The Comics Curmudgeon and it's hilarious daily dissection of comic strips has become something of an obsession for me this summer. In particular, the in-depth weirdness of what's going on in Mary Worth. Yeah, you heard that right. I have been tricked into actually enjoying Mary Worth. Well, maybe more along the lines of "enjoying reading others mock Mary Worth".
Oh, and yes, that guy above does indeed bear an uncanny resemblance to Captain Kangaroo. And yes, Mary should have known trouble was brewing when he moved in next door. His last name's flipping Kelrast for crying out loud. Kelrast? Stalker? Hello?
Even weirder, someone has actually taken the stilted dialogue, the bizarre body positioning and inexplicable lack of intercharacter eye-contact and turned it into cinematic minimalism at its most inspired. Five short films done by framing the actors exactly as seen in a series of Mary Worth strips from 1998. By about the second or third one you just may become too creeped out to ever set eyes on the funnypages again, if you can keep from giggling that is. Bonus points for the creepy "wind blowing song" on the soundtrack. (via everywhere)
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mary.worth.sucks.
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