Title: Garfield Stinks, and Heres Why...
Product review: I don't blame cartoonists for merchandising their creations. But when the comic strip itself seems like an extension of the merchandise - thats when the label "sell out" applies.Garfield is a perfect example of what is wrong with the Comics Page today - it is filled with strips that should have ended a LONG time ago, and have no new ideas or jokes to convey. They give us slight variations on the same jokes and situations day after day, their only reason for continueing on seemingly to implant their marketed image in our heads further.And most of the strips that don't fit this descriptionare newer attempts at BECOMING what I described above.The really great strips - Bloom County, The Far Side, Calvin + Hobbes ... their creator's knew when to quit, before their humor and style got bland and repetitive. Garfield, however, appears to be FOUNDED on bland and repetitive humor.How will he kick Odie today? Look how he wolfs down that lasagnia! Boy, he sure hates mondays!...
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