Comments on: And now…Mary Worth! http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: The Dane http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/#comment-80341 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:09:07 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/#comment-80341 Faint praise indeed. It impresses because it continues to trudge along, an unstoppable juggernaut of boring, defying all reason and good sense in its mission to have Mary <i>slowly</i> but herself into the lives of people she would have better left alone. For an always amusing take on America's evidently not-favourite busybody, I always enjoy the work of <a href="http://joshreads.com/?cat=8" rel="nofollow">the Comics Curmudgeon</a>. Faint praise indeed. It impresses because it continues to trudge along, an unstoppable juggernaut of boring, defying all reason and good sense in its mission to have Mary slowly but herself into the lives of people she would have better left alone.

For an always amusing take on America’s evidently not-favourite busybody, I always enjoy the work of the Comics Curmudgeon.

]]> by: David Bishop http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/#comment-80332 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:36:23 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/#comment-80332 You did say homey, didn't you? It's just the font The Beat uses can't sometimes be misread... You did say homey, didn’t you? It’s just the font The Beat uses can’t sometimes be misread…

]]> by: Torsten Adair http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/#comment-80283 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:56 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/07/and-nowmary-worth/#comment-80283 It continues because it is a serial strip, and because its readers are a vocal and valuable demographic. I also suspect that it is probably cheaper than other strips. It never hooked me, although I was a frequent reader of Winnie Winkle, Gil Thorp, Dick Tracy, and even, SHUDDER, Dondi. It continues because it is a serial strip, and because its readers are a vocal and valuable demographic. I also suspect that it is probably cheaper than other strips.
It never hooked me, although I was a frequent reader of Winnie Winkle, Gil Thorp, Dick Tracy, and even, SHUDDER, Dondi.

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