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| Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! 2014-03-25. |
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| Todd the Dinosaur, 2014-03-28. |
Why are mimes consistently portrayed in comics as being really annoying? Is anyone actually bothered by mimes? Are mimes even common enough for people to have much of an opinion on them at all? Seems like a really weird target to pick. Is this some historical thing that has just become comedy shorthand even though it no longer makes sense, like slipping on banana skins? What did mimes ever do to deserve this?
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| Hägar the Horrible, 2014-03-27. |
Seeing that Hamlet's girlfriend's name here got me thinking about the names of comic strip characters and how weird they are. "Hernia" is certainly up there, but it's not as atypical as you might imagine.
On The Fastrack has "Fistula Breech", there's
Blondie's "Dagwood Bumstead",
B.C.'s "Cute Chick" and "Fat Broad". One of the kids in
Baby Blues goes by "Hammie".
Hi and Lois called their twins "Dot" and "Ditto", and there's Lois's brother
Beetle Bailey.
I don't know where I'm going with this, it's just something that struck me.
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