Does Gertie really think she could lose her job just because she’s late getting back one night? That’s ridiculous. Firing Gertie would be like firing your own mother. Talk about emotional, she needs a break.
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In case you missed it yesterday:
Norman:
In reading through these comments, I see that there are usually more who don’t like this arc than praising it. So I guess that as much as I enjoy it, I’m outnumbered.
That being said, what I said yesterday still goes. No amount of complaining will change the fact that this arc has been completed and submitted to the publisher weeks ago. We’ll just have to wait until the scheduled end of the story.
Comment on the strip, absolutely. Demand an early end to it every day, why bother?
The pic Norm uses appears to be Joe Cobb, one of the first cast members of the original Our Gang comedies, which are ALMOST as old as the Gasoline Alley comic strip.
I agree with most of the people on here….I like this story. Its interesting and a change from the same-o same-o. The others on here seem to forget the other stories on GA. Like for instance Rufus’s cat with the cat food commercial. Now that was looooooong! But I didn’t complain, I just read on each day by day. This story at least has different appeal with a complete different story line. Keep up the good work Jim!
it seems some strips have their die hard commenters ….some strip ‘groupies’ sing the strips praises and some (like Dick Tracy) LOVE to tear it down….I learned, very quickly, you dont mess with the folks at ‘for better or for worse’ they talk about those cartoon characters as if they were real people…..so , dont cross them and DONT try to tell them their characters arent real……
thats fine….Im just saying that when someone ventures onto the comment line and goes against what the consensus is, there is always a string of interesting and sometimes funny comment commenters……
so , quit picking on Norman, when he comments negatively in dick tracy, he is merely one of the crowd….but here, he is producing lots of interest..and comments..you have to admit
the ironic thing is that on the dick tracy comment section, EVERYbody speaks negatively of the strip, some in quite a humorous way, and the one time a guy got on there and defended the strip and its art with passion and even vehemence , he was bombarded with anti comment comments , much like ol’ normy is getting here
just a thot
You’reRobert,
Thanks for the link. It looks like Cobb was a pretty nice guy. So many of the old Our Gang kids lived some pretty unhappy lives.
I wonder what TV, comics or music from today will be looked back upon as fondly as we look on GA and Our Gang. The Simpsons, I guess. Star Trek. Garfield will probably still be around.
NotNorman! You old rascal, you’ve convinced me. I like Gertie and Bird but I’m ready for a change. I’d like to see something nice happen to them and move on to a new story. As long as it doesnt include dishwashers or meteors.
Star Trek, you say? I didn’t like the new movie. It was different from the old one. I kept going back every night to complain about it to everyone sitting around me, telling them they were wrong– WRONG– to enjoy it. I tried to reason with them, you know, by hurling insults and wild accusations and by repeating my point endlessly, but they didn’t have the courtesy to agree with me, and they kept liking it and saying good things about it! Indeed.
Well, I LOVE it like Stuart, but I don’t mind the naysayers having their say. But the ranting is annoying, and the Not Norman person does act like a bully.
The problem with Norman and nighthawks reasoning is that this site is like the stadium and these comics are the home team. If the vast majority of the people in the stadium are cheering for the home team, you’re going to look like a jerk if you’re claiming to be a big fan while jeering the home team at the top of your lungs. If you’re repeating the same jeers over and over again, you’re even more of a childish jerk. Of course, you’re free to look like a jerk if you want, but don’t get all indignant when people call you on it, and don’t even try to suggest that it’s reasonable for the fans who are telling you to nix the jerkiness to stop cheering for their team. That wouldn’t make any sense in the stadium of your favorite team, and it doesn’t make any sense here on the Gasoline Alley page, either.
Besides, that kind of behavior on the internet, especially if you’re doing it to “make things interesting” as nighthawks suggests, qualifies you as a troll. Trolls ruin the experience for everyone but other trolls. If you find yourself enjoying the fact that you are getting a large number of people mad at you and that you are the center of everyone’s attention, I hate to break it to you, but you are a troll. If you wander onto a page where everyone is getting along and enjoying themselves talking about their favorite comic and you can’t resist the urge to ruin it for everyone, you are a troll. Trolls suck.
Gomer564 almost 15 years ago
Bird will fly back to you Gertie don’t cry.
LudwigVonDrake almost 15 years ago
Ok, let’s all learn a life’s lesson from this and move on to the next story.
tcambeul almost 15 years ago
Please put us out of our misery.
axe-grinder almost 15 years ago
That was very irresponsible of Bird. The show must go on.
oldbooger almost 15 years ago
Please, lets move on and return to GA storylines and “the four generations of Wallets” … not the trials and tribulations of Gertie and Earl.
Gordonne almost 15 years ago
you know people, if you don’t like what the cartoonist does, than don’t read it, move on - - way too much whining here
faacks almost 15 years ago
this strip has become a soap opera. please return to humor
maresydotes almost 15 years ago
It isn’t her fault, but it is her problem…
stringmusicianer almost 15 years ago
The things we do for love.
rmax4131 almost 15 years ago
Oldbooger, don’t be such an, um…old booger! I’m diggin’ this storyline, although I am not clear on why Bird had to quit Corky’s.
vasaaaa almost 15 years ago
Amen Gordonne. Why are you guys whining and for that matter how old are some of you guys anyway?
alondra almost 15 years ago
The whole band got fired because of Earl? That’s really crummy. They could’ve played without him for a while.
NotFromIceland almost 15 years ago
I agree with everyone. Please vote for me for Congress.
Durak Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Does Gertie really think she could lose her job just because she’s late getting back one night? That’s ridiculous. Firing Gertie would be like firing your own mother. Talk about emotional, she needs a break. — In case you missed it yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SMJj8tz_w0&feature=channelpage
JanLC almost 15 years ago
Norman: In reading through these comments, I see that there are usually more who don’t like this arc than praising it. So I guess that as much as I enjoy it, I’m outnumbered. That being said, what I said yesterday still goes. No amount of complaining will change the fact that this arc has been completed and submitted to the publisher weeks ago. We’ll just have to wait until the scheduled end of the story. Comment on the strip, absolutely. Demand an early end to it every day, why bother?
imrobert almost 15 years ago
The pic Norm uses appears to be Joe Cobb, one of the first cast members of the original Our Gang comedies, which are ALMOST as old as the Gasoline Alley comic strip.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=joe+cobb&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g3
ORteka almost 15 years ago
I agree with most of the people on here….I like this story. Its interesting and a change from the same-o same-o. The others on here seem to forget the other stories on GA. Like for instance Rufus’s cat with the cat food commercial. Now that was looooooong! But I didn’t complain, I just read on each day by day. This story at least has different appeal with a complete different story line. Keep up the good work Jim!
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 15 years ago
it seems some strips have their die hard commenters ….some strip ‘groupies’ sing the strips praises and some (like Dick Tracy) LOVE to tear it down….I learned, very quickly, you dont mess with the folks at ‘for better or for worse’ they talk about those cartoon characters as if they were real people…..so , dont cross them and DONT try to tell them their characters arent real…… thats fine….Im just saying that when someone ventures onto the comment line and goes against what the consensus is, there is always a string of interesting and sometimes funny comment commenters…… so , quit picking on Norman, when he comments negatively in dick tracy, he is merely one of the crowd….but here, he is producing lots of interest..and comments..you have to admit the ironic thing is that on the dick tracy comment section, EVERYbody speaks negatively of the strip, some in quite a humorous way, and the one time a guy got on there and defended the strip and its art with passion and even vehemence , he was bombarded with anti comment comments , much like ol’ normy is getting here just a thot
stringmusicianer almost 15 years ago
Personally, I prefer interesting comments. You have to sift through a lot of boring repetition here to get to them.
stuart almost 15 years ago
I LOVE this story.
Max Starman Jones almost 15 years ago
Bird’s a big boy. He doesn’t need a nursemaid to hold his hand. He needs to get a grip. He’s supposed to be grown up.
Either return to the Wallets or get rid of the picture of Walt that headlines this comic.
Durak Premium Member almost 15 years ago
You’reRobert, Thanks for the link. It looks like Cobb was a pretty nice guy. So many of the old Our Gang kids lived some pretty unhappy lives.
I wonder what TV, comics or music from today will be looked back upon as fondly as we look on GA and Our Gang. The Simpsons, I guess. Star Trek. Garfield will probably still be around.
NotNorman! You old rascal, you’ve convinced me. I like Gertie and Bird but I’m ready for a change. I’d like to see something nice happen to them and move on to a new story. As long as it doesnt include dishwashers or meteors.
axe-grinder almost 15 years ago
Star Trek, you say? I didn’t like the new movie. It was different from the old one. I kept going back every night to complain about it to everyone sitting around me, telling them they were wrong– WRONG– to enjoy it. I tried to reason with them, you know, by hurling insults and wild accusations and by repeating my point endlessly, but they didn’t have the courtesy to agree with me, and they kept liking it and saying good things about it! Indeed.
maresydotes almost 15 years ago
Well, I LOVE it like Stuart, but I don’t mind the naysayers having their say. But the ranting is annoying, and the Not Norman person does act like a bully.
alondra almost 15 years ago
ORteka said:
Like for instance Rufus’s cat with the cat food commercial.
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I edited this for only the one part that got my interest. A long storyline about a cat and cat food commercial? I’m sorry I missed that!
Handrew almost 15 years ago
The problem with Norman and nighthawks reasoning is that this site is like the stadium and these comics are the home team. If the vast majority of the people in the stadium are cheering for the home team, you’re going to look like a jerk if you’re claiming to be a big fan while jeering the home team at the top of your lungs. If you’re repeating the same jeers over and over again, you’re even more of a childish jerk. Of course, you’re free to look like a jerk if you want, but don’t get all indignant when people call you on it, and don’t even try to suggest that it’s reasonable for the fans who are telling you to nix the jerkiness to stop cheering for their team. That wouldn’t make any sense in the stadium of your favorite team, and it doesn’t make any sense here on the Gasoline Alley page, either.
Besides, that kind of behavior on the internet, especially if you’re doing it to “make things interesting” as nighthawks suggests, qualifies you as a troll. Trolls ruin the experience for everyone but other trolls. If you find yourself enjoying the fact that you are getting a large number of people mad at you and that you are the center of everyone’s attention, I hate to break it to you, but you are a troll. If you wander onto a page where everyone is getting along and enjoying themselves talking about their favorite comic and you can’t resist the urge to ruin it for everyone, you are a troll. Trolls suck.