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| A recent Mary Worth comic, as reconfigured by your humble blogger. The "POOF" is from Wizard of Id. |
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| Dr. Jeff Porky. |
This is another doctored
Mary Worth comic, crudely reconfigured by me in tribute (?) to John Woo's
Face/Off. It features sixtysomething widow Mary Worth, an advice-slinging gentlewoman of leisure, and her long-time, long-suffering boyfriend, Jefferson "Jeff" Cory, MD, a retired chief of staff from the local hospital. Mary and Jeff are both residents of Santa Royale, CA, a sleepy, pastel-colored burg where Mary lives in a plush condo community called Charterstone. (I think Jeff lives in Charterstone, too, but I'm not 100% sure on that. It doesn't matter, since everyplace in
Mary Worth looks the same.) The reason I know any of this is because of Josh Fruhlinger's marvelous
Comics Curmudgeon blog, where I'm a near-daily commentator and where
Mary Worth, currently written by Karen Moy and drawn by Joe Giella, is one of the strips
routinely up for discussion/ridicule. Of all the strips regularly featured on Comics Curmudgeon,
Mary Worth is perhaps closest to my heart. It's even funnier than
Mark Trail and
Apartment 3-G, which is saying a lot
. There's just something so endearingly square about it that I can't help but love it -- the stilted dialogue, the glacial plots, the questionable fashion choices, and the bizarre-looking food. (Who can forget Mary's famous salmon squares?) In all,
Mary Worth is one of the fleeting pleasures which help make life worth living, which is apparently why I decided to morph Dr. Jeff with Porky Pig in that picture you see off to the right. Maybe it's because Jeff and Porky really know how to rock a blazer.
