Don't ping my cheese
I'm four days late talking about this, but it's been a weird week for me. Anyway...
So we get a bizarre story arc that ends with Liz revealing that she likes Jon, and later giving him a kiss goodnight. Then, as if it never happened, we get a week of generic strips with Jon doing something stupid around the house and Garfield reacting in his trademark almost-funny way. This had initially led me to believe that the Liz thing wasn't the start of a new paradigm, but simply an isolated night. Not so, it turns out that they're officially dating. And they're about to go on their first official date as a couple.
For starters, I'm almost tempted to be resentful that I'm actually devoting any of my brain energy to caring about what happens in this damn strip. For many years Garfield has been the poster boy of stale, mediocre, only-sometimes-funny comic strips. I'd glance at it every day, and sometimes chuckle. Now I'm giving a damn about the fate of Jon's love life. It's wrong, I tell you!
Second, now that I do give a damn, I'm really wondering how this will turn out. Is this actually the genesis of a new paradigm (in other words, will Jon and Liz be a couple from now on, perhaps getting married), or is Jon going to screw this up? Only time will tell, I suppose.
Anyway, on to other things.
Yesterday's Dilbert made me laugh way more than Dilbert usually does. Not only because Dilbert's line in the last panel is funny in itself, but because there's a certain shock value. Using the word "retarded" in nearly any context these days is extremely un-PC. I have to admire Scott Adams for taking the risk. It turns out that some newspapers edited the strip, replacing the phrase "mildly retarded" with "an idiot" in at least one case. So I wonder how they're going to edit today's installment.
Aside from the occasional addition of eyebrows to indicate anger, Dilbert is always drawn exactly the same, but somehow in that last panel I can't help but think "the look on Dilbert's face is priceless".
Anyway, I predict that "don't ping my cheese with your bandwidth" is going to be an instant internet catch phrase.
So we get a bizarre story arc that ends with Liz revealing that she likes Jon, and later giving him a kiss goodnight. Then, as if it never happened, we get a week of generic strips with Jon doing something stupid around the house and Garfield reacting in his trademark almost-funny way. This had initially led me to believe that the Liz thing wasn't the start of a new paradigm, but simply an isolated night. Not so, it turns out that they're officially dating. And they're about to go on their first official date as a couple.
For starters, I'm almost tempted to be resentful that I'm actually devoting any of my brain energy to caring about what happens in this damn strip. For many years Garfield has been the poster boy of stale, mediocre, only-sometimes-funny comic strips. I'd glance at it every day, and sometimes chuckle. Now I'm giving a damn about the fate of Jon's love life. It's wrong, I tell you!
Second, now that I do give a damn, I'm really wondering how this will turn out. Is this actually the genesis of a new paradigm (in other words, will Jon and Liz be a couple from now on, perhaps getting married), or is Jon going to screw this up? Only time will tell, I suppose.
Anyway, on to other things.
Yesterday's Dilbert made me laugh way more than Dilbert usually does. Not only because Dilbert's line in the last panel is funny in itself, but because there's a certain shock value. Using the word "retarded" in nearly any context these days is extremely un-PC. I have to admire Scott Adams for taking the risk. It turns out that some newspapers edited the strip, replacing the phrase "mildly retarded" with "an idiot" in at least one case. So I wonder how they're going to edit today's installment.
Aside from the occasional addition of eyebrows to indicate anger, Dilbert is always drawn exactly the same, but somehow in that last panel I can't help but think "the look on Dilbert's face is priceless".
Anyway, I predict that "don't ping my cheese with your bandwidth" is going to be an instant internet catch phrase.
posted by uglinessman @ 4:02 AM
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