Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter J. Kreitchet, a comic book specialist at the store, says 83 packs have been sold during the first week. He terms that figure "respectable...
Total morons Beavis and Butt-head and their annoying laugh already have an album, a hit television show on MTV and successful comic books. But even student fans of the cartoon duo say they think their new trading cards--like their mind-numbing "huh-huh" laughs--suck...
With Tracy's younger sister Dinah (Jessica Yager) providing amusing, if at times annoying, comic relief, the play also sports a sense of humor to accompany its romantic and social entanglements. Yager seems a bit too comic at times, with her pig-tails and "rooty-tooty" lingo, but the scene in which she entertains the two reporters is one of the funniest of the play. As the lecherous old Uncle William, Greg Clayman is also quite amusing, and the skillful makeup job of Rosetta Lee makes his protrayal even more convincing. His handling of the standard mistaken-identity plot...
...There is life beyond Bart. The scamp was the show's first star; his ripostes ("Eat my shorts") became T-shirt slogans. Bart is still the richest Simpsons character, but the purview has expanded to include all of Springfield, with 50 or so comic figures, from the Kwik-E-Mart's Apu Nahasapeemapetilan to the Kennedyesque Mayor Quimby to Krusty the Clown and his sadistic cartoon cohorts Itchy & Scratchy -- a wonderfully congested cosmos each week...
...After all these years, they can still surprise you. Part of the fun of watching is trying to figure out what the main plot line will be; the first few minutes of any episode are so packed with comic detail that the story could go in any of a dozen directions. This is one show whose writers seem to have too many good ideas...