Filling Voids

For Christmas, my nephew gave me the Weapon Brown comics. Weapon Brown is a satire pitting Peanuts characters against themselves & other comic strip characters in a dark, bleak post apocalyptic world. Picture Dilbert's boss garroting Mr Dithers, Peppermint Patty running a brothel & Charlie Brown, doomed to failure as a bitter cyborg bounty hunter.....
I don't read comics much anymore. Gave up on newspaper strips long long ago. When I moved from Springfield the Cincinnati papers didn't carry the strips I had followed my whole life & it was just too late to get into Rex Morgan & that hag, Mary Worth when I craved Dick Tracy & Bringing Up Father.
When I was a fully functioning human being with massive disposable income I was an avid comic book fan. Comic books are soap operas usually told on a monthly basis. Comic books are released on a weekly basis. I usually bought 10 - 15 comics a week. This meant that I had, at any given time, 40 - 50 long term plot lines banging around my head. When finding comics and poring over them got too difficult, I gave up.
I watch a bit of serialized TV. Supernatural is about the only current soap opera type series I watch. After that, I get series on DVD from mail order subscription service (Schlockbluster).
There's not as many storylines to be had & corporate TV, created by committees and accountants don't come near the creativity of the more monarchial comic book creators.
There are real live cartoon characters with their own ongoing soap operas to follow like Tom Luken, Chris Smitherman, Michelle Bachman, Alex Jones & Barry O. It's kind of scary that they are in real life and that some people actually consider them inspiring but people followed the Star Wars "force" and, if mainstream America saw the dedication of some of the fans of Grendel, they would be very very afraid.
So, thanks, Ted, for making me all depressed & nostalgic on a cold dreary winter day...
LOL