Spider-Man comic strip
Dec. 4th, 2008 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcUntil fairly recently, the Sunday Mail (not to be confused with the Mail on Sunday) ran The Amazing Spider-Man in its comics section. We don't get the Mail, but I used to read it whenever we visited my Gran on a Sunday. And I was disappointed, because it seemed like I was always missing out on the strips where something actually happened.
Today, I followed a link from TV Tropes to a blog that sarcastically reviews newspaper comic strips. And I learnt something interesting.
Nothing interesting has ever happened in the Spidey newspaper strip. It's just the equivilent of the first few pages of a new comic book story, with him worrying about money and his secret identity, and subplots about J. Jonah Jameson.
I feel a strange combination of relief that I hadn't really missed anything, and irritation that I'd bothered trying to follow it all that time.
(Now the main feature of the comics section is Hot-Shot Hamish. Less happens in a Hamish strip than happened in the Spidey ones, but at least you never get the feeling anything should be happening. It's amazing that a strip about a thick Hebridean Roy of the Rovers who doesn't know what a car is, and takes his sheep everywhere [really!] should be reprinted in a Scottish paper, but the Glasgow-based Mail probably has a similar view of the Islands to the London comics the strip first appeared in.)
Today, I followed a link from TV Tropes to a blog that sarcastically reviews newspaper comic strips. And I learnt something interesting.
Nothing interesting has ever happened in the Spidey newspaper strip. It's just the equivilent of the first few pages of a new comic book story, with him worrying about money and his secret identity, and subplots about J. Jonah Jameson.
I feel a strange combination of relief that I hadn't really missed anything, and irritation that I'd bothered trying to follow it all that time.
(Now the main feature of the comics section is Hot-Shot Hamish. Less happens in a Hamish strip than happened in the Spidey ones, but at least you never get the feeling anything should be happening. It's amazing that a strip about a thick Hebridean Roy of the Rovers who doesn't know what a car is, and takes his sheep everywhere [really!] should be reprinted in a Scottish paper, but the Glasgow-based Mail probably has a similar view of the Islands to the London comics the strip first appeared in.)
