Dammit, Doc-- I *want* my crazy raped-by-space-alien-tentacles-and-evil-tree-roots manga!

Oh well. I guess I'll settle for this stuff, as long as I can get an anime chick that looks just like MSNBC's Chris Jansing. Ya gotta love the Stewie Head!

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

How absolutely typical of Stale to portray Watterson's brilliant, joyous work as your ordinary gloomy, leftist, anti-corporate rant.

My wife was part of the crop of manga-ka from whence Van Von Hunter sprang, and I can say that unless you are an anime affictionado , you could probably care less one way or the other.

That is, unless you really go for anime style catgirls, in which case you need to visit the Wilde Home for Wayward Catgirls:

http://www.bewildered-art.com/catgirls

Just recognize that in spite of the fact that I am (and the wife is to a lesser extent) are Right Wing Death Beasts, we continue to love those crazy Japanese influences...

For a country so small, Japan is an impressive "cultural exporter", second only to the anglosphere. (Even back when I was a kid, every girl who was anyone had all the latest Hello Kitty gear.)

I will always remember.

Ahhh,

You've hit on the reason why newspaper circulation fell by at least ONE. I bought my last newspaper the day they quit printing Calvin and Hobbes.

Morons.

I suppose they have to do something, but I suspect that a couple of watered-down manga strips is not going to turn the tide of millions of younger people who get their news and information pretty much exclusively from INTERNET.

Call me a prude, but I, for one, feel quite strongly there’s little room for tentacle rape in newspaper comic strips, even if tastefully done.

What? There's always room for tentacle rape. Haven't you been reading For Better or Worse lately?

There's actually some potential here.

Who here wouldn't mind to see Zonker Harris go head-to-head with Tetsuo Shima?

You know, one thing they could do to get the interest of the kids is maybe try to put the newspaper on those newfangled computer boxes all the kids are talking about.

I know, it would lose some of the charm of having someone throw a sack of wet, filthy, ink-smeared garbage on your doorstep, but at least you'd still get to pay to read what people who are no smarter than you tell you how to think.

Wow. Peach Fuzz got a mention in "Ferrets" magazine.

Peach Fuzz Accolades Keep Rolling In

Kudos

"Bloom County," the first time around - none of that "Outland" crap for me, thanks - was better.

But Calvin and Hobbes is a close runner-up.

If anybody cares, Rex Morgan, M.D. actually has a current storyline about a badly wounded Iraq vet. It's still unclear what political statement, if any, they're trying to make.

A few months ago, they had a storyline about somebody who died of cancer after he lost his job and couldn't afford health insurance, but they didn't come out and blame either political party.