That friend who's a big fan of T K Ryan's comic strip Tumbleweeds and can't understand why I don't even know how to have a reaction to it.

Everyone to their own tastes, certainly, but friend can't understand how I don't see the genius of the comic or even how it's different from Gordon Bess' Redeye.

I don't want to tell someone their favorite comic strip is dull but ... I mean, *wow* but Tumbleweeds was a dull comic strip.

snark; tumbleweeds o_o 

@Austin_Dern I... I... it took me much longer than expected to figure out if what I was seeing on their (rather Web 0.1) homepage was a brilliant satire of a really dull and hilariously stereotypical fictional long-running comic... or just a really dull comic.

I mean, I genuinely read through six or seven strips and still was leaning towards "clever satire," a la the "Castle Funnies" from Strong Bad 181 ( youtube.com/watch?v=1Apf122RI_ ). I think a big part of it was the weirdly archaic and inconsistent typography. It looks like it was typeset by a Subgenius with a hangover, for a Kiwanis bowling league newsletter...

Boy, that sure is a comic strip all right. Got little guys in it and words and everything. *charitable smile*

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