Someday... Someday Rex Morgan M.D. Will Make Sense

Seil · 08-21-2011, 06:41 PM

So if you're unfamiliar with the comic strip, the linked example should provide all the clues you need. The conclusion is that it's... well, it's a well-drawn newspaper comic that always seems as if it's just five seconds taken out of a soap opera.

Maybe... maybe it is a soap opera? Maybe it would make more sense if I read it all at once? Maybe it's the cartoonists fever dream? The point of the funny pages is to be funny. Slipping in Rex Morgan atwixt Foxtrot and Dilbert doesn't make it funny.

POS Industries · 08-21-2011, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Seil

The point of the funny pages is to be funny.

I view newspaper comics like going to a casino. You go into it imagining the allure of Rat Packesque coolness from days long past (Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, Bloom County), maybe have a slim chance of winning occasionally (Fox Trot, Dilbert, Zits), hope to at least break even and maybe catch a decent complimentary show by an aging comedian past his prime (Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, classic Peanuts), usually just end up losing everything you came in with (Funky Cancercancer, BC, For Better or For Worse), before finally getting dragged out by the pit boss and get your teeth knocked out in the back alley (Family Circus, Hi and Lois, Marmaduke).

And then later someone suggests you go back and you think, "Hey, why not? Should be fun!"

Seil · 08-21-2011, 07:48 PM

And occasionally an homage or a bastardizaztion of classic properties.

Also, has Family Circus ever been funny ever?

08-21-2011, 06:41 PM	#1
Seil Super stressed! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: British Columbia Posts: 8,081	Someday... Someday Rex Morgan M.D. Will Make Sense So if you're unfamiliar with the comic strip, the linked example should provide all the clues you need. The conclusion is that it's... well, it's a well-drawn newspaper comic that always seems as if it's just five seconds taken out of a soap opera. Maybe... maybe it is a soap opera? Maybe it would make more sense if I read it all at once? Maybe it's the cartoonists fever dream? The point of the funny pages is to be funny. Slipping in Rex Morgan atwixt Foxtrot and Dilbert doesn't make it funny.

08-21-2011, 07:48 PM	#3
Seil Super stressed! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: British Columbia Posts: 8,081	And occasionally an homage or a bastardizaztion of classic properties. Also, has Family Circus ever been funny ever? Last edited by Seil; 08-21-2011 at 07:52 PM.

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