As to what the strip is about is anybody's guess. True, I only looked at a few strips (I looked about 20 of them), but even with these samples I can't get what the characters are. It's apparent that Horsey has little understanding on how to work around comic strips compared to doing an editorial cartoon. So its short life is understandable.
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Yes, I remember Boomer's Song, a lame attempt to appeal to a perceived "demographic," namely "upwardly-mobile urban professionals," or something like that. Did it really last for three years?
Unlike Mallard Fillmore, an equally lame and unfunny strip, Boomer could not get by as a "balance" to some other strip.
Good riddance!
Horsey's art has always been far above his writing. It's just not as obvious in a political cartoon, where the ideas are often floating around in the general debate and discussion and simply need a twist. It's easier there to pick up a fairly basic concept, team it with great art and come out with something that stands well above the average. Horsey's strong art allows him to add a lot of silliness that helps him elevate even simple ideas above the fray -- for instance, http://tinyurl.com/4jmfav
But he doesn't have the writing chops to do a strip, where elements of character development and consistency make much greater demands. (It could be argued that he is the anti-McCoy, since Glenn McCoy's comic strip is so far beyond his political panels -- he's a better writer than he is an artist.)
I always enjoyed looking at that strip, but not really reading it. The characters were so well drawn.
Reminds me a bit of a Japanese manga, but those are usually more interesting and funny in their plots.
He needs to team up with someone to do the storyline. A comic that looks that good with a good storyline would do exceptionally well.
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