Pearls Before Swine is definitely one of the best syndicated comics, mostly because it's not afraid to poke fun at the other bland, repetitive comics on the page. Remember the hullabaloo when Blondie turned 75 back in 2005? All the other characters from the funnies page were "invited" to the special-edition Blondie Bash, but for some reason Pearls was snubbed. Good thing, too, because that series of comics was a lot funnier than Blondie's single-panel finale of a bunch of crudely drawn approximations of classic characters all saying "Happy Anniversary" (I would have posted a link to it, but apparently the strip is so prone to copyright infringement that its creators haven't allowed it to be posted online).
At any rate, Pearls is at it again, this time with a series about a fundraiser to save newspapers (and, in turn, the comics page) from extinction. It started yesterday, but it's already on a roll with today's jab at soap-opera-style comic Mary Worth. I can't wait to see who's next.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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