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   jml58 said, 6 months ago

   If he had forgotten the heart it would have been a lawyer.

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   wiitennessee said, 6 months ago

   Why do I get the feeling Wiley Miller doesn’t like comic sites?

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   Richard said, 6 months ago

   If he’d-a been a lawyaw, he would’a been numbah one in the numbah two business.

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   Dracip said, 6 months ago

   More Flo and Capt. Eddie!!!!!

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   Nairebis said, 6 months ago

   Apparently Wiley has never heard of advertising, though he seems to be on-board the modern idea of spending money that you don’t have.

   If he wanted this comic to really be biting, then he would have had the brainless monster trying to sell “news” that lectures people on what they’re supposed to think, and everyone being shocked when it isn’t selling like it used to in an age when people have more choices than ever.

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   the GhostPony said, 6 months ago

   Wiley: I’d buy the paper but no single one prints the comics I like to read, so I go online. I’d buy the paper but our local rag is skewed so far to the right it can no longer be taken seriously (10 conservative columnists to 1 liberal). Don’t get me wrong, I was raised in the era of newspapers (Cleveland Press, Plain Dealer) and I miss them but they long ago ceased to be reliable sources of unbiased information. Their corporate owners bow to shareholders whims and advertisers wishes. It’s easier to just go online (and I don’t mind ads, I know my economics). I’m certainly not against paying for content either, but it better be quality work. I’m not going to pay good money for Drudge or Huffpost type of “news”.

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   Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago

   Wiley - I read this comic here and in The Denver Post.
   Depends which one I get to first.
   Big advantage here is being able to give feedback to, and even receive feedback from, the creator (you).
   Thanks for that.

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   Ron said, 6 months ago

   Me too.

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   Wildmustang1262 said, 6 months ago

   Eh! CEO Frankenstein with brainless!

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    pookid54 said, 6 months ago

    AMEN WILEY!!!!!

    Same can be said for TV entertainews!

    Come here to the dark side with us…..we have French Toast!

    And special thank you for yesterday’s “Pastis Fazul”

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    Carmy said, 6 months ago

    I think it means that the newspapers (or brainless edtiors) shot themselves in the foot and just realized it.

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    seablood said, 6 months ago

    I have a choice to read our newspaper(already paid for) or use the net. Being visually impaired, the net is easier to read.

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    Josh 1360 said, 6 months ago

    For I wish CNN Headline News (Not HLN) would go back to being that, a 24/7 all-news channel, not a 24/7 News and rag-chew channel!

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    Roto13 said, 6 months ago

    Hey, look, this comic is trying to pretend that newspapers are only becoming obsolete because they’re mishandled, not because the internet is more practical and superior in almost every way. Again.

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    ggwwtt said, 6 months ago

    Ya know that comic can explain a lot of aspects of a lot of problems in several industries… e.g “I know, let’s write $500,000 mortgages to first time buyers without verifying income” Or, “We can sell more cars if we finance them interest free for 6 years” So the artist picked his favorite pet peeve, that’s his prerogative.

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    ReFlex-76 said, 6 months ago

    Here’s an interesting take on it:

    http://forums.leasticoulddo.com/index.php?showtopic=29036

    “I find myself recently spending a great deal of thought on the issue of the demise of the newspaper, and everything relating to it.

    Everyday, it seems, we are assaulted with business headlines of another newspaper shutting down, massive job cuts and features disappearing by the handful. Is this the way to save a newspaper? Probably not, but then, that’s not what I’ve been concerning myself with. The main questions I’ve been posing are: Can the newspaper be saved? Or more importantly, should it be?

    A newspaper is a medium, in which to share information. When any other medium in history has reached the end of it’s usefulness, it’s been allowed to gracefully retire, to make way for the next step in evolution.

    I don’t use carrier pigeons to get in touch with my wife during the day, I use my cell phone. I don’t use my VHS player to watch Band of Brothers, I power on my Samsung Blu-Ray player. Rarely is the day when I use a horse and buggy to get to work, I tend to rely on my automobile.

    I don’t pick up a newspaper to get the news, I check multiple sources online, to read about them when they happen, as they happen, not 16 hours later in a newspaper which offers me limited information without the immediate ability to get more.

    Are we trying to save the newspaper because our generation still uses it, or because the older generation is nostalgic and refuses to embrace change?

    Why would I pay 20$ a month for a subscription to my local paper, when only 5% of it is original content? With the other 95% percent of is syndicated content I can much more easily access online at the Associated Press site? The newspaper model works off of advertising. Big news, so does the web.

    I believe local coverage is important, but I believe the current medium in which we get said coverage is done. I want to know what’s happening in Montreal. I want to read material from well educated journalists (not bloggers). Why can’t I do that online?

    You want to talk about going green? Why not eliminate the printed newspaper as it is and move it online? Grab a calculator and tell me how many trees that would save?

    What the future will bring, I’m not sure, but change isn’t just coming anymore, it’s here.

    The medium has evolved.”

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    ReFlex-76 said, 6 months ago

    That guy also has a comic; he did a storyline on this that started here:

    http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090420

    … and ended here:

    http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090509

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    Bany39 said, 6 months ago

    I have to read this comic on line since our paper chose to drop it last fall. Actually it is to sophisticated for the local reader and paper editors.

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    pookid54 said, 6 months ago

    AND BACON!!!! WILEY, WE* *HAVE BACON!!!!!!

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    CandO2666 said, 6 months ago

    I get my local paper everyday, but I read Non Sequitur here because the paper only runs it on Saturdays! That only works with one-off strips, not the storylines that feature the continuing characters. Bizarre. They used to run it everyday, but dropped it in a comics page reorganization a few years ago. Fortunately, (sarcasm alert), we still can read the daily adventures of Spider-man.

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    Roto13 said, 6 months ago

    I’d actually like to be able to read Spider-Man online. I can’t find it anywhere. :P

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    sskelton said, 6 months ago

    Wiley, This is great!!! I want a signed original!!

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    obxgolfer said, 5 months ago

    Wiley, I’m a journo for a top-20 circulation newspaper. Read this in my Sunday paper. Right on. Paper’s need get an antitrust exemption like the Failing Newspaper Act of 1970 so they can collectively establish a fair-market price and erect pay walls that will allow them to charge for content and pay their employees and syndicated contributors.

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    orgchemist said, 5 months ago

    Love the old Mainiac philosopher. Having gone to school at UMO I find quite Yankee. I would like to see another series of several devoted to a topic about the lobster one done in the recent past

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    lindz.coop said, 5 months ago

    I warned the Detroit Free Press that when they took out my favorite comics, they could say goodbye and I’m stickin to it.