Blondie, 12/5/22

Look, I've grudgingly accepted that Elmo, a child to whom the Bumstead family is not related but who nevertheless just kind of hangs out at their house a lot, is a major recurring character in Blondie. But what I will not accept is jokes that are only about Elmo and his life, rather than jokes in which Elmo mainly exists to create opportunities for Dagwood to obsess about food or remark negatively about the kids today and their phones or whatever. You hear me? Nobody wants this. Nobody wants to open the comics pages in 10 years and check out the Sunday installment of Blondie and her Husband Dagwood's Pal Elmo and think "Gee, Dagwood and Blondie haven't been in this strip in a while now, have they?" So let's just put the brakes on this right now.

Funky Winkerbean, 12/5/22