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Zits is a fairly popular comic, probably because most people can relate well with it. I admit even I have smiled at it occasionally. But today's is an example of a joke wearing out its welcome. Yes, some high school students' backpacks are excessively heavy. Yes, some teenagers are disorganized and fill their backpacks with junk. Yes, this can be used as a joke. But with Zits, it has become the fallback joke, used for days at a time when the artists (yes, there are two of them--you'd think at least one could come up with something different) apparently run out of ideas.

Speaking of worn out jokes, Brevity is apparently seeking the world record for fastest gag gone bad. I was actually fairly intrigued at the beginning of the week, when it started what it calls "The First Annual Clamato Week." Monday's and Tuesday's comics were above average and even drew a chuckle from me, but the past two days have been disappointing at best. For Wednesday's panel, the artists (again, there are two of them...I'm beginning to sense a trend here) apparently thought that writing the dialogue in Spanish would automatically make it funny. It didn't. And today's is just bland, although it could have been improved by replacing "real life" with "the wild." Hopefully the rest of the week will be as funny as the first two.