Dem Blues
I just read a very beautiful, very sad Legolas/Gimli story. Why was it sad? Because Gimli died on the way to Valinor which he probably did in the books, Tolkien just didn’t want to give us more bad news. Which was nice of him. It allowed for us to have hope that just maybe someone had a happy ending.
But alas, that just has me blue for the night. I’ve been meaning to post about Foxtrot and my sadness over that. Yes I know he’s not quitting the strip but the dailies is pretty close to! Even if he comes back to the dailies in a couple years, I know that ultimately it will end and I’ll never get any new Jason’s-a-total-geek situations. I’ve been reading it for half my life. 13-14 years. Calvin and Hobbes ended when I was fairly young, I have still never read allll the Bloom County books, and I gave up on Garfield a decade ago. I don’t even remember when The Far Side ended.
It’s just never happened to me with a comic strip. TV shows and bands and books and the like don’t usually go on for 19 years so I should be allowed not to be used to it. Right?
The Simpsons better bloody well give us 3 more years. It’ll take that long to steel myself.
*sigh*
