USpol, a break to consider
If you need a break today, you might try reading any forum where people talk about newspaper comics, because there's people on it who are *very* cross about the new Mark Trail writer.
Yeah, you hate to see people lose a thing they were fans of. But it's also people *very* cross about Mark Trail, and that's a cozy teapot-tempest to watch.
There's also some people still cross about the new Alley Oop writer and *that* changed almost two years ago.
re: USpol, a break to consider
@Austin_Dern The only one that actually makes me sad/mad is watching people throw shade at the woman who's doing Nancy, because she's BRILLIANT and exactly what that comic needed.
re: USpol, a break to consider
@zebratron2084 [ Taking a long sip of water ] Fortunately I'm sure there's absolutely no deeper implications behind online vitriol directed at Nancy writer Olivia Jaimes, Alley Oop writer Joey Alison Sayers, or Mark Trail writer Jules Rivera.
re: USpol, a break to consider
@zebratron2084 [ And there may be legitimate non-sexist reasons for the intensity of criticism. Like, everybody in the world likes to drag on Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft, and Tom Batiuk's very much a guy. And everyone who hasn't rage-quite 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn agrees Brooke McEldowney needs to stop writing comic strips. ]
re: USpol, a break to consider
@zebratron2084 I can understand people who think Olivia Jaimes's Nancy is overrated and that's fine. Maybe telling people in your social circle that you think it's overrated. But past that?
I mean, the guy who draws Beetle Bailey has no idea what squirrels look like but insists on sometimes drawing them, and nobody goes on about *that*.