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Nowadays nobody would accuse newspaper comic strips as being
hip and edgy. In fact as superhero
movies based on comic book characters make billions and the graphic novel has
become a respected art, newspaper comic strips remain bland or even worse ( IE:
facing cutbacks thanks to the declining influence of the newspaper) here are
some storyline ideas that can make old stodgy comic strips hip again.
Blondie: Dagwood wakes up one day and figures out that his life is a repeating series of the same gags over and over again and that his family has
not even aged in decades. Then his wife puts him on a low-carb (no sandwiches) diet
and Dagwood cannot take it anymore so he leaves his family without warning to
become a drifter/hobo and travels the
nation looking for meaning in today's Lana Del Ray and Doritos Locos Tacos kind of world. Meanwhile absent her husband‘s salary,
Blondie is forced to sell the house and movie in with a devious Mr. Dithers who
wants her all to himself. Also
Dagwoods’s mailman misses his routine of running right into Dagwood when he is
leaving for work and starts to run in to random people as a way to find HIS own search for meaning his life. The first year of comic strips would end with a divorced Blondie
agreeing to marry Dithers. Dagwood later sees a story about it in a newspaper that he was using to sleep on. Will he make it on time? Will the mailman find the help he
needs?
Dennis the Menace: Since Breaking Bad has become so popular
how about a story where Mr .Wilson finds out he has cancer he wants to make
sure that his wife Martha will be financially secure so he does the only sane thing and starts cooking meth with
Dennis. Along with Dennis’ pal “skinny Joey” they have a number of loveable adventures that will make you
believe that Mr. Wilson is the man who knocks.
Peanuts: This classic comic strip ended in the year 2000 and
has been reprinting strips ever since that time, but how about a hip version
for today’s internet kids? Instead of
Charlie Brown being hated for being a blockhead he is hated for his lackluster
Tumblr page and the bad lighting in his pro-brony youtube videos. Instead of Schroeder
liking classical music he is into dubstep. Instead of Lucy pulling away the football from
Charlie Brown she beats him in various
online zynga games. And of course
Snoopy would be a lolcat. And over time
we would have animated specials like “lol ur acting like a noob Charlie
Brown”
