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■ Internet comics review
There's only one place to turn
for clever comics: the Internet
'Red Meat,' 'Toothpaste for Dinner' and David Reese's
'Unstoppable' comics provide hours of online fun
BYRYAN NYBURG
PULSE EDITOR
I long ago became sick and tired of
the funny pages in the local newspa
per. Sure it was fun when I was a kid,
but unfortunately the intellectual level
of the humor failed to grow with my
own development and every time I
open up to the comics page I get the
nagging feeling I’m reading something
written for 5-year-olds.
Of course the Sunday comics page
has never been the place to turn to for
exciting new work; even the most
mildly interesting strips often get ghet
toized to the classifieds page and are
never heard from again. So if you are
looking for interesting strips that push
a few boundaries, don’t insult your in
telligence and are actually (gasp) fun
ny, you’ve got to turn to the Internet.
One of the first stops for any fan of
twisted humor ought to be www.red
rneat.com. Written by Max Cannon,
“Red Meat” is a borderline surrealist
loony bin of absurdity. The a rotating
cast of characters includes a psychot
ic milkman, a bug-eyed freak and a
1950s style dad with some severe
personality issues. Each strip has
such senseless titles as “The Melliflu
ous Milk of Monotony” and “Asphalt
Bellyflop” and often contains little
bits of wisdom such as “No man is
an island... but if you tie a bunch of
dead guys together they make a pret
ty good raft. ”
The site itself contains all the usual
merchandise and is pretty easy to nav
igate. Though finding a specific strip
can be a chore, you can search through
the strips featuring your favorite char
acters. Brilliant stuff every week.
Next up is www.toothpaste
fordinner.com, featuring the one-pan
eled, minimalist comic. “Toothpaste
for Dinner” is a truly brilliant strip.
Done in simple line drawings, chubby
stick figure characters make strange
observations about everyday life at
home, out and about and at the office,
the strip offers a sense of humor that
makes you both shake your head and
laugh in recognition. Recently the
artist, “Drew,” has taken to writing one
strip a day for a whole year. While this
often leads to some hit-or-miss mo
ments, it does mean there is an exten
sive archive of wonderful material
waiting for the casual browser to waste
happy hours on.
Observations include such gems as
“If I had a dollar for every time I had
sixty cents, I would be Canada” and
“Bad Poetry! Oh Noetry! ”
The strips are organized chrono
logically, which makes finding specif
ic strips difficult, though the titles are
at least mildly descriptive. The best
joy comes from just scrolling ran
domly though strips and finding the
hidden treasures.
Finally we have www.mnftiu.ee,
the home of four comics by David
Reese, including “My New Fighting
Technique is Unstoppable,” on karate
and absurd humor, “My New Filing
Technique is Unstoppable,” on office
life, “Get Your War On,” on modern
politics, and nature-oriented “Adven
tures of Confessions of §aint Augus
tine Bear.” Reese’s clip-art-and-pro
fanity-based humor is as strange as it
is funny and insightful. The highlight
is “Get Your War On,” which has
been offering some of the funniest
commentary on modern politics
available. The main problem with the
strips is that they are updated infre
quently and sporadically, which
means when you finish what is there
you have to wait up to two months
for something else to show up. Or
dered chronologically, the strips are
fairly easy to search through, and
once again the fun comes from just
starting at a random spot and scroll
ing through them.
ryannyburg@ dailyemerald, com
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