I was super excited to see this comic up today at overduemedia; its actually the third strip in a continuing story line, but I found this the most applicable to our class, not to mention rather funny (and trust me, its even funnier if you’re familiar with the characters). Dewy is the youth/teen librarian with a love of graphic novels, gore and sci-fi. Tamara (the first character to speak) is the vegan, peace-loving children’s librarian. Mel is the rather conservative, always PC branch manager whose opinions are always contradicted by the events and people around her. So what’s funny? Well, I think the fact that the girls have several “bad” movies, which they clearly intend to watch. Since the description of the movies Tamara gives is highly contradictory to both women’s personalities, one can only assume the strip means to imply there is something “good” about these films, some deeper characteristic or value that attracts theese women to these films and keeps them watching. While they might be seen as “bad” by society, it might be, and I like to think, the case is that the films are so little known they garner little to no public attention, thereby regulating them to the realm of “bad.”
Hmmm…I wrote this awhile ago, but apparently hit save rather than publish and just now noticed it. No wonder I could never find this post on the feed!