Alley Oop - 12 April 2021

I'm always irritated with comic strips where the characters talk in ways that no real people do. You know what I mean if you read strips like "Funky Winkerbean" or "9 Chickweed Lane". The former gets bogged down in rambling sentences and tries to create new slang words like "vendo" or "car date" or "bio-dad". The latter is weighted down with overbearing pomposity and likes to use words that haven't been used in decades if not centuries. Today's Oop has a great example when Doc Wonmug says he is reading a "longform piece" rather than a story. When's the last time you heard someone say "longform peice"? I'm guessing never. Ironically, this leads to today's punchline about whether the cartoon they are looking at is supposed to be funny. Ironic because that is exactly how most of us feel when we read this strip every day.

Today's laugh-filled episode: https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2021/04/12

(P.S. Does anyone know what has happened to Wootie? I've jumped in from time-to-time when he hasn't posted his daily review but it has now been a week. No comments on "Gun Law" either.)