Strangest Comics Article of the Year

This article in USA Today about the super-duper Blondie crossover that is appearing in newspapers to celebrate the strip's 75th anniversary as the world's most baffling entertainment success story provides the creepies on a lot of levels. First of all, comparing Blondie to Paris Hilton does nothing to further the appeal of the strip but might once and for all bring the Tijuana Bible into 1930s comic strip continuity. Second, the picture of Dagwood and Blondie included is way more scary than it is tender, with Dagwood's strange leer and Exorcist-style neck twisting, not to mention Blondie's odd collapse away from her husband. It looks like a scene from Born to Kill. Finally, you have dueling bizarre quotes from Mort Walker ("Reading 'Blondie' is like breathing.") and Dean Young (on father Chic: "He was a cartoonist kind of guy.")

The moral: we must have comic strip crossovers more often.
 
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