January 18, 2005

The Family Circus Conspiracy
posted by forksclovetofu 19 years ago
  • heh..some hilarious stuff out there in the wide world of reviews.
  • The best are the clever ones - eg:
    Though the 80-cent list price will doubtlessly be enough to scare off even some of the most enthusiastic connoisseurs of rare Keane monographs, the eight remaining copies of "The Family Circus Treasury" known to exist are true gems of the ancient publishing world. The first-ever comic books to have been produced on the Gutenberg machine, these finely-wrought works of superior craftsmanship have survived the centuries remarkably intact, despite the tragic loss of the ninth (and arguably most complete) copy in the 1993 bombing of the Kabul Museum in Afghanistan where it had been housed since its presentation as a goodwill gesture from Kruschev to Prince Mohammad Daoud in 1959. Guaranteed only to go up in price, these beautiful books will satisfy alike the most cautious investor or the most exacting bibliophile.
  • Disfunctional Family Circus born again? with captions of more recent vintage, and banana humor?
  • Yeah, that was mostly the DFC regulars that wrote the Amazon reviews. It was toward the end of the DFC's run and they were looking for other...uh...avenues. Good times, good times...
  • Don't ask me WHY I've been thinking about this, but I have, and I do have a comment on it.. Although the "reviews" are somewhat humorous, I have to admit that i hate to see this kind of thing happen. If someone wants to create "humor", fine, they are free to do that, and there are appropriate satire sites that would welcome well written pieces. But this comes across more like vandalism. There are a number of online "review" resources that I use on a regular basis. IMDB, epinion, amazon, etc... It would be sad if we lost these resources because they are abused like this. so...I'm doing a thumbs down on this...just internet graffiti, and we've got enough trash out here in the digital world...
  • Normally I'd agree with you. But c'mon... this is The Family Circus, not Moliere, or even Tom Clancy.
  • Reminds me of Scott McCloud's FC panel that read: "Mommy, why ain't I juxtaposed?"
  • Sheesh... after six years I'm amazed no mirror site exists. I'm sure glad I ripped the site to CD back in 1999.
  • (DFC that is)
  • The mom is way hotter since she got that sassy short haircut. Rowr.
  • Speaking of hot cartoon hair, Wilma Flintstone's is utterly transformed by the hair styling product she's shilling for yet cannot technically use. /derail
  • Horselover Fat used to have a floating mirror, roly. Unfortunately, now even that is gone. Still, in my heart, the poop will always keep the tent wher it is...
  • Excellent, PY...I wonder what Velma's transformation looks like...
  • cabingirl, the integrity of Velma's 'do wasn't nearly as compromised (though what were they thinking when they stripped her of her glasses!)- just a bit of a flip at the ends. Unlike, say, Marge Simpson's - which is vaguely reminiscent of early '90s Cindy Crawford. /further derail