playa hatin' (or, let's get a few things straight)

[rone]

Penny Arcade is not funny.
Dave Barry stopped being funny around the time Reagan left office.
Achewood is not funny.
The Onion was funny until they started repeating themselves sometime around `97.  They'll occasionally have a good zinger, but most of their stuff is telegraphed to hell and back.
Jerk City is not funny.
Sinfest is funny until you realize it's a adolescent ripoff of Bloom County with the main character being two-thirds Milo, one third (Watterson's) Calvin.
Something Positive is not funny.
David Letterman is funny only when compared to Jay Leno.
McSweeney's is not funny.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

you can't honestly claim that a literary work has to be accessible to be good.

Well, naturally, but i thought we were talking about Achewood.

Seriously, if a comic strip requires more work to understand than "Doonesbury", it sucks. Period.

I read the first quarter or third of my brother's Jerk City book. I almost burned it.