Today in Inappropriate Comics

[steuard]

This week, the comic strip "Zits" (about a teenager named Jeremy, often featuring his girlfriend Sara and their hormone-fueled relationship) is parodying the comic strip "Love Is..." (saccharine sweet platitudes about love featuring a romantic couple drawn to look like naked eight year olds; it's not usually as creepy as it sounds). I completely approve in principle, since "Love Is..." absolutely deserves to be parodied.

But, oh my word. The creators are drawing Jeremy and Sara to look like naked eight year olds, which already feels really uncomfortable in the context of their usual barely-concealed lust. But they've outdone themselves: today's installment is mind-bogglingly inappropriate for a family newspaper.

Comments

[madmanatw.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I agree that Love Is... deserves to be parodied- in fact, doing so was one of the popular pasttimes in my high school social group. (Hell, we made T-Shirts that say "Love Is... Understanding and Enjoying Adolescence" with a picture of a dark room with two sets of eyes in it. (Understanding and Enjoying Adolescence was the name of our "Human Behavior/Sex Ed" class book.))

Anyway, it's not just that this Zits is inappropriate for the newspapers... it's also not remotely funny. Which unfortunately is almost always the case in Zits (and similarly Get Fuzzy, and perhaps this can be generalized) when they decide to do a week of one panel gags that are all the same gag. See also the 2 week vacation they took a few years ago where every day was Walt and Connie enjoying beautiful scenery while Jeremy played video games on a handheld. Every day. For 2 weeks.

(Reading backwards to this past Sunday's... wait, is the van actually running now? Wow, I'm behind.)