Actually, Clumsy Carp suggested calling it a "hart," and Curls calls him a bootlicker.
I've tried manfully to refrain from quoting my favorite strips, because it just wouldn't end.
But it wasn't religion that made him lose his edge. When the strip was about cavemen, he was tapping a completely different vein of humor from everyone else, and he was exploring a wild country in an exhilarating way. Yeah, there were the Flintstones and other cave comedies (going back to some stop-motion silent animation by, I believe, Willis O'Brian), but those were all about modern life with stone and animal appliances. As long as BC wasn't about those, it was wildly amusing. When it became a look at the 70s with cavemen acting out the parts, it was still somewhat amusing, but on the path to obsolescence. Even jokes like Peter telling BC that we no longer believe the sun goes around the earth ("What does it go around?" "The United States.") are pretty funny. Being like everybody else limited him, though, and hurt the strip.
I'm not sure he was selfish, though. From everything I'm reading these past couple of days, he was generous with drawings and logos. When they were for civic organizations, he didn't demand royalties. His worldview was warped by his religion, but he was still a pretty good guy, as far as I can tell.
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I've tried manfully to refrain from quoting my favorite strips, because it just wouldn't end.
But it wasn't religion that made him lose his edge. When the strip was about cavemen, he was tapping a completely different vein of humor from everyone else, and he was exploring a wild country in an exhilarating way. Yeah, there were the Flintstones and other cave comedies (going back to some stop-motion silent animation by, I believe, Willis O'Brian), but those were all about modern life with stone and animal appliances. As long as BC wasn't about those, it was wildly amusing. When it became a look at the 70s with cavemen acting out the parts, it was still somewhat amusing, but on the path to obsolescence. Even jokes like Peter telling BC that we no longer believe the sun goes around the earth ("What does it go around?" "The United States.") are pretty funny. Being like everybody else limited him, though, and hurt the strip.
I'm not sure he was selfish, though. From everything I'm reading these past couple of days, he was generous with drawings and logos. When they were for civic organizations, he didn't demand royalties. His worldview was warped by his religion, but he was still a pretty good guy, as far as I can tell.