OK, I call this meeting to order.

It's just too weird. At least there was continuity from last week's episode.

As Grover Norquist might have said, maybe we can shrink interest in this strip down to a size where we can drown it in the bathtub...

this comix is great

She looks sickly. Like she might be dying? Could it be? Please!

Lotty? Lottie.

And if Kansas spoke "Chinese," she would speak Cantonese or Mandarin.

This series is so stupid that not only is it embarrassing for hipsters of whom Toni seems to think she is a member, it is embarrassing for stupid people, a group she definitely does belong to.

And the lack of dramatic action, and the disjointed storyline, makes this series the Mary Worth or Rex Morgan for a new generation. Here's a suggestion: Remove a panel from each strip--it won't make a difference which one--and change the layout to horizontal. Then maybe you can get it off Salon and into a more suitable publication.

Why do you need to remove a panel in order to publish this strip on toilet paper?

So, are we heading back to fourth-rate Bond cliches next week. Damm--I was hoping Kansas would do the Douglas Sirk-scenario thing. Or, better yet, get stuck in a Coen brothers' flick...

I never thought it would happen, but the story is actually starting to fall together. If you re-read the whole series, the earlier episodes make sense based on what we know now...it's sort of a Momento effect.

Hahahaha! Psych!

Are you kidding me?

This strip has no design principles, no fundamental character development, no continuity, no flow, none of what those strips have. No evidence whatsoever that Comic Art 101 was even audited, never mind passed. This dog's breakfast is not fit to scrub the inky nibs of Dale Allen or Dal Curtis.

And I don't like Mary Worth or Rex Morgan. Never read'em anymore... I'm not 9 anymore. But just a glance on any given day is enough to tell you that they're decently put together, and don't insult those who do bother to read them with the "Hahahaha you're not hip enough to get this" bullshit that is all that there is of the KOF aesthetic.

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Maybe four panels isn't enough for the story to be told in. A couple more panels and there wouldn't be such a jarring jumping between the third and fourth one.

I would like to know how Kansas came to be. Unless we study history, we are doomed to repeat it. History shows that comedy is hard.

I would also like to know if the editors really read these letters. The comments have been consistent from the start, the strip "needs improvement".

Has anyone started a "predict the last Tuesday Kansas will appear" pool?

I'm in for July 14, 2008.

It's still here.

What's she saying in Urdu? Looks like it was lifted from a Bollywood song.

Not that it probably means anything.

I did like the line 'Tomorrow they'll make me do the Cha Cha'.

So we have Kansas O'Flaherty, super international secret agent, trained to deal death in her sleep. But a couple of small-time jail house thugs are able to force her to dance to exhaustion against her will?

Couldn't she just kill them both in about 0.3 seconds if she wanted to?

No, really, the joke is on us just for reading this tripe. Schlesinger and Bachtell are snickering together every week at the thought that they have tricked thousands of people around the world into reading their cartoon. It probably takes more creativity and artistry to come up with this fake "gotcha" comic than it would to make something intended to be actually amusing.

I think this week's installment is showing that the strip is growing and finally hitting its stride. Not only does it make sense, but it's quite humorous. The art is becoming more in sync with the comic style, and I am starting to get the feel for the emergent story and continuity.

I think the creators are finally starting to get it. I am actually looking forward to next week's update.

It does seem strange that for an international spy who knocked out another of the same with one little 'ole slap that she's helpless in jail.

But nothing in the strip makes any sense. To keep from going crazy she has to recite her foreign language skills in her head...you'd think she was in there for years...but then...after ONE night...

she's also already out (employing a well-worn cliche as usual). Next week she'll be somewhere else, probably without the mysterious Marie, who like Beni and Schlomo and lobster guy Joe will just drop off the face of the earth with no explanation.

It's no use thinking about it. It's just *stoopid*. Which is not okay if it's not funny, because if it's neither funny nor smart that effectively destroys the only two reasons for its existence.

It's really badly drawn this week too. Lazy is the only word that comes to mind.

is this Marie character doing floating around inside the prison, in a theatre cape no less?

If its an exercise in abusrdity its not going far enough, and if its not then this is just...absurd. No excuse for it either way.

So the strip is "much improved?" Perhaps it has made it all the way to the level of "really bad?"

Well, I disagree, but reasonable people can disagree about things like this.

But. The reason you don't show yourself is...?

Just askin'