The Sweet Up and Down

I honestly never would've guessed it but apparently Spider-Man is not an elephant. Don't believe me?


Here's the full comic strip just in case you wondered about the context.


Now aren't you glad that's all sorted out?
~Brian
P.S. Does my Mood Cat look like he's humping something?

Does this make you laugh?

How about this?

One more try. This?

I don't know if you chuckled and frankly, I don't care. According to an article in The Toronto Star, bashing comic strips online is becoming a growing fad. I joined the comic mockery department about a year ago making fun of the comic strip The Born Loser. For some reason, I really hate that comic strip.

I've been reading comic strips since I could read and almost immediately saw it as an art form. An art form that has systematically been bastardized by the standards set back in the early twentieth century. They are not given room to grow and when the original creator passes away, usually the strip falls into the hands of someone who may or may not pump new life into it. Sadly, for every long-running strip kept alive for nostalgic reasons, that spot in the paper could be used to showcase another strip that could be funny and original.

But I have continued poking fun at The Born Loser in a blog I started almost a month ago. I'm hoping to expand it and make fun of other strips I find and maybe, someday, continue the comic strip I created back in 1997. Also, there are other blogs out there I link to on mine that will also hopefully amuse you. I reccommend The Comics Curmudgeon and The Amazing Spider-Blog.

Also, some really good things have been happening lately. I'll let you know in a bit.
~Brian

I need to try to limit my Internet usage. I spend too much time just goofing around. It's very sad. I have a novel, a superhero short story, chapter two of a serial and blog to write. I've left the addiction of MySpace for the addiction of Facebook but luckily I don't actually have to do anything on Facebook. Everything I would update on a regular basis can be automatically done. I also did something very drastic: I deleted my blogs on MySpace. I made a record of them and deleted them because out of the 78 only about 25 were viable reading material and the rest needed to be extinquished. Plus I'm tired of being haunted by my idiocy.

Cameran, who is five, is currently bragging to me that his writing is better. I brought up that I wrote a book. Apparently he has to. 150,000 pages of brilliance that he threw away because he thought it was dumb. His next book had 150,850 pages and, yes, he threw that away too. I don't know if I want Cameran to get into writing because as much as it'd be kind of cool having a son follow in my footsteps, I feel he's much better for the theatre. He has quite the personality, originality and, for lack of a better word, moxie to pull off being a very good actor. If he does become a famous actor maybe he can either change his name to the correct spelling of 'Cameron' or make the incorrect 'Cameran' spelling the norm.

Slylock Fixed Comics Not For Kids
I love Pearls Before Swine. This comic made me laugh out loud this last Sunday because I used to read Slylock Fox in the Kansas City paper and see it constantly mocked in The Comics Curmudgeon. The reference to Jerry Scott is a nod to the co-creator of Baby Blues and Zits. I love the question about which comic was around when Hitler invaded Poland.

Until next time, I remain...
~Brian