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What OET lacks in actual humour, it manages to be charming by showing us that the more things change, the more they stay the same - and that "products of their time" could still have a fairly modern moral compass.
Personally I don’t see it?
Good fucking lord! What are we even doing as a country? The only difference between now and then is that now we have iPhones, but they had cooler trains.
As some great Talking Heads once put it.
"Same as it ever was."
Or as some great Rush once put it.
Plus ca change, Plus c’est la meme chose,
Yeah, a lot of newspaper-printed comics haven't always gone for a big punchline, especially the much older ones like this. Sometimes it's just charm or a more episodic "I wonder what [familiar character] is getting up to today!"
I'd say even a more modern one like Calvin and Hobbes would fall into a similar category.
Absolutely true. They really are more slow emotion based "day in the life" when printed in a newspaper. I mean I imagine they would have to be just for how many you make when doing them.
Pearls before swine, Zits, Mutts, Baby Blues, Lockhorns, etc and so on. Really rely on simple stories sometimes without much of a punch line. Even Hagar was mostly about how vikings could still have dream homestead blues and dysfunctional marriage as a punchline.
I think the best long running comics connect to that sense of empathy and familiarity.
