So I take it wasn’t originally intended to be the Peanuts theme? Like how the Harry Potter theme is called Hedwig’s theme and was originally only meant for Hedwig.
I’ve been following Adorkable for a while, but this is the first time I can remember that it’s had a strip that so completely relies on referential humor. I feel like it came out of nowhere and, if you took away the references, there’d be nothing left.
On top of that, the reason the football prank in Peanuts stayed funny was because Schulz kept doing different takes on it – there was always some new way for Charlie Brown to believe that, this time, the outcome would be different, before Lucy brought him crashing back down to earth (quite literally); and many readers found that kind of stubborn gullibility relatable, so laughing at themselves by proxy. But here, coming in a vacuum, I find it hard either to laugh at Spike’s moment of folly or to identify with him.
Unless the humor is supposed to come from what the whole thing says about the current relationship dynamic between Starlight and Spike…
So I take it wasn’t originally intended to be the Peanuts theme? Like how the Harry Potter theme is called Hedwig’s theme and was originally only meant for Hedwig.
@ewilles
Or maybe Family Circus?
@Neko Majin C
Yes
I know I do. I have three large additions of the Far Side gallery sitting somewhere back home.
I wonder if I still have an anthology of their comics around somewhere.
I seed what you did there. Nothing wrong with a kernel of humor, but too many puns might drive the folks nuts.
You can get a crack out of
Pistachios though
||Far Side is superior ||
it was at least interesting.
Eh, Peanuts remain timeless. It’s a fair enough reference.
Next ask if, given how much the characters’ personalities have been changed, this should actually be a My Little Pony fan-comic.
On top of that, the reason the football prank in Peanuts stayed funny was because Schulz kept doing different takes on it – there was always some new way for Charlie Brown to believe that, this time, the outcome would be different, before Lucy brought him crashing back down to earth (quite literally); and many readers found that kind of stubborn gullibility relatable, so laughing at themselves by proxy. But here, coming in a vacuum, I find it hard either to laugh at Spike’s moment of folly or to identify with him.
Unless the humor is supposed to come from what the whole thing says about the current relationship dynamic between Starlight and Spike…
</unsolicited overanalysis>
Edited
Also, Spike is a blockhead.