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The Far Side is coming back?
The Geek
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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.
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Still waiting on Dan "Man of his Word" Ryckert to eat a hat
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