texasfight.org :: david

Growing up, breakfast was not exactly a family affair. Every week, my mother would stock the pantry and fridge full of Little Debbie and Hostess snacks. This is what I would have for breakfast. My favorites were chilled Hostess cup cakes and Choco-Bliss, along with a glass of milk. While eating my dessert for breakfast, I would read the comics. Even then, I knew they weren’t funny, but yet I would read every strip every morning… that is, except for those stupid soap opera strips.

Fast forward to the present: The comics are still not funny. But what is truly funny is the Comics Curmudgeon, a website that makes fun of the funnies. I’ve been reading this site for months, and it could be my favorite site to visit. Well, as it turns out, I was missing out on all the fun all these years — the soap opera comics are by far the most interesting! Take Mary Worth, for instance. The current plotline is that this younger man starts stalking Mary and tries to woo her. The backstory on this character is that his first wife drowned in her bathtub while he was passed out drunk. Back to the present — he’s annoying Mary so much that his ‘friends’ have an intervention and tells him to stay away. So he does — he goes straight to the liquor store and is now drinking and driving. Will he end up killing another?

Or take Judge Parker. The current story is that one of the daughters ‘outsourced’ her homework to a man in India who thinks she wants to marry him. So he comes over to the States and discovers she’s about 13 years old. And this Indian man is really nerdy, so the daughters have decided to give him a makeover.

I enjoy these two comics so much, I wrote a script that pulls the latest strips so I can view them on my site. Check them out!