The Unfunnies: Buddy

Johnathan | August 28, 2010

If last week’s comic was a bit too funny to deserve its place here then this little number - from Superman No. 19 - may just swing too far in the other direction. Sorry about that, unless you think the idea of little children punching one another in the eye is hilarious, of course.
Hee hee… [...]

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John Bought Comics, Honest

Johnathan | August 27, 2010

I’ve had a terrible tendency lately to let the slightest bit of business on a Thursday evening derail me from writing those reviews that I do, but I will battle against those procrastination impulses with the only weapon that I have: brevity! Yes, by telling myself that it will take less time than usual, I [...]

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The Unfunnies: When in Doubt…

Johnathan | July 26, 2010

As with a lot of the unfunny comics of yore, I really enjoy the art on this one, and the first panel in particular is pretty terrific. But it has one fatal flaw…

… it has a punchline so terrible that it exerts physical force, knocking the straight man on his ass. This is almost never [...]

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The Unfunnies: Kitty McTabby

Johnathan | July 19, 2010

From the 40s to the 60s, super hero comics frequently featured more cartoony, comic-relief one-and two-page strips in addition to the action-adventure style stories that were advertised on the cover. Sometimes these stories were somewhat related to the main feature - Aquaman comics frequently featured the adventures of Homer the Skin Diver, for example - [...]

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On Superman

Johnathan | July 17, 2010

Oh, hello. I was just thinking about about Superman.
Now, despite my intermittent grumbling about the military conspiracy as over-used plot device and "turning the public against super-heroes with little to no effort" as over-used plot device that we need to go back in time and assassinate before it rises to power, and despite widespread tongue-clucking [...]

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