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When I recently returned from an out-of-state vacation, I was disappointed to discover that the daily comic strip, Diesel Sweeties, had been removed from the Rocky’s funny pages.
Perhaps the comics editor concluded that the strip’s target audience — sharp, hip and young — have long since abandoned newspapers. Clearly, its presence offered stark contrast to the tedious “one-joke” banality evident in other comics.
And speaking of those other strips, here are some unsolicited suggestions for further deletions from the comics section: prune Rose is Rose, throw Over the Hedge under the bus, euthanize Garfield, put the Pajama Diaries to bed, and send the hoary Hagar the Horrible back to the Dark Ages.

Karl B. Dworak, Denver

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Mr. Dworak --

I'm sure glad that I'm not part of your "sharp, hip and young" crowd if it necessitates drooling over the banality of the non-humorous Diesel Sweeties. I actually thought it was an experiment to see if a six year old's attempt at commercial humor would sell.

The RMN comics editor is pretty bad; but, thank God it's not you with your taste and demonstrated IQ.

Get your daily fill of the crap, without making the rest of us suffer, at:

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/RMN

I can't believe anybody actually read that trash more than once. Goes to proof that morons do indeed live and walk among us...

My God! To think that people like the letter writer actually live among us. That mentality is truly frightening in it's simplicity and diminished capacity. Anyone know if he's related to poster "Un" Truth...

Thank you, anonymous comment posters, for your insightful analysis of my IQ. Spot on! Clearly, my intellect and taste pale in comparison to your spineless observations.

You're most welcome! I'm responsible for the first entry and apologize for not having my screen name in place. So please attribute the first post referring to your "taste and demonstrated IQ" to me.

Face it; comics and humor are very subjective. You set yourself up for some jabs by establishing the "strip’s target audience — sharp, hip and young" as being superior to those who appreciate the older "tedious “one-joke” banality... comics"; which you took shots at.

Don't shoot unless willing to be shot back at.

I rarely read the comics, or the paper for that matter. Clearly, I'm part of the sharp hip and young crowd which has long since abandoned newspapers. This flame-volley, however, piqued my interest enough to check out the link to Diesel Sweeties posted above.

I've got to say that if the Diesel Sweeties cartoon is more regularly like today's "Leching Hour" cartoon than it is like the few humorous strips I've had sent to me via e-mail, I might have to agree with the (mostly) anonymous flamers above. You sure you want this one back in the paper?

Cheers, CA. While we apparently don't agree on humor - I don't long for the return of Thomas Nast - I think you'll agree that your commentary, scatological or otherwise, has more bite when it's not tossed from behind the wall of anonymity. And now that you've put your dentures in, please chew away at my delicate self-worth.

Jeez, good thing my bro' didn't take any pot shots at "Family Circus" - I'd fear for his safety from all the Jeffy and Barfy lovers out there.

Once again I would like to say that the RMN forums have some of the funniest writers I have ever seen. There is a lot of talent here. Karl Dworak was one example.

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