The lure of gag strips is almost always too much for Jules Rivera to ignore, so Rivera’s continued forays into humor wipe away any chance of actual drama or danger. Today is another good example of Rivera succumbing to her inner Peanuts. Too bad she wasn’t offered the job of taking over an abandoned, but still published humor strip, such as Get Fuzzy (in spite of the fact that it is published by a different syndicate).
But why stop there, when she could make a pitch for rebooting Peanuts. Or even Dilbert!? There are precedents: Numerous old gag strips have already gone through one or more reboots, such as Nancy, Gasoline Alley, Alley Oop, and Popeye.
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Just want to point out that if Diana’s the only one who knows how to operate the camera (which seems to be the case), she’s got plenty of leverage that she’s not using.
Maybe Jules could take over Crankshaft; it’s not like Batiuk is doing anything with it at the moment.
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“…leverage that she’s not using.” – Good point.
“… it’s not like Batiuk is doing anything with it at the moment.”
And for how many other running strips can we say the same thing?!
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I would not wish Peanuts fans nor Dilbert fans or Gasoline Alley fans have to put up with Rivera’s inane art work or story lines. That would be cruel. On the other hand, maybe then we’d get a cartoonist for Mark Trail that bears a resemblance to the original.
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Surely, you wouldn’t want to see another Elrod, with his figures formed in playdough with pinched faces and awkward poses!? At least Photocopy Allen brought the style closer to Dodd’s (Hill’s) original concept.
But truly, Peanuts either needs to go or it needs a new look. How many times can one sit through another episode of MASH?! And I think Rivera would be a shock to the system, to say the least. It’s a gag strip, after all; no insipid storylines to develop (not that the prior stories were all that much better). And here’s the kicker: We see how many months go by before anybody notices.
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