I think it’s beautiful. I believe it’s the original author’s son who kind of inherited the brand and still collects a paycheck so now he’s gone really abstract and avant-garde with these theme weeks and weird anti-joke panels.
It’s a symbol of how broken print media is that once you have a position there are no quality checks, no competition, or consequences.
These comics aren’t avant-garde they’re just meaningless, he’s not pushing any envelope or frontier it’s just lazy unfunny junk because that’s what all the cartoons have become.
I usually end up getting them from a particular Facebook group where they’re published shortly after 4:00 p.m. The day before. There’s also a secret website where all comics are published the day before and that’s where the Facebook group pulls it from.
I really don’t get this ‘humour’. What is happening? It’s not even funny because it’s absurd, ‘cos it’s never absurd enough. It’s like the comic equivalent of looking at a Facebook Minions meme.
I think that’s part of the point. It’s someone’s job to make the original comic.
Removing the titular protagonist should ruin a work. Removing them here does absolutely nothing. It makes no more or less sense, despite losing a core component. One would hope a comic in widespread syndication would fare better.
At least with memes when they’re inevitably bad, it’s probably someone fucking around, not a paid professional.
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