Henry Payne | August 29, 2008

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Holy shit, Batman! To call this tripe would be an insult to animal guts everywhere. I seriously need to make an in-course correction to my 2008 resolutions: No more guilty pleasure of clicking on this effluvia every Friday just so I can complain about it.
Um, maybe you guys didn't see the sign. They called him "Joe Blowhard"! The only way to up the hilarity of that would be to throw in the phrase "foot-in-mouth disease" and let the wackiness ensue!
I honestly feel bad for anyone who submits a Friday Funny. The
Romans were nicer to Christians. My suggestion is to open it
up:
http://www.stripcreator.com/
We need an equivalent to the Garfield Randomizer, or Garfield without Garfield, for Friday Funnies.
No, Warty, just some Lovecraftian Family Circus. Or Bloom County. Because they're exactly alike!
I honestly feel bad for anyone who submits a Friday
Funny.
I also feel bad for them, because they spent time designing that
dreck.
Damn, for a moment I read "In the last edition of Friday Funnies..." and I cheered a little bit inside.
He might actually get paid a little for doing these. So, the joke's on us really...we waste our time on them for free.
My mother taught me that if you can't say something nice, don't
say anything at all.
Henry Payne, like many a 6 year old, draws better than me.
Listening to you.
In the cool
celerity of a
diffident young
bird I try
to forget a dying
behaviour, the
sound of a picture
and a luminous
care, easily,
like an earnest
desire.
Francesco Sinibaldi
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