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The Far Side is coming back?
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I mean this seems cool but I'm also afraid of Larson being the stereotypical boomer and the new comics being all about SOME GIZMO and MILLENIALS so I think I'd be happier just leaving The Far Side as it is
Five possibilities exist. In order of most to least positive.
1.) New strips, and Gary's still got the magic.
2.) No new strips, just an online archive of existing content. Still great news, and by far the most likely scenario.
3.) New strips, but the magic is gone. It's not offensive or anything, it's just not good any more, and that makes us sad.
4.) New strips, but Gary sucks as a person now and the comics are full of ignorant horseshit.
5.) Gary has lost his damn mind and needs a platform to shill for his private cryptocurrency, which funds the shadow war against feminists and/or lizard people.
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If it is just a web archive of the original comics that is under Larson's control, cool. If not, it would be par for the course to find another pillar of my youth to be problematic.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Yeah. He's actively fought against his strips being online up until now, so I'm guessing it's option 2.
Which will be nice for me, since whenever I get a bad fever I have no recourse but to drink tea and read Far Side comics. This will be much easier than hefting the giant collected editions onto my lap.
I still do not understand some of the Far Side cartoons
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
my favorite is actually Cow Tools simply because I, as a child, immediately understood everything there was to understand about that comic, but apparently every adult who saw it was just utterly befuddled
TFS was way ahead of its time; it hits that sweet spot of bewildered humor about the current society which is the mark of most of the best contemporary memes. The one panel format is also ideal for such as mobile devices
tbh it’s bizarre it’s taken this long
So, hopefully Larson doesn’t turn out to be old and awful
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
gary Larson and bill watterson are some of the only rich people I have any respect for because they made their paper and fucked off to do hobbies and leave the rest of us the fuck alone
I may be remembering wrong, but Larson gave a relatively recent interview saying that he just stares at the walls some days thinking about how badly we've fucked up the planet.
So hopefully he hasn't lost it in the way everyone is dreading.
I may be remembering wrong, but Larson gave a relatively recent interview saying that he just stares at the walls some days thinking about how badly we've fucked up the planet.
So hopefully he hasn't lost it in the way everyone is dreading.
gary Larson and bill watterson are some of the only rich people I have any respect for because they made their paper and fucked off to do hobbies and leave the rest of us the fuck alone
Watterson in particular; I can't find the interview but one the main reasons he ended C&H was he was getting a lot of merchandising pressure from his publishers and he wanted no part of it. Mad respect for preserving the integrity and vision of your work in the face of an almost unfathomable amount of money.
I may be remembering wrong, but Larson gave a relatively recent interview saying that he just stares at the walls some days thinking about how badly we've fucked up the planet.
So hopefully he hasn't lost it in the way everyone is dreading.
Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
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the crazy thing about the C&H licensing fight is that like...watterson shouldn't have been able to win it
his publisher, I'm pretty sure, could have just said "we have the right to make whatever merch we want regardless of your preferences, and you're contractually obliged to keep making the comics, end of discussion"
if that understanding is correct, it says a lot about how stubborn Watterson was
I may be remembering wrong, but Larson gave a relatively recent interview saying that he just stares at the walls some days thinking about how badly we've fucked up the planet.
So hopefully he hasn't lost it in the way everyone is dreading.
Yes but did he state HOW we've fucked it up?
Environmentally.
He specifically said how creeped out he is by the rate at which we push species to extinction.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
the crazy thing about the C&H licensing fight is that like...watterson shouldn't have been able to win it
his publisher, I'm pretty sure, could have just said "we have the right to make whatever merch we want regardless of your preferences, and you're contractually obliged to keep making the comics, end of discussion"
if that understanding is correct, it says a lot about how stubborn Watterson was
I believe he had a unique contract
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
gary Larson and bill watterson are some of the only rich people I have any respect for because they made their paper and fucked off to do hobbies and leave the rest of us the fuck alone
I feel like if C&H was running today that a bunch of shitty redpill/incel/gamergate/take your pick types would idolize Calvin as a role model of whatever toxic bullshit you wanna name while Watterson would be screaming about how he's just a jerkass kid.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
yes many people would fail to understand that Calvin is both very smart and nearly always wrong
I still do not understand some of the Far Side cartoons
And others I understand, I just don't get why they're supposed to be funny. Maybe I'm just dumb?
Many are just pure absurdity; like the cow tools one (per Larson) has no deep meaning, he just thought the idea of a cow having some weird tool-objects was amusing so he drew it
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Also yeah, watterson only ever signed over the publication rights; that and the popularity of the strip gave him enormous leverage to do basically whatever he wanted. C&H was one of the only strips to retain a larger Sunday format because if watterson couldn’t draw them that way he refused to draw them at all (this pissed off a bunch of his less-acclaimed contemporaries). He also refused any merchandising right from the beginning, and the publisher just had to deal with it.
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
my childhood dentist had a bunch far side collections in his waiting room and it was very helpful in distracting me from the fact that I was visiting the dentist.
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alright, I guess
I feel TFS has enough of a unique tone that it would be worth passing onto a new creator to run with
1.) New strips, and Gary's still got the magic.
2.) No new strips, just an online archive of existing content. Still great news, and by far the most likely scenario.
3.) New strips, but the magic is gone. It's not offensive or anything, it's just not good any more, and that makes us sad.
4.) New strips, but Gary sucks as a person now and the comics are full of ignorant horseshit.
5.) Gary has lost his damn mind and needs a platform to shill for his private cryptocurrency, which funds the shadow war against feminists and/or lizard people.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
Which will be nice for me, since whenever I get a bad fever I have no recourse but to drink tea and read Far Side comics. This will be much easier than hefting the giant collected editions onto my lap.
Anatidaephobia is right there
They found Wayne.
tbh it’s bizarre it’s taken this long
So, hopefully Larson doesn’t turn out to be old and awful
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
So hopefully he hasn't lost it in the way everyone is dreading.
And others I understand, I just don't get why they're supposed to be funny. Maybe I'm just dumb?
Aw dang that's grim
Watterson in particular; I can't find the interview but one the main reasons he ended C&H was he was getting a lot of merchandising pressure from his publishers and he wanted no part of it. Mad respect for preserving the integrity and vision of your work in the face of an almost unfathomable amount of money.
Yes but did he state HOW we've fucked it up?
his publisher, I'm pretty sure, could have just said "we have the right to make whatever merch we want regardless of your preferences, and you're contractually obliged to keep making the comics, end of discussion"
if that understanding is correct, it says a lot about how stubborn Watterson was
Environmentally.
He specifically said how creeped out he is by the rate at which we push species to extinction.
The trippy as fuck animated Far Side specials.
I believe he had a unique contract
That was my favorite part of Halloween when I was a kid. I was really sad when my local station stopped running it.
I feel like if C&H was running today that a bunch of shitty redpill/incel/gamergate/take your pick types would idolize Calvin as a role model of whatever toxic bullshit you wanna name while Watterson would be screaming about how he's just a jerkass kid.
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Many are just pure absurdity; like the cow tools one (per Larson) has no deep meaning, he just thought the idea of a cow having some weird tool-objects was amusing so he drew it
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
It exists perfectly in it's medium.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat