There’s a lot of comedy and a variety of comedy in comics, if you include webstrips. But if you don’t include webstrips… well. There are so few of the kind of comedy I most admire which is … R-rated comedy that’s at least somewhat rooted in observation of life and observation of experience.

Teenagers from Mars has some serious moves, and Kyle Baker is god; I think very highly of Peter Bagge’s Hate. I don’t know where I’d rank Finals in the category; obviously, it’s hardly Best of Show, but tough field; still: I remember feeling like it was at least aiming at being something I enjoy, and I remember being happy with it for that reason at least.

You know: the joke-types were mostly lightly absurd black humor. There was a *heavy* Dr. Strangelove influence, if I remember right (which is fine by me; oh boy, I just think the world of Strangelove).

I remember feeling it started out better than it ended, but… you know: 3 or 4-issue miniseries. When don’t you feel that way about a 3-or-4 issue miniseries?

I like dumb comedies too; I f-ing love Hot Rod, say. The blacker, straighter comedies don’t score the same kind of laughs a good dumb one will. It’s a different kind of laugh. So: if you’re looking for heavier duty variety of ha-ha– it’s not that. From what I vaguely, barely remember.

I was reading it in college or just barely out of college; I think it’d be a very different read for me now. Anyways: Jill Thompson art. I like her art; her stuff was fun on that book, at least.

Yeah… Finals….

Which may have been due more to the time it came out, since it was right around Columbine and everybody was pulling stuff willy-nilly. At least that’s what I think I heard. Or it could have been a low sales thing.