What OET lacks in actual humour, it manages to be charming by showing us that the more things change, the more they stay the same - and that “products of their time” could still have a fairly modern moral compass.
Yeah, a lot of newspaper-printed comics haven’t always gone for a big punchline, especially the much older ones like this. Sometimes it’s just charm or a more episodic “I wonder what [familiar character] is getting up to today!”
I’d say even a more modern one like Calvin and Hobbes would fall into a similar category.
Absolutely true. They really are more slow emotion based “day in the life” when printed in a newspaper. I mean I imagine they would have to be just for how many you make when doing them.
Pearls before swine, Zits, Mutts, Baby Blues, Lockhorns, etc and so on. Really rely on simple stories sometimes without much of a punch line. Even Hagar was mostly about how vikings could still have dream homestead blues and dysfunctional marriage as a punchline.
I think the best long running comics connect to that sense of empathy and familiarity.
You know that Onion article, “No Way to Prevent This says only nation where this regularly happens” that was getting posted like 3 times a year, for a decade, and now it seems like we’re at the point where even The Onion won’t bother posting it any more?
The comic was posted a CENTURY AGO. Good work america. Literally sticking to your guns.
Ah. Pre-NRA America
Just let their parents buy it and let the kid have unsupervised access.
Are these old, or new and drawn to look old?
Whats old is new again, because AMERICA NEVER FIXES ITS SHIT!!!
It’s the same reason I don’t get these people saying “I’d love to see what George Carlin would have said about the last 15 years…”
You already HEARD what he would say. The names and the faces may have changed, but the situations haven’t. The only “new” thing in that time was covid, which if he had made it to 2020, would have been the thing to kill him.
He might have done a zoom stand-up routine how he loves doing stand-up from his living room, so he doesn’t have to deal with travel, and dealing with people all day. Then he’d make a joke about how after his set is done he’s going to play with his dick and balls, and retorically ask the audience if they want him to leave his webcam on for it.
But outside of that we haven’t changed one bit.