{"id":2615,"date":"2009-06-25T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2009-06-27T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T22:23:31","slug":"the-most-likable-person-in-the-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"The most likable person in the strip&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know your comic strip sucks when the most personable person in it is a furson (Exhibit A: <em>Funky Winkerbean<\/em>; Exhibit B: <em>Crankshaft<\/em>; Exhibit C: <em>9 Chickweed Lane<\/em>; Exhibit D: <em>Gasoline Alley<\/em>).  <\/p>\n<p>If your main character <strong>is<\/strong> a cat, the <em>cat<\/em> isn&#8217;t likable, you are so, <em>so<\/em> screwed.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I give you Exhibit A:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/not-fw-32.jpg\" alt=\"not-fw-32\" title=\"not-fw-32\" width=\"515\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/not-fw-32.jpg 515w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/not-fw-32-250x92.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But wait! It&#8217;s worse!  The next day&#8217;s strip, when it&#8217;s been made plain that Cayla is mentally unbalanced and finds Les <em>attractive<\/em>, has Les asking her to slow down: &#8220;&#8230;let&#8217;s not skip ahead to fast. Endings have to be earned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, <em><strong>WTF?!<\/strong><\/em>  No matter what the guys in Vatican City want you to believe, Les,<em>nobody likes a martyr!<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fw3.jpg\" alt=\"new-fw3\" title=\"new-fw3\" width=\"830\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fw3.jpg 830w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fw3-250x108.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Move on, Cayla. Please.<br \/>\nAnd Les? Be a martyr. <strong>Die.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay. Well. If you want to stick around, Cayla, at least I can offer some entertainment for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fw21.jpg\" alt=\"new-fw21\" title=\"new-fw21\" width=\"730\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fw21.jpg 730w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fw21-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know your comic strip sucks when the most personable person in it is a furson (Exhibit A: Funky Winkerbean; Exhibit B: Crankshaft; Exhibit C: 9 Chickweed Lane; Exhibit D: Gasoline Alley). If your main character is a cat, the cat isn&#8217;t likable, you are so, so screwed. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics","category-i-smell-something-funky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}