What Happened To Comics
A kid came by months ago raising money selling newspaper subscriptions so I obliged. I guess as a parent now I can sympathise and really do not mind helping kids out with school type fundraisers. I was hesitant though - I don’t read the newspaper outside of the one you get from USA Today at hotels (actually stopped even doing that after seeing some hotels charge you for it) but I saw this as a growth opportunity and also a way to stay up to date with local news outside of the local tv news (local tv news = 15 minutes of news repeated from 5-6 and then again from 9-10).
Turned out I only opened the ad sections which included the comics. Oh those comincs…memories or reading them on Sunday’s when my dad would be drinking his coffee and reading the grown up stuff. So I was excited to see how blondie, rose is rose, garfield, dennis the menace and the rest of the crew were doing now as an adult. NOTHING - they SUCK. Comics are stupid! Really dumb, boring wastes of time and not funny at all. Granted I read at a 6th grade level I could be to intellectul but I don’t think so - they just suck.
It will be interesting in a few years when Ryder starts reading what he thinks about the comics. I’d be willing to bet the novelty and excitement has more to do with children being excite to participate rather than the content. Even then shouldn’t they offer enciteful content for the kids to keep the interested?
That being said I no longer receive the paper. My paid 8 week subscription has ended (only after another 8 weeks of the DMN still delivering) and now the only thing I miss is knowing what Target and Best Buy have on sell week to week.
9 months ago