Garbagefield

Do you remember when the comic strip Garfield was funny?

Yeah, me neither. I mean, I guess I thought it was funny when I was a kid, but I suspect that had to do much more with the lower standards of my youth than any decline in quality over time.

The thing is, Garfield is quite the punching bag around the internets.

There's the Random Panel Generator, which illustrates that Garfield isn't any worse (and is sometimes better) when random panels from different strips are thrown together.

There's Garfield Minus Garfield, which shows the strip is more effective as a depiction of a schizophrenic Jon Arbuckle, by removing Garfield from the strip using Photoshop.

There's an article from a few years back, maintaining that Garfield was actually manufactured to suck, so as to avoid any pop culture backlash that could damage its lucrative merchandising.

Not that I think any of that criticism is undeserved. Man, does that comic strip suck out loud.

Pencils Down

I've been a fan of the comic strip Fox Trot for many, many years. I can almost even say decades. (Yikes!) Unlike other comic strips I thought were funny when I was a kid that I look at today and scratch my head in "what was I thinking?" confusion (I'm looking at you, Garfield), Fox Trot has stayed just as funny over its long life.

As 2007 has rolled around, Fox Trot's creator, Bill Amend, has decided to sort of pull up stakes. He's not doing a full-on Bill Watterson (sniff, Calvin and Hobbes) and ending the strip completely. But he's cut back to only doing one strip a week, on Sundays.

Part of me wants to resent it. I mean, how hard could it possibly be to come up with one four-panel comic strip every weekday? But then, I suppose to maintain a good level of quality, it can't be entirely easy. I mean, I make a blog post every day, but let's face it -- some of them are crap.

Then again, I don't get paid to blog as a career.

I suppose, though, since it is a career for Bill Amend, if the man wants to semi-retire from it, he's entitled.

Still, we're only a few weeks into this new schedule, and I'm already feeling Fox Trot withdraw.

A Soft Shoe Routine

A friend of mine did a little text editing to create this humorous illustration of one downside to living on the third floor of an apartment building.

If Your Coffee Table is Lonely

Pricey, but oh, so very worth it.

More Serenity Comic Humor

Like the title says...

Sith Happens

This speaks for itself.