So thanks to @dumbingofage I am COMPLETELY ENTHRALLED by this current Mary Worth(!) storyline where some dude abuses prescription painkillers. The drug abuse isn’t the funny part- this is a Real Problem that doesn’t get the attention it deserves, and I think authors’ hearts are in the right place. But the hackneyed writing and INCREDIBLE art make this one of the funniest comics I’ve read in ages. A @joshreads style breakdown of my favorite panels follows. I’ll go in roughly chronological order.
The greatest line committed to newsprint.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS FACE also his girlfriend looks like she’s in her 50s
LISTEN ALL Y’ALL IT’S SABOTAGE
In times of mental and emotional duress, antidepressants can be a life-saving therapeutic…oh. Oh those aren’t antidepressants are they.
EATER OF SOULS (AND ALSO VICODIN)
That’s how I hold my hands when I type too. I’m doing it right now.
“Next stop” is traditionally a segue to some sort of travel metaphor, but such banality is beneath the writer of MARY WORTH. And what is he drinking? MIII_||’<?
Obama’s original slogan was much more controversial.