In The City, City Of Philadelphia

I don’t really know anyone who reads the comics page anymore. But I do. (This is one of many things that makes me, erhm, unique. Yeah, that’s a nice way to put it.) I don’t read the comics page to enjoy the comics, though; I read the comics page because it’s absolutely awful. Seriously. I assume there’s some sort of rule that a comic has to be abso-effing-lutley terrible.

There are a couple of okay, even decent ones, but usually I read the comics page and go, “Hmm. Garfield was one of the best comics today.” Okay, that’s unfair to a lot of comics, but you get the point.

As such, let’s take a look at yesterday’s Curtis.

Yep, that famous rapper from Philly, “Compton Kaheem.” The Comics Curmudgeon, who I wrote about in a Top 5 last year, frequently notes that Curtis appears to be written by a 70-year-old white man. Which seems pretty true.

Yesterday he noted the distance between Compton and Philadelphia, but there’s another problem, too. If “Compton Kaheem” is already known as the best rapper to come out of Philly — at least by a whatever-year-old boy — he probably came up during the height of the East Coast-West Coast rap feud. He might as well have been named Dallas Cowboys Kaheem.

Battle of the sexes [The Comics Curmudgeon]
Curtis 02.05.2007 [Houston Chronicle]