AFS Cinema
Loves 'Modern,' Not So Fond of 'Maakies'
RECEIVED Fri., Sept. 26, 2008
Dear Editor,
First of all thanks for accepting e-mails. It's so much more convenient. Second of all thank you so much for hosting the comic This Modern World. I love it so much. It's like a miniserving of The Daily Show in print. It's always very funny and very poignant and relevant. Awesome.
In contrast I have to say: The other front-section comic you've had lately, Maakies, I find to be consistently not only not funny but also a disappointing waste of time. There is no moral, no message, nothing that adds anything to my life – I just wind up saying to myself week after week after reading it, "That's just disgusting, or ridiculous/stupid,” or, "Why are they running this?" I say thumbs down. We need and want more laughs and more intelligence in our comics. They are out there. Stop wasting our time with this one. It's idiocracy on paper.
First of all thanks for accepting e-mails. It's so much more convenient. Second of all thank you so much for hosting the comic This Modern World. I love it so much. It's like a miniserving of The Daily Show in print. It's always very funny and very poignant and relevant. Awesome.
In contrast I have to say: The other front-section comic you've had lately, Maakies, I find to be consistently not only not funny but also a disappointing waste of time. There is no moral, no message, nothing that adds anything to my life – I just wind up saying to myself week after week after reading it, "That's just disgusting, or ridiculous/stupid,” or, "Why are they running this?" I say thumbs down. We need and want more laughs and more intelligence in our comics. They are out there. Stop wasting our time with this one. It's idiocracy on paper.
Stephen Summers