Point/Counterpoint
By Mitch Berg
The dextrosphere has been shaken to its’ puritan roots by yesterday’s installment of Chris Muir’s “Day By Day”, which was too revealing for some consumers (NSFW – if you work in a kindergarten, convent or Minnesota Public Radio).
In the interest of public service, we’ve brought in experts on both sides of this controversy. On the right, Captain Ed:
As for yesterday’s entry, I think Chris went over the top. That won’t keep me from supporting Chris and his comic strip nor cause me to rethink my association with it.
Also from the right, Learned Foot:
KAR Thong or not, this is an encouraging trend. Yes – I say “trend” intentionally. I have taken to time to plot the occurrences of thong-clad women in Day by Day, and as you can see, the pattern is striking:
There you have it.
Developing…
December 13th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
It’s about time we had a strip that pretty much cuts and pastes talking points from various blogs into the speech balloons of 1990s dorm pinups. I’m not so much concerned with the thong as I am aghast at what the fellow in the first panel seems to be doing with his hand.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
It’s about time we had a strip that pretty much cuts and pastes talking points from various blogs into the speech balloons of 1990s dorm pinups.
Sort of like “This Modern World”, only conservative and with some aesthetic value?
Bingo!
December 13th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
First of all everybody agrees that there’s no use debating whether DBD or TMW is the funniest strip, since anyone who went the DBD route would have to be a glue-sniffing pufnstuf. Besides, you yourself put your own judgement into question recently when you said that Michael Richards was a poor physical comedian, which is like saying Jackie Gleason didn’t know how to project. Second, if you honestly believe that DBD has “some aesthetic value,” as thin a compliment as that is, then you have really stripped yourself of any authority in this matter, and I would shudder to think what the inside of your house looks like.
December 13th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
First of all everybody agrees that there’s no use debating whether DBD or TMW is the funniest strip, since anyone who went the DBD route would have to be a glue-sniffing pufnstuf.
Which is better than the latte-guzzling, overly-self-image-inflated, intellectual-legends-in-their-own-“minds” that think TMW is anything but the pompous drivellings of a guy who didn’t get the Beetle he wanted for his birthday and has decided to take it out on capitalism and his daddy’s party for the rest of his extended adolescence.
Besides, you yourself put your own judgement into question recently when you said that Michael Richards was a poor physical comedian, which is like saying Jackie Gleason didn’t know how to project.
Buncombe. Gleason was great; Richards has always depended on the competence of his writers.
Submitted as Exhibit A: Fridays.
Game, Set and Match, Mitch.
Second, if you honestly believe that DBD has “some aesthetic value,” as thin a compliment as that is, then you have really stripped yourself of any authority in this matter, and I would shudder to think what the inside of your house looks like.
Being a straight, unmarried male, shuddering is in order. But anyone who doesn’t think Sam from DBD is aesthetically wondrous should trade his testicles in for some tasteful furniture, because they’re obviously never going to be used.