Comments on: Reader scandalized by exposure to naked Zits

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:59:08 +0000

Baffling I say! (apologies for the poor diction)

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:57:26 +0000

My wife was baffled. Having never seen or heard of “Love is…” it was just baffling to her.

By: Donald G

Donald G — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:18:55 +0000

When I was a kid, I figured they were supposed to be Adam and Eve before the Fall.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:18:54 +0000

Sadly, this is a situation where a Simpsons quote is unavoidable. “It’s about two naked eight-year-olds who are married.”

By: Donald G

Donald G — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:07:59 +0000

Ted Trump clearly wasn’t reading the comics section back in 1972, when I first encountered the “Love Is” panels. I was six in 1972. Heck, even my dentist and pediatrician had the occasional “Love is…” panels taped to their doorways.

We, as a society, are clearly doomed.

By: Steve LeCouilliard

Steve LeCouilliard — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:37:17 +0000

I wonder what these enjoyable comics are? And isn’t ‘appropriate comic’ an oxymoron? Humor depends on subverting the expected. That’s why you can’t tell the same joke to the same people twice. No surprise = no funny.

Mind you, I guess people who are still able to get a chuckle from Hi and Lois are beyond help anyway.

Steve

By: Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:39:16 +0000

>> If you’re somehow unfamiliar with Love Is …, it’s an often-difficult-to-stomach ode to, well, love, that stars two characters who, despite their nudity, display no secondary sexual features. Except for their hair and eyelashes, they’re indistinguishable from each other.>>

Not quite!

Careful study reveals that Love Is Girl has nipples. Love Is Guy has none.

Clearly, everyone who’s ever bought a newspaper with LOVE IS in it should go to jail.

kdb

By: Chris Mautner

Chris Mautner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:37:37 +0000

We actually got an angry call at work the other day about that strip. Guy was claiming we were putting child porn on the funnies pages.

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:51:13 +0000

That “SFW!” warning cracked me up.

By: Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:36:24 +0000

Trump is probably offended by the characterization of people in his demographic: folks without any visible sex organs.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:08:11 +0000

They can’t all be Marmadukes