Saturday, September 13, 2008 Telling the same story...twice POST A COMMENT 'Secretly fantasize 'bout going back in time and having a 'do-over...'I might finally get a few things right. 'For Better or for Worse scribe -- Lynn Johnston (60), decided instead of retiring she'd start-over -- “If I could do it all over again,” Johnston writes in one recent Sundays installment: “would I do some things differently?” She would, and she will. As she says here in this clip (above), the strip will now be about 50 percent new stuff mixed in with the old stuff -- or what she calls new-runs. Sweet, half the work for the same paycheck --(another secret fantasy of mine). 'Wonder if this keep-working has-to-do with her marriage recently ending... Could be...'she needs the extra cash to nurture the cougar buried inside us all -- “I never thought I’d be single at this time of my life,” she said in that interview. “And with that in mind, I still want to work, I still want to keep my hand in it.” 'Just make sure you wash that hand before coming to dinner... Source: Winston-Salem Journal Labels: Comic strips online, For Better or for Worse, Lynn Johnston posted by Henry Cruz at 7:30 PM Thursday, August 07, 2008 N. gets a thumbs up... POST A COMMENT I'm lovin' Stephen Kings' "N." -- it really works as a fun online comic book -- (and will also appear in his upcoming collection Just After Sunset '08). It's the story of a "psychiatrist named Johnny who is treating a severely disturbed patients" that has an eerie watchable quality closer to NBC's Heroes...'definitely worth a-look-see... ** new episodes all month Nishere.com Labels: Cell Phones, Comic strips online, Nishere.com, stephen king posted by Henry Cruz at 5:00 AM Friday, July 25, 2008 There's a comicbook in my cell phone... POST A COMMENT Here's a stupid-idea - (unfortunately backed by some really clever folks)...'make a comic book that you can watch on your cell phone. I'm all for new technology, but Mobisodes?? - why not just make this for youtube? Maybe I'm out-of-touch...but, I don't see people sitting around watching their cell phone?? Sounds like a waste of talents -- (sorry Mr. King...this one blows). Labels: Cell Phones, Comic strips online, Marvel, Mobisodes, stephen king posted by Henry Cruz at 11:12 PM Monday, May 05, 2008 Poor Comic Treatment POST A COMMENT Let me say upfront, I'm not into "sociopolitical comic strips" - (got a message, save it, and ..."go cry to Oprah") - that preachy, hit-me-over-the-head-with-a-message - it's just not fun, and rarely funny -- 'least if you're gonna wave a finger at me for all the wrongs in the world, for Gods-sake, at the very least, make me laugh...Bodega Avenue comes close - I smiled a few times, (so, I'll give them a pass for the preachy-undertones in that comic strip). but, I find my sensibilities do align, especially when talking about the "haves" and "have-nots" - if that makes any sense. It's like that motto, kill them with kindness; there's gotta be a "fun" way to make people listen to important issues - like the effects of gentrification in Brooklyn - without sounding like a crybaby...or getting on a soapbox...or, sounding like a liberal asswipe (that hugs...g'aak, trees). How 'bout, kill them with humor? Kill them with entertainment? Like my Momma used to do when she wanted me to take my medicine, she'd wrap it in something I can stomach... There's little doubt, that income for the bottom half of American households are worse than ever...'while income for the top one percent skyrockets - (by 228 percent according to the book, "The Big Squeeze"). The rich get richer, the poor get kicked out...yeah, see what I mean...I'm zoning already (putting my own self to sleep). I got nothing. I'm gonna go out and Make Momma proud, by drowning my sorrows in some happy juice. Source: CBS News, Bodega Avenue Labels: Bodega Avenue, Comic strips online, race relations, rich and poor divide posted by Henry Cruz at 1:18 AM     ARCHIVES October 2005 . November 2005 . December 2005 . August 2007 . September 2007 . October 2007 . November 2007 . December 2007 . March 2008 . April 2008 . May 2008 . June 2008 . July 2008 . August 2008 . September 2008 .