Comic Page Emergency!
My comics page philosophy is simple: any city any of whose newspapers' comics pages features "Cathy" and which is not rocked by anti-"Cathy" violence on at least a weekly basis deserves whatever comics it gets.
Current events in Atlanta are challenging this notion, however. The comics page recently added 5 new strips and deleted some others. I don't care, really. Cathy's still in the mix, so there's still a higher percentage of comics that look as if they were fingerpainted with snot than I normally like to see. However, they're also dangling some others over the balcony, and one that is on the edge is one of my favorites, "Monty."
Monty has some of the best drawing and some of the oddest gags you ever saw. But don't take my word for it. Today's strip combines both of those, with a seriously sleep-deprived Monty taking on a Security Guard gig at a local U-stor.
Now. The AJC is running a web poll to save one of five strips, ranging from execrable to Monty. Won't you vote for Monty? Apparently, some smartypants has initiated a campaign to stuff the balloting for the ever-mysterious "Judge Parker." Aside from that, which surely is an anomaly, the less-than-Monty "Sally Forth" is in the lead. Sorry, but if "For Better Or For Worse" is going to be cluttering up the page, we don't need another "Ain't normal life just zippy" strip like SF.
Vote Monty! Vote often!
CORRECTION: That's Monty's buddy Moondog doing the sleep-walking.