{"id":14568,"date":"2010-05-20T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14568"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:20","slug":"hines-stephen-clyde-the-redneck-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14568","title":{"rendered":"Hines, Stephen – Clyde the Redneck #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clyde the Redneck #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a comic strip in The Other Paper (based in Columbus Ohio), the name of which escapes me because I never bothered to read the ugly thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Full disclosure here: it’s an uphill battle to get me to read newspaper comic strips, even though I have managed to find a few over the years that are pretty funny.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, I could never be bothered with that particular strip because it was a clip-art thing: they would use the same panel for the whole strip, fill in the word balloons and (one assumes) wrap it up with a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 That one, at the very least, had the decency to change the image every week.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of four panel strips, all told with clip-art, all using that profoundly ugly image from the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 Stephen starts off thanking a bunch of conservative luminaries, but a quick glance at his website shows that he’s not really a fan of those nutbags.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, so the comic looks terrible.\u00c2\u00a0 What about the writing?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s OK.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the same format for the whole thing of course: first panel with only a title, next two set up some sort of a punchline, and then the punchline is delivered.\u00c2\u00a0 Topics include being followed too closely, waiting for McCain to get elected, seeing a lot of stickers on a car, falling in love with a country singer on the radio, yelling at an Obama bumper sticker, and how high schools dress slutty.\u00c2\u00a0 As humor is subjective, I will only say that I thought it was significantly more stupid than funny.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like he has other, better (?) books available, so here’s hoping that I picked up one of those comics in my mad dash through SPACE, as I’d hate to think this lazy mess is the best this guy has to offer.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n

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