I dropped "The Big Picture" comic strip from my comics page, along with some other strips. The other strips I dropped hadn't been updated since I added them. The reason I dropped "The Big Picture," though, was because it had really stopped being funny. Now, before you get on my case about not all comic strips being funny, let me explain. I'm really not sure what "The Big Picture" was supposed to be in the first place, other than a sounding board for its artist, Lennie Peterson. While that still isn't a problem, it became increasingly offensive and less entertaining to me. The final straw was Peterson's attitude regarding people who would e-mail him disagreeing with his opinions: he called them "stoopid."
I seem to remember an expression something to the effect of "Why offend people with style when you can offend them with substance?" Well, "The Big Picture" lacks both, but most importantly, it started lacking substance a long time ago.
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