When I first found Edge City, I thought it might have potential: a family comic, with the twist that the family is Jewish. Huh. It might have some interesting cultural insight amidst the humor.
Color me wrong. The Jewishness creeps in to pretty much annoy the family members (“Oh, God. Mom is making gefiltah fish from scratch — it’s a nuisance and no one likes it anyway.” “We’re going on a cruise with all those wonderful buffets, and it’s during Passover, and we can’t eat the breads and pastries!”). Cripes, people, be the Reform Jews you are (I guess they are — there’s no evidence of much orthodox ritual otherwise), or stop the kvetching.
Along with the being-Jewish-is-a-pain-in-the-tuchus aspect is some atrocious drawing. I’m not the only one who’s compared Mom’s lips to a blob of Silly Putty, and since I don’t know the names of the characters, I’ll leave it to the Life of Brian School of Onomastics to refer to them as Mr. and Mrs. Big Nose.
And now, Mr. Big Nose has allergies or sinus problems or a small elephant up his nose, and he’s been annoying and/or frightening those around him for the past week. When the “fun” in this “funnies” is based on an as yet untapped bodily secretion — phlegm — it’s time to deep-six the strip. But not before we make some use of Mr. Big Nose — thanks heavens it’s Hospital Week in some of our favorite serials!
Okay, so Drew’s a young’un compared to some of the docs we know — Rex is an old hand with problem patients:
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I love Typhoid Larry! Is he getting his own strip, like Mork or something?
I know you’re spoken for, but I’m just going to leave an offer of marriage on the table in case things don’t work out with Mr. Bats:[
I can barely stand to look at him (and by him, I mean Typhoid Larry, not mr. bats:[ ). I think it’s the brown tongue. Well, that’s at least part of it, although I consider him the least annoying character in that strip (only because they don’t have a cat).
I’m glad you cleared that up – when I first read the first line, my heart leaped at the chance that you were talking about mr. bats:[