Friday, August 10, 2012

Mary Worth 1,374

Ha Ha Ha Ha! It's funny because it's an ironic reference to the sinking of the RMS Titanic which happened in 1912, a century ago. Except that it's NOT funny because this story was a trivial recreation of the sinking of the Costa Concordia which happened in 2012, this year.

Just in case anyone was wondering what the email address for King Features' public affairs is, it's kfs-public-relations@hearst.com. You know, just in case you wanted to let them know how awesome you think Mary Worth is. Because it is. It's the funniest strip in the newspaper. Let's not lose sight of that.

Today's Full Strip

27 comments:

  1. ThorpnotizedAugust 10, 2012 at 6:31 AM

    Today's strip gets my vote for the most ridiculous Mary Worth daily strip of this year.

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  2. Not WorthyAugust 10, 2012 at 7:33 AM

    "Like something out of a movie?". How about "Right out of a Vanity Fair article.".
    Her self-centeredness is offensive.

    This is a new low.

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  3. fauxprofAugust 10, 2012 at 7:44 AM

    Karen Moy actually decided that this misbegotten story needed a punchline? Add "clueless" to "tasteless" in her curriculum vita. If this were a Twilight Zone episode, she would find herself trapped in the Worthiverse to be harangued by Mary in a room full of Toby's ghastly clown paintings.

    Rant concluded. Go on with whatever you were doing.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 9:06 AM

    Come on, people!

    This has been the single best storyline in Mary Worth since the arrival and subsequent unfortunate demise of Aldo Kelrast!

    What's a little tastelessness between friends?

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  5. limestone lennyAugust 10, 2012 at 9:14 AM

    wow !!!!!!

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  6. NanceAugust 10, 2012 at 9:24 AM

    On another note, I am thrilled to see the return of the BurlyKenos, safe within the confines of the spacious Barbie RescueCopter. Those Robocops do good work.

    Apparently, the copter also includes an on-board Salon, for Dawn has nary a hair out of place, and looks bewitching, necklace included.

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  7. LouiseFAugust 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM

    I take back what I said yesterday about Giella bucking for a career illustrating First Aid manuals with his rendering of Wilbur's injured leg. Today he depicts the victims, who are doubtless in shock (why else the bonehead comments??), NOT covered by blankets. Effective First Aid treatment would include keeping the victims warm. Instead, as Nance has pointed out, they look brushed, coifed, and ready for their next adventure. . . A miscarriage of information as well as taste.

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  8. KitKatAugust 10, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    Although this misguided (putting it mildly) plot was hatched by Karen Moy, some editor had to give it the green light. Bleah.

    Except for Wilbur's slightly loosened tie (and yesterday's wounded knee), father and daughter have come through the trauma remarkably well. Dawn's helmet hair is glued to her head, her heart pendant is back, and she's even sporting cleavage. What fun it will be to talk about at the next Charterstone Pool Party!

    Do those heads in the first panel belong to the ersatz Keno Brothers?

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  9. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM

    Hey, let's all stop reading Mary Worth. And Wanders, please terminate your blog. Be done with it already.

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  10. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM

    I'd hate to see Wanders abandon MW unless he switched to an equally absurd strip such as Mark Trail. Instead of stealing from Vanity Fair, Elrod steals from himself. This is at least the 3rd time in recent memory that bad guys have tried to grab Rusty's camera.

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  11. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 10:21 AM

    I can't believe how indignant some people are about this story line! Maybe you should be reading "Pluggers", or "Beetle Bailey" instead.

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  12. DelilahAugust 10, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    I agree with both your posts, Anonymous! I think the rest of the commenters have lost sight of the point of this blog.

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  13. fauxprofAugust 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM

    The point of this blog is to comment on Mary Worth, sometimes happily, sometimes satirically, and yes, sometimes indignantly. It's a harmless pastime. I think most of us enjoy reading each others comments and wisecracks. Stick with us, Wanders.

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  14. limestone lennyAugust 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM

    uhhmmmmmm....... what is the point of the blog ???

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  15. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM

    This blog has a point? Who cares? It's fun to mock Karen Moy although it's getting way too easy.

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  16. limestone lennyAugust 10, 2012 at 11:02 AM

    i hope there isnt some deeper cause that im missing.....i just kinda screw around

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  17. heydaveAugust 10, 2012 at 11:35 AM

    Having fun at the expense of someone's overly passionate play is what brought me to this blog. When said blowhard of morality went off to plagiarizing actual events and suffering to bolster her mewling platitudes, that requires slapping.

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  18. Peggy olaonAugust 10, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    To paraphrase Dawn and Celine, "This blog must go on!"

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  19. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM

    Where can I buy the hair products these people use? After a ship tips over and a helicopter pulls them up over ocean winds, nobody has a hair out of place!

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  20. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 1:09 PM

    Re: hair care products, let's have a shoutout to one of the sponsors of Mary Worth et al.,

    Hair Helmets by Plasticizer (TM)

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  21. jpAugust 10, 2012 at 1:23 PM

    So glad Dawn was able to bounce back so cheerily from observing "people killing eachother at the lifeboats" in what would have been what, maybe 15 minutes since? And that she's not bothered by any terror or empathy for the victims trapped and drowning inside the capsized ship (how most of the Costa Concordia's deaths occurred) even as she speaks. We wouldn't want a raging case of PTSD (or, for that matter, a dash of human compassion) to interfere with her getting over Dave.

    Giella & Moy have really jumped the shark. And (in answer to the concern-trolling) while I usually read this blog because of the witty comments and funny snark, I agree with Wanders that there is something truly despicable in what Moy & Giella have done here. I would go further to say that this storyline is not merely "crass," or "tacky" but utterly morally bankrupt in exploiting and now trivializing this tragedy and the very real trauma it inflicted on both the living and the dead (I can think of few worse ways to die than being trapped and drowning, and to imagine that my loved one had died in that way would be a horror I would take to my own grave).

    (some of this X-posted @ Comics Curmudgeon)

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  22. hia5August 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM

    I guess I'm happy that Dawn, Wilbur, and the Keno Brothers have been saved. But I'm afraid that poor, golden-haired little Annie Aiuto didn't make it. May I propose a minute of silence in her memory.

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  23. PunkyAugust 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM

    Dawn's face in the second panel is so dreamy, I fear she is thinking (wait for it) "Reminds me of Dave." I am not sure she has yet learned her Valuable Lesson. Perhaps she will need the platitude administration of Mary, back home in Charterstone, to drive the point home to her (and us).

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  24. VickiAugust 10, 2012 at 5:24 PM

    I don't see any other Barbie helicoptors or boats rescuing other passengers. Apparently these four alone have won the lottery of life so to speak! Blub blub blub go the rest, under the sea! OH WELL! Sorry about their luck...sux to be them. But hey, how funny was it that they played "My Heart Will Go On!?"

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  25. VickiAugust 10, 2012 at 5:29 PM

    ...that was sarcasm of course. I think Moy really stepped in it with this plotline.

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  26. Limber JoeAugust 10, 2012 at 8:27 PM

    Really. I don't know where to begin. So I won't...

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  27. Sandi EgoAugust 10, 2012 at 10:44 PM

    Will Dawn's heart go on? Or will she bury her heart at wounded knee? See, I can tastelessly use tragic history to make a punchline, too.

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