tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post8226835421920178896..comments2023-05-29T05:39:03.467-04:00Comments on private matters and public things: Say what?Sammy Wheelock aka "SW"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12838650350541903735noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-81115874790034418542011-09-13T11:15:38.213-04:002011-09-13T11:15:38.213-04:00I think you have made your case, sir!I think you have made your case, sir!Sammy Wheelock aka "SW"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12838650350541903735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-47179607470548639962011-09-13T09:15:32.879-04:002011-09-13T09:15:32.879-04:00The Archie comic series has been repetitious rubbi...The Archie comic series has been repetitious rubbish since its inception. How it hangs on and continues to publish is a mystery to me.<br /><br />In an uncanny twist, given Archie's recent abuse of the theme of electoral recounts, my first sighting of the word 'unconstitutional' occurred in some Archie product. Archie's school paper declared on its front page, 'Homework Is Unconstitutional'. I asked my mother what the word meant. Sadly, I do not recall her answer. But there it is: constitutional abuse and cheery contempt for education all in one image aimed at children by ignorant writers carrying on a franchise that debases the comic form. 'Everything's Archie!'Jeff Strabonehttp://jeffstrabone.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-44263728970574908982011-09-13T00:31:41.186-04:002011-09-13T00:31:41.186-04:00I would be eager for anybody to explain to me how ...I would be eager for <i>anybody</i> to explain to me how any of the cartoons were worth having in the world - the Doonesbury aside, because it is clearly part of a narrative arc. <br /><br />(I am curious though: did Archie <i>ever</i> have much use? I ask that question seriously, as someone who is not an expert in comics, but who remembers reading some Archie and Jughead when I was much younger, and finding them fairly unconvincing? Oh, and <i>Sugar, Sugar</i> doesn't count; I really loved that song.)Sammy Wheelock aka "SW"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12838650350541903735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-34969916529271213562011-09-12T17:39:10.775-04:002011-09-12T17:39:10.775-04:00The Archie cartoon is despicable. I cannot contain...The Archie cartoon is despicable. I cannot contain my irritation long enough to make an articulate statement. Why has this garbage been inflicted on my world?Archie has outlived whatever use it may once have hadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-54499312906611557822011-09-12T12:41:25.378-04:002011-09-12T12:41:25.378-04:00Oh, sorry, did I respond to the wrong part of your...Oh, sorry, did I respond to <em>the wrong part of your blogpost</em>? Silly me!Lars Ulrichnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-21538601404947419032011-09-12T07:48:06.766-04:002011-09-12T07:48:06.766-04:00I'm not particularly interested in freetard ar...<i>I'm not particularly interested in freetard arguments </i><br /><br />So don't make them!Lars Ulrichnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-70884857022080388872011-09-11T18:38:50.779-04:002011-09-11T18:38:50.779-04:00Yes, I managed to get them in, although in a rathe...Yes, I managed to get them in, although in a rather ugly way? <br /><br />Of course, Lars, you're quite right about the conflation of the two groups, and I thank you for pointing that out, clearly getting to the the real heart of the post (and not a frustrated, rushed addendum as I tried to get this damn computer to do what I wanted it to do while worrying about having to re-write the whole damn post, without <i>any</i> desire to do so); that having been said, I'm not particularly interested in freetard arguments and although I suppose I would be delighted, <i>delighted</i> to be in the position to refuse advances and royalties from a published volume, I've never found myself in that position.Sammy Wheelock aka "SW"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12838650350541903735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939540709666345656.post-67649287910894764602011-09-11T17:41:13.327-04:002011-09-11T17:41:13.327-04:00The people who produce the cartoons are not the sa...The people who produce the cartoons are not the same people as the people who print the cartoons. Conflating these two groups and bitching at them for being overly concerned with their "intellectual property" is the worst kind of weakass freetard internet whinging. Or perhaps you intend to refuse all advances or royalties from your next published volume as some kind of free-IP hero?<br /><br />Also, I can see the cartoons in this post.Lars Ulrichnoreply@blogger.com