Today's Alley Oop - 27 April 2021

 Normally I've started my reviews by focusing on Joey's writing but with today's strip, it is fair to start with Lemon's artwork. And good golly is that first panel awful. Long-time posters on the old "Alley Oop" strip used to point out obvious drawing errors by 80+ year-old Jack Bender by saying "perspective", a wink to the constant harangue of frequent troll "Grande Lobo". But that panel is so messed up that you can't even say that because it doesn't even seem to have any perspective. Jonny tries to show the town as being in the distance but it takes more than the wavy cliff line to accomplish that. The large, smiley (!) "chrab" on the right negates that attempt as it appears to be on the save level as Garnet. And Garnet looks like he's shrunk down to a midget. Then you have the chrab on the left that is nothing more than a blue blob. Last, the remnants of the destroyed town have no detail at all. This was supposed to have been a town but it's just a few scratches. People like to put down artists by saying that third-graders can draw better than this but if a third-grader turned in a drawing like that, they would get a well-deserver "F".

How about today's writing? Well, if you can somehow believe that two blue crabs can destroy an entire town, I guess you can accept anything. But we still don't understand what is going on. Where did the chrabs come from? Why did they come to earth? Are the chrabs big? What kind of weapons do they use? Why do they care if people have fights? Are they everywhere on earth or just in the desert? Isn't the desert an odd place for chrabs to show up? I mean wouldn't Florida make more sense? How exactly do you pronounce "chrabs"? I'm going with chr-abs because why else would Joey add the "h". And the whole thing ends up with Oop talking about cooking the chrabs in butter, a joke which is par for the course.

Today's badly drawn lines: https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2021/04/27