Phenopath wrote:I think I was also distracted by the thought that I never found comic books funny as a kid. I vaguely recall reading Garfield, etc without cracking a smile. Am I weird, or are kids comic books not funny?
I don't recall ever laughing at Garfield. I don't even roll my eyes at Garfield. There isn't anything about Garfield significant enough to inspire any reaction at all. Reading Garfield is like reading the manual that comes with a lava lamp. The cartoons I enjoyed as a child are the ones I still enjoy today, namely "Dilbert" and "Calvin and Hobbes". (I used to love "The Far Side" but I think I outgrew it. At any rate, now that I have The Drabblecast, there isn't any reason to care about The Far Side. Why eat a hot dog when you have steak?)
I felt kind of the same way about this story as Norvaljoe. The production was absolutely superb, and the premise was interesting, but the story was pretty predictable and tipped its hand near the beginning. Once Charlie revealed his awareness of the audience, everything else was more or less inevitable.
My big question is this: Is Charlie
really having an existential crisis, or is he just saying the lines the cartoonist put in his word balloon? Is he a real person with real anxiety about the audience our is that just a gag the cartoonist made up? Would the answer really make any difference?