Image/Skybound saw what Andrews McMeel has been doing for years - publishing the collected strips of popular online cartoonists - and said, I’ll have a piece of that! and now we has Zach M. Stafford’s Good Comics For Bad People: An Extra Fabulous Collection.
They’re gag strips, mostly four panels long, and a fair few are actually quite funny. Stafford likes to take everyday sayings and turn them into jokes. Like a crying security guard saying his boss forgot his birthday, so the robber sneaks past him into the boss’s office - the boss asks how he got in? You let your guard down! A girl in a club asks a guy if he wants to get out of here - he says yes, she shows him the exit and closes the door behind him once he walks through it. I slept like a baby last night - I shit my pants and screamed for hours.
Some are just plain silly, in an amusing way. Like a guy saying these bananas are going bad, and then the banana says fuck you! Or a manager firing an employee telling him not to let the door hit him on the way out, and then a door with arms and legs punches the guy. Or a girl asking a guy if that’s a banana in his pocket or is he just happy to see her - it’s a banana, but then the banana has an erection and says sup.
A few of the jokes definitely come off as dad-ish. Like the cartoonish ghost that’s wearing a beret - a French ghost, why do you smell so bad? I’m covered in sheet. But some are genuinely funny like the person looking up at the sky: The sun is finally coming out, and the clouds part and the sun goes I’m GAAAAAAYYY! and then flares really brightly, burning the person to death. Or the doctor telling his patient he has two weeks to live - then shows up two weeks later with a knife, attempting to murder him.
I’m mentioning only the ones I liked, and there’s more, but a number are just meh - strips you read, have no reaction to and then move onto the next. They’re never bad, just forgettable.
Still, if you enjoyed Sarah Andersen’s Sarah’s Scribbles or Ben Zaehringer’s Berkeley Mews strips, this one’s not as good as either but it’s in the same vein, and if any of the above made you giggle, check out Zach M. Stafford’s Good Comics For Bad People: An Extra Fabulous Collection.
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