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The Lockhorns
The creator of this strip has allegedly been dead for 15 years, and I swear it is still funny. I swear!! Where does his dead self keep coming up with these zingers week after week? You think I am joking but there is no irony here. These two marrieds just keep hurling the thunderbolts of comedy decade after decade and let me tell you, this reader keeps coming back for more.
Look, what do I have to do to convince you? Check out these strips. Are these not actually humorous? In fact they are. "I'm staying in shape, Loretta. This is the shape I'm staying in." I love it!
Verdict: Keep it coming.
9 Chickweed Lane
First of all I just realized, where in the hell is "9 Chickweed Lane" in this comic strip? Juliette lives on a farm that is most assuredly not on Chickweed lane and Edda lives in New York. I don't get it. Yet another strip about women written by a man, it features extremely thin women in high-waisted pants acting sassy, yet seductive. Things really fell apart for the strip when, wishfully, Amos the knock-kneed nerd hooked up with Edda, the pencil-thin blonde ballet dancing uber-babe. It's like the central conceit of all Woody Allen films: that Woody Allen is attractive to women. Men, I've got an announcement. Hot women never fall in love with nerds. Not ever. Don't go bringing up Billy Joel. Look what happened there.
Verdict: Edda does not love Amos. Let's be honest with ourselves about this.
posted by Strikethru at
9:18 PM
6 Comments:
Well, can't say I agree with you about those Lockhorns. I've always been repulsed by their neverending bickering. Have they considered divorce? Murder-suicide? If I wanted to watch people argue and sit on their asses watching TV, I'd, um, I'm not sure what I'd do.
Anyways, maybe it's called 9 Chickweed Lane because they're chicks, and they're tall and skinny like weeds. Not sure what the 9 is about. I counted them and there's not 9.
Frankly, since I stared in my own comic book (yes, "stared") I feel that I can speak to some of these issues. I have known the Lockhorns since they were just pencil squiggles on the back of Bill and Bunny's high school binders. I actually cheated on Mrs. Robinson with Loretta back in the day (Leroy thanked me for taking her off his hands for a little while). Those crazy kids.
As for 9 Chickweed Lane... smoke 'em if you've got 'em.
There is no point to this post. please don't read it.
keep up the good work tiny-dog!
Mor dor,
Are you sure there are not 9 chicks? I mean, there is that old lady and those women at Juliard fighting over Amos (Amos is clearly the Mary Sue of the comic strip artist), and the cat Solange, and that nun-woman and the other nun, and...
As for Fred, the Lockhorns most definitely don't swing. I have it on good authority that you are full of bunk.
I don’t know about you, but I look forward each day to Heathcliff’s crazy cat antics, Dolly’s witticisms in Family Circus, and to see if Mr. Wilson ever changes in Dennis the Menace. There are still some great comics though, like Get Fuzzy, Baby Blues, and Zits.
Zits is totally next on my list of comics to discuss. Something needs to be said about Jeremy's attitude.
My favorite Lockhorns strip is the one where Loretta is placing a plate of food in front of Leroy. Loretta says, "How about a nice dinner?" to which Leroy replies, "No thanks, I'll eat this instead."
BTW: I used this on my wife once, who does not think it is as funny as I do.
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