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Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - SteveO - 09-17-2019
Tied for my favorite cartoon with C&H. Let this be true!
Peanuts with a close second, for sentimental reasons.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - Dennis S - 09-17-2019
My guess is that the archives are coming online with a first-class presentation and tasteful advertising. He probably figured out a good way to make lots more money off of it.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - RAMd®d - 09-17-2019
My 'Complete Farside' won't be
I feel your pain.
If there's new material, I'll have to destroy my copy immediately and hope there's a Really Complete Far Side.
Same with my Calvin & Hobbes, which would be the best close second.
My guess is that the archives are coming online with a first-class presentation and tasteful advertising.
If that happened, I'd pay to eliminate the ads, and keep the Far Side Calvin & Hobbes to use as free weights.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - Dennis S - 09-17-2019
I think the ads will be along the lines of what you see on PBS - less in your face and tasteful.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - 3d - 09-17-2019
I'm guessing ad-free.
Leaning more towards it being subscription based.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - Thrift Store Scott - 09-17-2019
Acer wrote:
[quote=Thrift Store Scott]
Although he is in no way credited for it, the visual style of Zits, especially the large-format Sunday color editions, is so strongly reminiscent of Watterson's work on Calvin & Hobbes that I've often wondered if he didn't contribute a strip or two on the sly.
Someone pointed out to me that Zits could be thought of as Calvin in his teenage years. (Though his existential introspection is largely dormant...for now.)
True, but as a trade-off his friends Hector and Pierce are pretty clear manifestations of his Super-Ego and Id, so in that respect the inspiration has gone from Kierkegaard and Sartre to Freud, which seems appropriate to a story centered around a hormone-soaked teenager.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - Dennis S - 09-17-2019
3d wrote:
I'm guessing ad-free.
Leaning more towards it being subscription based.
Yeah, I didn't think of that.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - RAMd®d - 09-18-2019
True, but as a trade-off his friends Hector and Pierce are pretty clear manifestations of his Super-Ego and Id, so in that respect the inspiration has gone from Kierkegaard and Sartre to Freud, which seems appropriate to a story centered around a hormone-soaked teenager.
I didn't think of that, either, but now that it's been mentioned, it makes perfect sense.
Re: Please Let This Be True - The Far Side Returns! - N-OS X-tasy! - 09-19-2019
The problem with this is... we currently live in a reality that is stranger than anything Larson ever imagined. I fear his new work might pale in comparison to day-to-day life.