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Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast<\/a><\/i> is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!<\/p>\n

Mary Worth,<\/i> 6\/8\/25<\/p>\n

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Many of our most beloved deranged Mary Worth<\/i> storylines end abruptly, with antagonists just straight up driving off a cliff or whatever<\/a>, but I’m sorry, there is a lot<\/i> to take in just in this single strip. The bell by which the Westons were saved<\/a> was rung by … Belle’s brother? Who has tracked her down somehow because he suspects she’s off her meds, probably because she failed to check in with him? And also (and sorry, but this is much<\/i> more important), he’s literally just a taller version of Wilbur?<\/i> Like she spotted Wilbur across a TGIFridays in Tampa and thought, “Oh my goodness, he looks just like my beloved brother … but more squooshed! I’m gonna FUCK HIS BRAINS OUT AND MURDER ANYONE OR ANYTHING WHO COMPETES WITH HIM FOR MY ATTENTION!<\/i>” Because that’s wild, possibly the wildest proposition this strip has ever asked me to buy in the 20+ years I’ve been reading it. And it’s clearly not the first time something like this has happened! “I’m sorry<\/b> about this, shorter me!” Avery says. “I hope I came in time …<\/b> there are no visible corpses, so I’m assuming I did, but sincere apologies if not!”<\/p>\n

Mother Goose and Grimm,<\/i> 6\/8\/25<\/p>\n

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The joke here is whatever, but I want to point out that it’s weird that Grimm is in the corner there watching this breakup go down. It’s a long-established aspect of this strip that it alternates between jokes involving the well-established cast of characters and sub-Far Side<\/i> one-off gags<\/a>. Feels like some new executive in charge of the syndicate sent down a note like “In order to reinforce Mother Goose and Grimm’<\/i>s brand identity and lay the groundwork for future merchandising initiatives, every strip needs to feature one of the two beloved title characters, who casual readers definitely know by name and can identify.”<\/p>\n

Panel from The Lockhorns,<\/i> 6\/8\/25<\/p>\n

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Funniest thing here is that this is, I assume, their own house. Not sure if Leroy is very drunk or very sleepy — or, more cruel and therefore more likely, if he’s doing a bit and Loretta refuses to even give him the satisfaction of acknowledging that he’s doing a bit.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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