroldHaller's youtube video, that is. I like!

Too bad K O'F still sucks, though. : (

Did you write the narrative? It was so perfectly 30s detective nouveau! Great voice work, nice job with the graphics, really, you hit it out of the park. This comic really doesn't deserve your talents.

That? That was great.

Nothing could make following this "comic" worthwhile, but that came a lot closer than anything I could have imagined.

I'm hoping that was a parody of the "Editor's Choice" letters.

Reading a comic by toni and tom is like working in the inner ear canal. It's ugly, it stinks, and you're left in the dark. I'm powerless to resist it because the letters page reminds me that I'm not alone in thinking that this strip sucks. It makes me feel like I'm in New York City Dumpster with a pile of vomit in one corner and a dead bum in the other.

oh - to preempt the paid Anonymous poster-for-tom-and-toni,

This strip doesn't suck so bad! It's getting better, really!

I just realized nobody's apologized for the crappy quality (yet). Now that I've written I see why.

anyway, totally subpar job toni/tom.

I have one complaint about your otherwise stellar job: Someone seeing it might assume that the original material is anywhere near as good as what you've done with it. I would spare the unfortunate that pain.

Excellent work; too good, in fact, considering the source.

This strip has improved over the last couple weeks, dag nab it. and who knows what body part will be featured next week? we've been working our way down from the top of the head. perhaps the neck. anyway, I thought KOF postings were getting a bit unkindly so I thought I'd kinden them up a bit.

These two clearly don't need any encouragement. They cash their Salon paycheck every week and phone in another four panels of disjointed crap.

And, no, it hasn't improved over the last couple of weeks. A month ago, it was awful. Last week, it was awful. Today, it was awful.

A collaboration by Jim Davis and Bil Keane would be preferable. Sure, neither one has done anything funny in about 30 years, but at least we'd get two unfunny panels by a couple of guys who actually have a basic understanding of the comic-strip form instead of four from a couple of people who don't.

My immediate reaction on seeing the first panel was, "are you f*cking kidding me?"

Then I read the rest of the strip.

Are you f*cking kidding me?

Stand by for advertiser roll-call.

Man, it was painful today. Most of these are hiding behind ContactUs forms now, I created tinyurls where I could.

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So, being a spy is like working in the inner ear canal?

Creating this comic must be like working in the intestines. It is small, dark, and there is little air. It is full of noisome odors. And the end product is worthy of nothing more than a flush, as soon as possible.

1) "Inner ear canal?!" There's a simile I never would have thought of. (Thank goodness.) At least that was one panel that the artist didn't have to knock himself out on...

2) It says a lot that an episode that _should_ be about Kansas coming to grips with her profession (or whatever) and having some kind of emotional breakthrough (or whatever) is as empty and undramatic and straight-up still-not-gonna-tell-you-shit-nyah-nyah as the rest of this strip has been.

3) This is episode _13_ of this drivel, right? IIRC, that's at least four more eps. than the infinitely better DARK HOTEL got. :P

Slammin', homes. Cornell Woolrich woulda been proud of you. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich

And it was a shock to see these images coupled with narration that not only made sense, but was actually...dare I even whisper it..._dramatic._ What's the music on the soundtrack, btw?

This strip reminds me of the footage posted online in William Gibson's novel. In the book, blogger try to figure out what it means by grasping for the smallest piece of context that'll make it all make sense. (Forget how it ends now.) Here, posters are trying to comprehend why the strip is so terribly bad. ( Will the purpose eventually be revealed? Or is it me? Do I just not get it? Is it all a cruel joke? Is there a salon of art snobs somewhere in New York laughing at us all?)

I read the strip. Then I read the letters. Sometimes I'm entertained. Mostly, I snore.

Oh, c'mon! Somebedy help me.

Who is the old New Yorker cartoonist whose style is being copied in panel 4? And who was the New Yorker cartoonist whose style was being copied last week depicting the stern lady with the tiny feet?

PS -- I thought the pen in panel 1 was depicted quite well. The inner-ear bones, however, made no visual sense.