{"id":6335,"date":"2011-07-06T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2011-07-06T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:06:26","slug":"another-one-for-the-round-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"Another one for the round file"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first found Edge City<\/em>, I thought it might have potential:\u00a0 a family comic, with the twist that the family is Jewish.\u00a0 Huh. It might have some interesting cultural insight amidst the humor.<\/p>\n

Color me wrong.\u00a0 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<\/em>.”\u00a0 “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<\/em>!”).\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Along with the being-Jewish-is-a-pain-in-the-tuchus<\/em> aspect is some atrocious drawing.\u00a0 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 <\/em>School of Onomastics to refer to them as Mr. and Mrs. Big Nose.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0\u00a0 When the “fun” in this “funnies” is based on an as yet untapped bodily secretion — phlegm<\/em> — it’s time to deep-six the strip.\u00a0 But not before we make some use of Mr. Big Nose — thanks heavens it’s Hospital Week in some of our favorite serials!<\/p>\n

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Okay, so Drew’s a young’un compared to some of the docs we know — Rex is an old hand with problem patients:<\/p>\n

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