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Friday, December 10, 2010

Nerd Another Comic Strip Bites the Dust

Posted by on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM

It's been a bad year for women on the funny pages. First Little Orphan Annie goes down in flames, (booo!) then Cathy kicks it (hooray!) and now Brenda Starr is being retired. I liked Brenda Starr a lot more than, say, Apartment 3G; for one thing it occasionally had some action. For another thing, Brenda's love interest, Basil St. John, was a weird guy with an eyepatch who would always pop up in bizarre situations when you least expected him. And third, I'm a sucker for that 1940s "girl reporter" schtick (although Lois Lane will always be first in my heart; sorry Brenda).

Now all we have to remember Brenda Starr by is a very bad movie starring Brooke Shields from 1989:

 

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Will in Seattle 1
God that movie sucked.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on December 10, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 2
Good riddance.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on December 10, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Fnarf 3
Bummer. I'm going to miss these story strips, where the guy could actually draw a little, unlike the clumsy stick-figure garbage that fills my paper every morning, when they're all gone.

But when you dis Apartment 3-G, you're asking for a FNARFDOWN, dag nab it. I'll sic Margo on you.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on December 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM
yeswad 4
yah what would the comics curmudgeon do without the ladies of 3-G? theres only so much mary worth you can handle in a day.
Posted by yeswad on December 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM
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That darling Lu-Ann was a linguistics major. So everyone except Fnarf shut up.
Posted by LuisitaPhD on December 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM
Fnarf 6
Thank you, Lusita, my dear. How much do I owe you?
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on December 10, 2010 at 2:58 PM
eclexia 7
I wonder how that movie got cast without Madonna?
Posted by eclexia on December 10, 2010 at 11:13 PM
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Seņor Fnarf, the one item missing from my personal library is Reglamento y Ceremonial de la Corte, the rules of correct behavior during Maximiliano and Carolota's reign.

So when you go to Mexico City pick me up a copy and we'll be even.
Posted by LuisitaPhD on December 11, 2010 at 7:51 AM

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