I give up on 9 Chickweed Place
C The Shocker
replaced another comic on my Chron list and I've been too lazy to remove it.
This comic makes absolutely no damn sense. It's not very funny, and although
the drawings of the women are somewhat attractive, it can't make up for the
estrogen-laden storylines (the ones that I can decipher, that is) that are
unfunny and impossible to follow.
"Prince Valiant" was easier to read than this.
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Carl Fink
> I've tried to follow this comic for the last several weeks because, well, it
> replaced another comic on my Chron list and I've been too lazy to remove it.
>
> This comic makes absolutely no damn sense. It's not very funny, and although
> the drawings of the women are somewhat attractive, it can't make up for the
> estrogen-laden storylines (the ones that I can decipher, that is) that are
> unfunny and impossible to follow.
It does make sense, but you're coming in at the wrong time: the middle (or
hopefully near the end) of what seems to be the interminable "frustrated
romance" sequence.
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Freezer
> It does make sense, but you're coming in at the wrong time: the
> middle (or hopefully near the end) of what seems to be the
> interminable "frustrated romance" sequence.
I bailed out when the sequence was just starting, and wss merely
beating the "Designated Main Couple Breaks Up Over Nothing" dead horse.
Nothing I've read here in the months since has made me re-think that
decision.
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Carl Fink
> If I don't respond to this Carl Fink post, the terrorists win.
>
>> It does make sense, but you're coming in at the wrong time: the
>> middle (or hopefully near the end) of what seems to be the
>> interminable "frustrated romance" sequence.
>
> I bailed out when the sequence was just starting, and wss merely
> beating the "Designated Main Couple Breaks Up Over Nothing" dead horse.
> Nothing I've read here in the months since has made me re-think that
> decision.
I'm wondering if this is McEldowney's version of Sluggy Freelance's "Oceans
That Absolutely Refuse to End" storyline--the one that drives away a huge
chunk of readers, to the absolute mystification of the creator.
Antonio E. Gonzalez
wrote:
>On 2008-10-25, Freezer <free...@hotSPAMTHISmail.com> wrote:
>> If I don't respond to this Carl Fink post, the terrorists win.
>>
>>> It does make sense, but you're coming in at the wrong time: the
>>> middle (or hopefully near the end) of what seems to be the
>>> interminable "frustrated romance" sequence.
>>
>> I bailed out when the sequence was just starting, and wss merely
>> beating the "Designated Main Couple Breaks Up Over Nothing" dead horse.
>> Nothing I've read here in the months since has made me re-think that
>> decision.
>
>I'm wondering if this is McEldowney's version of Sluggy Freelance's "Oceans
>That Absolutely Refuse to End" storyline--the one that drives away a huge
>chunk of readers, to the absolute mystification of the creator.
Thanks a lot for reminding me of that storyline; it picked up
towards the end, but the rest was downright painful to read at times .
. .
The Torg Potter storylines also tend to be skip material; then
again, I haven't read Harry Potter, so it just might be a case of
being unable to appreciate it . . .
Oh, for the days of the Storm Breaker Saga . . .
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Freezer
win.
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC), Carl Fink
> <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
>>I'm wondering if this is McEldowney's version of Sluggy
>>Freelance's "Oceans That Absolutely Refuse to End" storyline--the
>>one that drives away a huge chunk of readers, to the absolute
>>mystification of the creator.
>
> Thanks a lot for reminding me of that storyline; it picked up
> towards the end, but the rest was downright painful to read at
> times . . .
>
> The Torg Potter storylines also tend to be skip material; then
> again, I haven't read Harry Potter, so it just might be a case of
> being unable to appreciate it . . .
>
> Oh, for the days of the Storm Breaker Saga . . .
At least with the Torg Potter storylines , Abrams seems aware that
many people skip them and come back when their over, and just has
fun with it.
Carl Fink
> The Torg Potter storylines also tend to be skip material; then
> again, I haven't read Harry Potter, so it just might be a case of
> being unable to appreciate it . . .
Adams is by far at his worst when he tries to do straight parodies of
someone else's fiction. See "Muffy the Vampire Baker" for incontrovertible
evidence.
Joseph Nebus
>On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC), Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com>
>wrote:
>>I'm wondering if this is McEldowney's version of Sluggy Freelance's "Oceans
>>That Absolutely Refuse to End" storyline--the one that drives away a huge
>>chunk of readers, to the absolute mystification of the creator.
> Thanks a lot for reminding me of that storyline; it picked up
>towards the end, but the rest was downright painful to read at times .
>. .
Could you describe it a bit for us folks who never got into
Sluggy Freelance to start with?
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> Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> writes:
>
>>On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC), Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com>
>>wrote:
>>>I'm wondering if this is McEldowney's version of Sluggy Freelance's "Oceans
>>>That Absolutely Refuse to End" storyline--the one that drives away a huge
>>>chunk of readers, to the absolute mystification of the creator.
>
>> Thanks a lot for reminding me of that storyline; it picked up
>>towards the end, but the rest was downright painful to read at times .
>>. .
>
> Could you describe it a bit for us folks who never got into
> Sluggy Freelance to start with?
>
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. My wife was at one time a big
Sluggy fan, and so were many of my friends, so I tried very hard to get
into it, and I just kept bogging down and putting it aside.
Ah well, can't fancy everything. Who has the time?
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Carl Fink
> Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> writes:
>
>>On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC), Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com>
>>wrote:
>>>I'm wondering if this is McEldowney's version of Sluggy Freelance's "Oceans
>>>That Absolutely Refuse to End" storyline--the one that drives away a huge
>>>chunk of readers, to the absolute mystification of the creator.
>
>> Thanks a lot for reminding me of that storyline; it picked up
>>towards the end, but the rest was downright painful to read at times .
>>. .
>
> Could you describe it a bit for us folks who never got into
> Sluggy Freelance to start with?
He took one of the SF supporting characters into another dimension with a
bunch of new characters. His plan was to debut a whole new cast and new
stories, but since it was still masted as "Sluggy Freelance" people thought
of it as "that longass Bun-Bun story." And the story too months to get
anywhere, the ground rules were arbitrary, and the setting wasn't as
interesting as Abrams had hoped. As the weeks turned into eternity (or so I
hyperbolize) people started wondering what was up with the normal SF cast,
who hadn't been so much as mentioned for several seasons.
Andrew Ryan Chang
>> Could you describe it a bit for us folks who never got into
>> Sluggy Freelance to start with?
>
>He took one of the SF supporting characters into another dimension with a
>bunch of new characters. His plan was to debut a whole new cast and new
>stories, but since it was still masted as "Sluggy Freelance" people thought
>of it as "that longass Bun-Bun story." And the story too months to get
>anywhere, the ground rules were arbitrary, and the setting wasn't as
>interesting as Abrams had hoped. As the weeks turned into eternity (or so I
>hyperbolize) people started wondering what was up with the normal SF cast,
>who hadn't been so much as mentioned for several seasons.
Sounds like a saner version of Wapsi Square, then.
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Heather Kendrick
Rob Wynne <d...@america.net> wrote:
> I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. My wife was at one time a big
> Sluggy fan, and so were many of my friends, so I tried very hard to get
> into it, and I just kept bogging down and putting it aside.
I've probably mentioned this here before, but I took against the strip
immediately when it was new because its creator made the unforgivable
faux pas of posting a binary to alt.devilbunnies to promote it. I held
this grudge for a long time, refusing to read it even as some of the
other alt.devilbunnies people became fans. Eventually I did look at it
some and had the sense that I hadn't missed anything.
Heather