The story of my avatar

Odradek

Odradek

Odradek

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Aliroz

I had a peanuts collection with that arc in it.  I always liked how successful Charlie Brown was as Sackman.

He had at least one glorious victory that nobody can take away.

Tachyon

that was surreal

Klinotaxis

these are a lot different from the peanuts i'm used to and now i can see why people liked the comic so much.

Imipolex G

reading older Peanuts strips can be kinda weird if you're only used to the late-period stuff.

my grandma used to have some books of the early strips and it was a revelation just to see how the style changed over the years...

Odradek

Klinotaxis said:

these are a lot different from the peanuts i'm used to and now i can see why people liked the comic so much.

I like how the storyline just keeps going making a weird kind of surreal semi-sense until it reaches a nonsensical conclusion.

Sredni Vashtar

It's almost a Kafka setup in just how the absurdity escalates, plateaus, almost lulls, then reaches a crescendo.

Salix Babylonika

w....what????

I'm so confused.

I feel

inspired.

Odradek

queenpoison said:

w....what????

I'm so confused.

I feel

inspired.

Well you see Alfred E. Neuman was the mascot of Mad Magazine, a once popular American satire magazine, and his catchphrase was "What! Me worry?"

Salix Babylonika

it's like the antithesis of a punchline

Odradek

queenpoison said:

it's like the antithesis of a punchline

Sredni Vashtar

Section42L

Section42L

The story in the OP is fantastic, BTW.

Anonus

>Mad magazine

>once popular

And then what? You kill some more, O Grim Warner Bros.?

Odradek

I think it still exists, it's just gone downhill with the rest of print media.

Obā-san

contemporary Mad is a nauseating trainwreck

Section42L

naney said:

contemporary Mad is a nauseating trainwreck

A fair bit of it is, yes, but all their classic artists were and are still tops in my books.

Klinotaxis

queenpoison said:

it's like the antithesis of a punchline

anti humor doggggg

Anonus

Odradek said:

I think it still exists, it's just gone downhill with the rest of print media.

Well yes, but Warner Bros. still kills its IPs

Section42L

Anonus said:

Odradek said:

I think it still exists, it's just gone downhill with the rest of print media.

Well yes, but Warner Bros. still kills its IPs

Anyone else would've turned Mad into Generic Clickbait Site #500 by now, so as inadequate as they are, they may unfortunately be the best possible owners of it at this time.

lee4hmz

I remember that Peanuts story, but from one of the specials ("It's an Adventure") and not the strip itself.

Odradek

Good thread

glennmagusharvey

neeuq yriaf said:

that was surreal

indeed

CarnEvil said:

I think it still exists, it's just gone downhill with the rest of print media.

at one point, Baloo the Bear from Disney's The Jungle Book promoted it