Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 22, 2010
June 21, 2010
June 23, 2010
Transcript:
Baldo: School just ended and I already miss it. Cruz: Are you nuts?! You miss school? Baldo: No... Baldo: I miss feeling happy that school was about to end.
What grade did Baldo attend the High School this year? Freshman, Sophmore, Junior or Senior? Then why did he miss the High School for? He will have to go working in full time thru the summertime, eh!
I think comic strip HS students tend to be perpetual Sophomores or Juniors. The Freshman experience is too different when the school year begins, and the Senior experience is too different at the end. Occasionally you see a central character change schools or graduate (eg. in “Luann”, we saw Luann enter High School and we saw Brad graduate), but you can only do it once. You can move characters forward as slowly as you like, but you can’t move ‘em back again. In “Zits”, once Jeremy got his driver’s license, that closed the door on any more Drivers’ Ed jokes…
Joe, Baldo’s not missing high school. He’s missing the joy of it ending. for the summer. It’s like the joke of the man hitting his thumb with a hammer because it feels so good when it stops.
Joe, why do people like you give “sensible advice” to characters in cartoons and comic strips on GoComics? It gives the impression that you see comic strips as opportunities for “moral improvement” rather than occasions for a laugh.
Actually, there aren’t many “people like you” who do that. It’s mostly just you.
Of course, you haven’t answered my question, Joe. Why do you feel it’s necessary to advise comic strip characters how they SHOULD respond in situations, in ways which would not be in the least funny, rather than let them behave in ways which are funny which the cartoonists have set up?
The comments which I share with other people nonetheless ADD TO the humorous content of the strips, rather than detract from it. If we trade inside jokes for which you have no frame of reference, let them slide. The jokes are there for those who understand them.
Your comments DETRACT from the humorous value of the original material. They are a humor vacuum, sucking out whatever enjoyment anyone else may get from the strips.
You use these comments strings as opportunities to demonstrate why YOU, Joe-Allen Doty, are a “virtuous person” with special knowledge of how people (whether in comics or in real life) SHOULD behave, as if comics were intended to be illustrative of how people should behave rather than how people OFTEN behave in ways which are FUNNY.
We KNOW that Baldo is occasionally lazy, callow, or disrespectful. We don’t need you to point it out. If he were not occasionally lazy, callow, or disrespectful, it would not be FUNNY and there would be no reason for Carlos and Hector to build a strip around him.
If I am “judgmental” towards you, it is because I perceive you as being “judgmental” towards anything which does not conform to your narrow, provincial, self-righteous view of the world. It is merely repayment in your own coin.
At this point, you know PRECISELY what sorts of comments coming from you are going to raise objection. You know PRECISELY why we mock you. Yet you continue to post those comments, so I must presume that you do so in full expectation that you will be mocked.
Again, I ask you directly: What do you feel is to be gained by instructing comic strip characters in “correct” behavior?
Is it that you fear other readers will be so moronic as to take their actions and attitudes as examples of proper behavior, do you think they aren’t aware that this is COMIC FICTION? Or is it that you wish to establish your credentials as a “virtuous” man, showing how YOU disapprove of their actions? Or do you feel that by instructing cartoonists in how their characters SHOULD behave you’re “fighting the good fight” against the breakdown of contemporary standards? I figure it must be one of the three, or a combination of them all. Whatever is the case, your services are not required. In the first place, moralizing is contrary to the intent of this site to provide entertainment. In the second place, as often as not your pronouncements are full of crap. But I suspect you get off on persecution. Not as many opportunities for glorious martyrdom as there were in 300 AD, eh, Joe? Humility is a virtue. You should try it sometime.
I don’t expect an answer, of course. Your usual habit is simply to ignore direct questions, although if you yourself address a direct question to another poster and receive no answer you drag it out months afterwards to show how others “dodge” your probity.
You’re a pious hypocrite, Joe. You should try pulling this garbage down in the Editorial sections, where people actually CARE if you don’t know what you’re talking about. They’d rip you to shreds. There, if you want to make an A$$ of yourself, you’ve at least got to have a thick skin.
Wildmustang1262 almost 14 years ago
What grade did Baldo attend the High School this year? Freshman, Sophmore, Junior or Senior? Then why did he miss the High School for? He will have to go working in full time thru the summertime, eh!
Gigantor almost 14 years ago
He’s not happy because summers are boring. The anticipation is the best part.
Potrzebie almost 14 years ago
PErhaps he can have Gracie figure out which chemical causes the reaction and they can market it.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I think comic strip HS students tend to be perpetual Sophomores or Juniors. The Freshman experience is too different when the school year begins, and the Senior experience is too different at the end. Occasionally you see a central character change schools or graduate (eg. in “Luann”, we saw Luann enter High School and we saw Brad graduate), but you can only do it once. You can move characters forward as slowly as you like, but you can’t move ‘em back again. In “Zits”, once Jeremy got his driver’s license, that closed the door on any more Drivers’ Ed jokes…
Coyoty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Joe, Baldo’s not missing high school. He’s missing the joy of it ending. for the summer. It’s like the joke of the man hitting his thumb with a hammer because it feels so good when it stops.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Joe, why do people like you give “sensible advice” to characters in cartoons and comic strips on GoComics? It gives the impression that you see comic strips as opportunities for “moral improvement” rather than occasions for a laugh.
Actually, there aren’t many “people like you” who do that. It’s mostly just you.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Of course, you haven’t answered my question, Joe. Why do you feel it’s necessary to advise comic strip characters how they SHOULD respond in situations, in ways which would not be in the least funny, rather than let them behave in ways which are funny which the cartoonists have set up?
The comments which I share with other people nonetheless ADD TO the humorous content of the strips, rather than detract from it. If we trade inside jokes for which you have no frame of reference, let them slide. The jokes are there for those who understand them.
Your comments DETRACT from the humorous value of the original material. They are a humor vacuum, sucking out whatever enjoyment anyone else may get from the strips.
You use these comments strings as opportunities to demonstrate why YOU, Joe-Allen Doty, are a “virtuous person” with special knowledge of how people (whether in comics or in real life) SHOULD behave, as if comics were intended to be illustrative of how people should behave rather than how people OFTEN behave in ways which are FUNNY.
We KNOW that Baldo is occasionally lazy, callow, or disrespectful. We don’t need you to point it out. If he were not occasionally lazy, callow, or disrespectful, it would not be FUNNY and there would be no reason for Carlos and Hector to build a strip around him.
If I am “judgmental” towards you, it is because I perceive you as being “judgmental” towards anything which does not conform to your narrow, provincial, self-righteous view of the world. It is merely repayment in your own coin.
At this point, you know PRECISELY what sorts of comments coming from you are going to raise objection. You know PRECISELY why we mock you. Yet you continue to post those comments, so I must presume that you do so in full expectation that you will be mocked.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Again, I ask you directly: What do you feel is to be gained by instructing comic strip characters in “correct” behavior?
Is it that you fear other readers will be so moronic as to take their actions and attitudes as examples of proper behavior, do you think they aren’t aware that this is COMIC FICTION? Or is it that you wish to establish your credentials as a “virtuous” man, showing how YOU disapprove of their actions? Or do you feel that by instructing cartoonists in how their characters SHOULD behave you’re “fighting the good fight” against the breakdown of contemporary standards? I figure it must be one of the three, or a combination of them all. Whatever is the case, your services are not required. In the first place, moralizing is contrary to the intent of this site to provide entertainment. In the second place, as often as not your pronouncements are full of crap. But I suspect you get off on persecution. Not as many opportunities for glorious martyrdom as there were in 300 AD, eh, Joe? Humility is a virtue. You should try it sometime.
I don’t expect an answer, of course. Your usual habit is simply to ignore direct questions, although if you yourself address a direct question to another poster and receive no answer you drag it out months afterwards to show how others “dodge” your probity.
You’re a pious hypocrite, Joe. You should try pulling this garbage down in the Editorial sections, where people actually CARE if you don’t know what you’re talking about. They’d rip you to shreds. There, if you want to make an A$$ of yourself, you’ve at least got to have a thick skin.
guillegr123 almost 14 years ago
Asi me siento yo cuando voy a la mitad de mis vacaciones…