Your Alien Logic Confuses Me
I guess Marmaduke is sort of like Gil Thorpe, in that once you start nitpicking it, you can't go back. Also, the title character in both is big and flatheaded.
A few notes about the selection above:
1) You will have to click to enlarge it
2) It's not the entire strip. If you are that interested, you can go to the Marmaduke page.
OK, so the gist is this alien, which looks remarkably like a 1950s sci fi robot, comes down to Earth, and its only contact with a live being is with -- CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? -- Marmaduke!! Of course, this gives the alienbot the wrong idea about what life on Earth is really like. FUN. NY.
My nitpick is with the fourth panel above. The alienbot says, "Send word: Earth is occupied by subhuman creatures with limited vocabulary, walk on four legs, and are covered with hair and live in primitive housing." First, terrible sentence structure, Mr. Alienbot! Shouldn't there at least be a "who" before "walk on four legs"? Yes, there should. The sentence as written is incorrect. But, since it is an alien, who PROBABLY doesn't speak English as a first language, I'll let it slide.
My main nitpick: Clearly this alien feels Marmaduke is representative of all living being on Earth (the "humor" is that we know this is a false assumption! HA HA!). The alienbot does not know humans exist, so why does he have a name for them ("human") and how can he compare Marmaduke, and rank him as subhuman, if he does not have a human to compare him to?
Marmaduke is just not logical.
Are the Marmaduke creators telling us there is human life elsewhere in the universe??? Why, that is UNPROVEN! Why is it my comics page? Marmaduke should be teaching us intelligent design.
So, I am still looking for the answer to my personal Marmaduke challenge, but in the meantime, April Patterson has suggested another challenge: Caption the lazy Marmaduke panel. Good luck!
posted by big al at 8:34 PM
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Since Marmaduke's house is in the back yard of a much larger, much more elaborate structure, I'm assumiong that alien/robot thingie must be extremely nearsighted.
And since he knows that there are humans, but nothing else about them, I'm assuming that the creature is following up a previous recon visit by another alien, who had forgotten his camera.
And since I'm sitting here defending Marmaduke, I'm assuming that I've gone totally and completely batshit loony.
Oh, looks like "ol' unpredictable Marm" is going something semi-active. Hula Hoops. Dogs playing with hula hoops. That's not funny, Brad Anderson.
I'm.... I'm flabbergasted. In all of my entire life, I've never once seen a Sunday Marmaduke. I didn't even know they existed. My paper has always just carried the Mon-Sat, and I always just assumed it didn't come out on Sundays; that even the creators knew that it's just too lame a strip to try and put into more then one panel a day. I..... I may cry, now.
-Matt Estes
Oh Matt, Matt, poor Matt.
That's not even the half of it. Literally. Big Al only excerpted like a quarter of Sunday's Marmaduke. Like the dog itself, the Sunday strip is large and in charge.
Once you're over your tears, contemplate this: My paper runs PRINCE VALIANT on Sunday. PRINCE FREAKING VALIANT!!!!!
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