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The Sunday Funnies (6/6/10)
 June 6, 2010 1:00 am
This week’s crop: Wulffmorganthaler (6/3) by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morganthaler; My Cage (6/4) by Ed Power and Melissa DeJesus; Lio (6/3) by Mark Tatulli; and Rubes (6/1) by Leigh Rubin. (Thanks to Jim Lahue, Jed Martinez, Kurtis Findlay and David White) |
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EVENTS
RECENT BREW TV EPISODES By Sitji Chou. A man tries to understand the futility of creating human connections when they’ve been impeded by the microcosmic void between material particles.  By Nikolas Ilic. A story of a Scottish sheep farmer who shears his sheep and tosses them cliff side…  By Dylan Hayes. Lesson 1: Everyone gambles, not everyone loses. Lesson 2: The world is full of traps. Lesson 3: You cannot win if you don’t take risks.  By Jean Yi. A personal and humorous exploration of being the ‘Nice Girl’ and coming to terms with the label and all its different meanings.  By Ferg Brennan. A lonely fisherman catches an unusual fish, which he decides to keep as a pet. |
Made my day, especially the second strip.
Quite a collection this week.
Wulffmorganthaler: A rare case of today’s hip, deliberately-ugly artwork actually working in favor of a strip. Not to my tastes, but pretty well done. (And please, don’t anyone show this to Brett Ratner…)
My Cage: I think I’m going to have to add another comic strip to my daily routine; this one made me laugh harder than any other in quite a while. (Y’know, they could use the same first three panels for a later strip, then change the punchline to James Cameron’s “Reservoir Dogs” or Tarantino’s “Reservoir Avatars” or some such…)
Lio: There are hundreds of villains from books or DVDs that Mark Tatulli could’ve used for that gag, but I don’t know if any would’ve been better than Monstro. Nicely done.
Rubes: Decent premise and drawing, but the gag was just undermined by lame staging, IMHO.
The first one is undermined by a very awkwardly written caption.
“Smurf” as a swear word is something I don’t think will ever stop being funny.
Lio is just priceless. I agree with Jody on this one, Monstro is just perfect. I think it’s mostly because while “scary”, he’s not really a villain per se.
Also agreeing with Jody on the Rubes one. It’s just so painfully staged.
I shared the “Lucky Charms” cartoon on facebook and was immediately accused of racism by an Irish citizen. I just thought “Dirty” Harry facing down a cartoon spokesman was funny.