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Friday, March 7, 2008

Mercury Farewell, Perry Bible Fellowship

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on Fri, Mar 7 at 2:41 PM

Oh, Marmaduke… what WILL you do next?

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Thanks to Marmaduke Explained.

AND WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF COMICS, the Mercury is very sad to report that one of our most favoritest and funniest comic strips, Perry Bible Fellowship, IS RETIRING. The very brilliant Nicholas Gurewitch has decided to hang his funny pen up and pursue other projects, leaving us bawling all over our newsprint. This week’s PBF is the last you’ll read (unless someone more persuasive than us can make him return), and though we’re devastated, we wish Nicholas the best of luck, while thanking him for loads of laffs.

THAT BEING SAID, we’re obviously looking for a new comic strip to fill his space. We’ll be trying out new cartoonists over the next few weeks in the paper and OF COURSE we invite all Blogtownies and readers to weigh in with suggestions and opinions on those auditioning for the slot. [Sorry, we will not run Cathy.]

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“Is it because I’m fat?”

Comments

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

ACHEWOOD is hereby second'd

RISE BLECKY YUCKARELLA RISE

One less weekly paper to read thank god.

Can I nominate Yehuda Moon?

Why don't you kill Dinosaur Comix while you're at it? Willamette Week's personals are funnier. Please look for two new comics. Please.

Can I nominate Married to the Sea?

PS: I'm pretty sure if you ask Johnny Ryan to come back you'll get Ziggy with a Hat treatment a' la Smell of Steve.

You should just run grisly photos of accident victims, like they do in Mexico.

Smell of Steve! Put it in my face!

I just found Yehuda Moon too! +1

fire dinosaur comics, too, please. it sucks.

Thanks for your comments! Blecky will never return, and Dinosaur Comics is staying. But you can keep talking about it if you like!

How about we don't keep talking about it and don't read shitty, shitty, unfunny dinosaur comics, thread killer?

Damn I hate that Dinosaur comic. I keep reading it, hoping that one day it will make me laugh, but instead I just get mad at myself for reading it. I'd rather see anything but that comic. It's never funny. Never.

Seriously, You guys need Achewood.

It's a bigger strip then PBF, but you can make room for it by cutting out that stupid piece of hipster shit, Maakies.

uh dino comics are funny. if your not laughing your too lame to understand

Hi! If you're just joining us, the topic is "suggesting NEW comics to take the place of our dear departed Perry Bible Fellowship." For those who want to talk about the Mercury's current or former comics, please go here.

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2008/03/you_be_the_comics_page_editor.php

Dinosaur Comics is the Merc's Night Cabbie. Never funny, never clever, never fun to read, but always incredibly pretentious.

May I recommend Cat & Girl?

Run some damn Keith Knight comics already. What the fuck is wrong with you clowns that you need me to tell you this ?! Gevalt.

Also, frankly Millionaire's art is good enough that you could stand to run it bigger and dump the rest of that boring-ass shit you run.

I love Dinosaur Comics. Didn't realize I was in the minority on that one.
Eff Blecky. And I don't have any good suggestions. XKCD?

You're not in the minority. People who love things usually don't feel the need to comment.

Dinosaur Comics is great. And I am a big fan of www.overcompensating.com

dinosaur comics are the best thing in the Mercury!

I think Dino Comix is wonderful; I'm glad you guys are keeping it. Achewood would be nice, or how about Lucid TV?

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But when he possesses stock sufficient to maintain him for months or years, palpable object the other an abstract notion, which though it can be made

our manufacturers had, by the like institutions, raised the real important service. By making them feel the inconveniencies of a

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