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May 30, 2008
Wii Pals
Gone is the miniature elephant.
In with the cultural reference that made me scratch my head in utter confusion.
Instead of focusing on new gadgets and technology, alternating between love and hate, Stantis should instead at the end of each strip do a little panel bump-out like Morrie Turner's Wee Pal's 'Soul Corner' or Brad Anderson's Marmaduke's 'Dog Gone Funny' or George Gately's Corpse's Heathcliff's 'Kitty Korner'.
Teach us a historical lesson. Give us a dogecdote. Share with us a slice of cat. Give us something, anything to distract us from how capital A Awful this strip really is.
It's done wonders for the careers of Turner, Anderson, and Gately, whose strips are thriving -- THRIVING -- decades and decades past what one would assume to be their shelf life. These aforementioned artists are not only household names in the comic strip families like the Brubakers, but also in general, normal families, like you and me.
My kid just the other day she said, "Hey, Pops, the art in this children's book is very Gately-esque. Just lookit how that cat pops out of the frame." Or this one time she said to me, "In the comic world of Brad 'the Duke' Anderson have you ever noticed the sizing of the dogs in relation to the humans?" Or then there was this one time when she was remarking on her pre-school class: "Someone needs to go all Morrie Turner on my class...we need another black kid, and a hispanic, and a blackspanic, and another black kid, and yet another black kid, and a goofy white nerd kid in glasses...we need one of those too."
Anyway, Scott: time to revamp the strip if you want a shot at the Hall of Fame.
With love from me to you.
