The Zombie Family Circus

7 Responses to “The Zombie Family Circus”

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   bmj2k January 17, 2012 at 12:02 am #

   There was a huge debate among The Editors and Staff of Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride about the caption. Leave it or change it? The leave it faction won by a slim margin.

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   Thomas Stazyk January 17, 2012 at 1:12 am #

   A vast improvement, in my opinion. Family Circus ranks right up there with Nancy and Marmaduke in the Irritating Comic Hall of Fame.

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     bmj2k January 17, 2012 at 1:38 am #

     Funny you should mention Marmaduke as he is the subject of an upcoming Saturday Comics. And it is not pleasant.

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   Daniel January 17, 2012 at 6:04 am #

   ANYTHING is an improvement over the original Family Circus. No disrespect meant to the late Bil Keane, but the Family Circus just had TOO MUCH cloying, sugary – sweet, diabetes – inducing cuteness to be anything approaching funny. Preachy & moralizing, yes, funny, no way.

   They even did 2 animated ( Christmas & Valentines Day ) specials in the 60’s or 70’s, & they were basically scripted to appeal to 5 – year – old kids. They still have them in clips on Youtube.

   Has anyone ever seen the ” Dysfunctional Family Circus ” ? Keane’s original panels with new crazier captions.

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     bmj2k January 17, 2012 at 6:11 am #

     Ohhhhhhhhhhh…… wow. I think I saw that way back when.

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       Daniel January 17, 2012 at 6:22 am #

       I think there was a scene in it where the kids wanted Santa to bring their dear old Grand – dad back from the GRAVE for Christmas. CREEPY ( In my best Dana Snyder voice ) !!

       Grand – dad made plenty periodic appearances in ” angelic / ghostly ” form as it was.

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   Daniel January 17, 2012 at 6:07 am #

   Oops. Posted that last comment w / out asking to be notified of answers / replies etc. Eek !

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