Geeky goodness
My morning routine includes, before I get to the New York Times, taking in a few of the newspaper comics that I most like: Doonesbury (of course), as well as Zits (life with/as a 16-year-old boy — whatever happened to the movie version), Stone Soup (the adventures of two kinda-real families), Heart of the City (a precocious 5-year-old diva and her geeky best friend Dean), and above all Monty.
Ah, Monty. How shall I praise thee? Let me count the ways as an <ol>ordered list</ol>.
- Monty is an unattractive middle-aged man
- He has no visible means of support for most of the time, although sometimes he works in stores or has short-term stints working on documentaries. His jobs are basically just a background for humorous situations to develop. Most of them last for just one comic-strip.
- I think his ambition is to be a comic-strip
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