Our Favorite Comic Strips from the Sunday, Feb. 1st "Washington Post:" Love WuMo's Pink Panther Strip

Greetings to our blog readers in Israel, Taiwan and Turkey..........

Welcome to another edition of "The Daily Vampire".......oh #$%&, that's our other blog!

We go back to Feb. 1st for our Sunday comic strips survey of comics in the Sunday "Washington Post," for this week's survey go to "The Daily Vampire:" http://www.nocturnalguy38.blogspot.com

For last week's comics, we really, really liked "Brewster Rockit: Space Guy," which featured a great gag about the title hero going back in time to fix up his mistake of not putting enough milk into his Captain Crunch cereal (pict. top).

"The Argyle Sweater" got third place for its look at non-endorsements by various cartoon characters, including skinny jeans by Fat Albert (voiced by Bill Cosby, we've been hearing his name a lot lately) and large bra by Olive Oyl, Popeye's love interest (pict. center).

The always hilarious Danish import "WuMo" came in fifth with a strip about the Pink Panther (pict. bottom)  taking it easy in the jungles of Tanzania as his fellow felines look on in wonder.

"Baldo," a Hispanic-centered comic strip which also appears in the "Miami Herald" features Baldo's dad listening in on what his son is listening to as he is doing homework. His dad makes a rude discovery (Bruno Mars, perhaps?!)......the strip came in eighth.

We also loved "Foxtrot," which finished fourth, as a father learns that when he son hears the word football, he thinks futbol, as in the type played by Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney as opposed to the type played by Peyton Manning, on Super Bowl Sunday, no less....

Here is our  top ten:

1) Brewster Rockit: Space Guy

2) Lio

3) The Argyle Sweater

4) Foxtrot

5) WuMo

6) Speed Bump

7) Pearls Before Swine

8) Baldo

 9) Reply All

10) Sherman's Lagoon

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http://www.baldocomics.com

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5) WUMO

My Ten Worst Films of 2009

This is meant to be a bit of a provacative list as I must profess that it is a stretch to proclaim that both "Avatar" and "District 9," as god-awful as they are, are WORSE than films like "The Final Destination" and "The Fourth Kind," particularly since both films made efforts to be good films and perhaps even more so because I am in a vast minority when it comes to people who despise those two films.

But, like all my lists, I chose this one carefully. It should be pointed out that "Paranormal Activity" was actually first made in 2007, but it did not get any real distribution until last year. At any rate, it really sucked!

It was also agonizing to see the basterdization of the wonderful "Pink Panther" cartoon, not to mention the films of the late great Peter Sellars. And, it is painful to see the once-great Steve Martin reduce himself to such lower depths.

Cameron Diaz (pictured here) gave the worst performance of the year in the horrific, sappy melodrama "My Sister's Keeper." But, she did redeem herself in "The Box," and thankfully she wasn't nominated for an Oscar for this part! (which I thought might actually happen, especially since Sandra Bullock got one for "The Blind Side.")


Here is the sure-to-controversial Worst Films of 2009 list. Alas, "Sherlock Holmes" just missed the cut!:

1. Avatar
2. District 9
3. The Final Destination
4. New Moon
5. My Sister's Keeper
6. The Fourth Kind
7. Paranomral Activity
8. The Pink Panther 2
9. The Unborn
10. Obsessed