This week
Diamond Lil decided to prove that a perfectly good joke can be completely ruined by presenting it in the wrong medium. Look at this:
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| Diamond Lil, 2014-04-07. |
If this were the storyboard for an animated cartoon, I would be right on board. I can see exactly what's happening and it would definitely be funny in motion. But like this it isn't. The next three days just did this same joke again, and if you took the whole lot and made a little animation of them, you'd have something worthwhile. Instead of something lazy that doesn't quite work.
Have I mentioned that The Creeps is fantastic? Well, I'm saying it again. Look at this series.
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| The Creeps, 2014-04-08. |
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| The Creeps, 2014-04-09. |
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| The Creeps, 2014-04-10. |
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| The Creeps, 2014-04-11. |
Comics one, two and four stand on their own merits, but when you're skimming over the day's comics, number three looks like a mistake. It looks like they ran the comic from two days ago again. But the didn't. Look closely. I must admit, it took someone else pointing it out before I spotted it.
The thing that really sets The Creeps apart as a comic is that this isn't an isolated incident. Jean Floch is doing creative stuff like this all the time. Here's one from February:
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| The Creeps, 2014-02-06. |
And
another one from the same month (which unfortunately GoComics have kind of ruined). Or, my favourite, this series that ran in December last year:
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| The Creeps, 2013-12-16. |
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| The Creeps, 2013-12-17. |
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| The Creeps, 2013-12-18. |
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| The Creeps, 2013-12-19. |
Seriously, read
The Creeps, it's really good.
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