OK, another three-panel daily strip (panels 4, 5, and 6) that has been padded with useless filler panels (1, 2, and 3) to make a Sunday strip. This seems lazy and cynical to me. I always thought that the point of the Sunday strip is to use that extra real estate to either explore a character or plot point in more depth, or to set up a more complex punchline.
It’s true that I’m not a comic strip artist, and I don’t know how much work goes into doing a daily comic strip for years on end. Also, I should just appreciate the comic—especially a legacy comic like “Andy Capp” that I’ve loved since the ’70’s—for what it is.
But it’s BECAUSE I love “Andy Capp” that I complain about a drop in quality. If I didn’t care, I would certainly just stop reading it. And, at the end of the day, the gags, stretched out or not, are still classic Capp, so of course I keep tuning in, to read, enjoy, and occasionally complain.
I remember an old Andy Capp strip where he goes for a interview for a bus driver. The boss says “Do you drink, Mr Capp?” Andy replies: “Thanks, lad. Don’t mind if I do but let’s get the questions over with first”
Saw one of my neighbors driving a snowmobile yesterday, believe it or not. It was a bright sunny day, and there they were, driving it down a gravel road. Talk about weird.
Sir Ruddy Blighter almost 7 years ago
OK, another three-panel daily strip (panels 4, 5, and 6) that has been padded with useless filler panels (1, 2, and 3) to make a Sunday strip. This seems lazy and cynical to me. I always thought that the point of the Sunday strip is to use that extra real estate to either explore a character or plot point in more depth, or to set up a more complex punchline.
It’s true that I’m not a comic strip artist, and I don’t know how much work goes into doing a daily comic strip for years on end. Also, I should just appreciate the comic—especially a legacy comic like “Andy Capp” that I’ve loved since the ’70’s—for what it is.
But it’s BECAUSE I love “Andy Capp” that I complain about a drop in quality. If I didn’t care, I would certainly just stop reading it. And, at the end of the day, the gags, stretched out or not, are still classic Capp, so of course I keep tuning in, to read, enjoy, and occasionally complain.
Templo S.U.D. almost 7 years ago
riiiiight… as if prison cells have minibars (as stated in another “Andy Capp” strip a few days ago)
William Pursell almost 7 years ago
For Shame Reg?
Number Three almost 7 years ago
I remember an old Andy Capp strip where he goes for a interview for a bus driver. The boss says “Do you drink, Mr Capp?” Andy replies: “Thanks, lad. Don’t mind if I do but let’s get the questions over with first”
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Number Three almost 7 years ago
I wish people would stop moaning about the extra panels. It’s doing my head in. We’ve just had some more terror attacks in London for (BLEEP) sake!
tad1 almost 7 years ago
Saw one of my neighbors driving a snowmobile yesterday, believe it or not. It was a bright sunny day, and there they were, driving it down a gravel road. Talk about weird.
Sherlock5 7 months ago
This joke is older than Andy.