I like the reference to "stupid" blogging from the excellently mean Rat character, but more so I like the crocodiles inability to work a computer. Inability with computers always makes me chuckle - if you're of a certain age then they are a really alien technology, so perhaps it's a bit cruel to poke fun, but where's the fun in that?
So special mention to a friend of Mrs P's parents who phoned up to enquire if he used coloured fonts in Word, would the ink in his monitor run out? And to Mrs P's mum, who picked up the mouse and pointed it at the monitor like a remote control and said "Why isn't this working?". Ho ho.
Category: Cartoon
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I'm sure I've told everyone this before, but my mother once expressed concern at my trying to buy Morrissey tickets online in the evening, not because it was Morrissey, as you might expect, but on the grounds that surely the internet would be closed for the night....
I like the crocodiles in 'Pearls' a lot - I like the way they always speak in lower case type, and their bizarre mangling of the English language. I've enjoyed the recent storyline about Jojo the croc being a talk radio host, for use of the line 'Me no wear pants. It feel guuuud', if nothing else.
Catherine
That particular cartoon might well be making an appearance on CotW soon. I think Pearls is my favorite strip of the moment, although I'm really enjoying Boondocks. However, Boondocks has caused controversy by becoming a regular strip without having gone through the qualifying rounds.
When the Boondocks is good, it's very good - for example, the first one on this page:
http://joshreads.com/index.php?cat=11
However, Aaron McGruder has got lazy - there's far too many strips with characters watching TV and commenting on it. Less of that, more of the dancing MLK, I say. I think the animated Boondocks series starts in the US this week - doubt it will make it over here but would be worth checking out if it did.
What are the 'qualifying rounds?'
Catherine
Yep, fair comment about Boondocks - perhaps the guy's attention has been distracted away from the strip like was suggested when Matt Groening started doing Futurama.
The qualifying rounds were the establishing competition, alluded to here, that set out the cartoons I would limit myself to following. However the art of Boondocks has appealed nicely to me so I have granted it full cartoon status without having to undergo the obligatory 10-day trial period for new strips.
Writing this has made me realise I have been stuck in the same over-heated office for too long.
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