stupid computers!

This one had been in the pile for a while before I got around to it. The artist had, according to Lambiek, been a staff artist for the Iger studio back in the golden age and had worked on Sheena, etc, which explains a great deal about his artistic style. Thank god he's actually from that vintage and not some cranky nostalgia-crazed baby boomer desperate to shove "the good old days" down everybody's throat.



The comic itself is a total curiosity, a computer science institute hiring a 40s style cartoonist to illustrate a promotional comic about 'the high tech field of the future'. It's so contrary to common sense that you pore through the entire comic hoping for a whiff of irony or the smallest speck of self-awareness. Nope, not there. The incongruous superhero, the really disturbing Mr. Computer mascot, the dumb-as-rocks story... it all ads up to zero.

What happened to the BCSI adds a layer of sadness to the whole story; the place has been bulldozed, leaving legions of disgruntled former students, who still owe thousands of dollars in student loans, throwing around terms like "wasted my life" and "class-action suit". Avoid these "trade schools" kids.

Anyway, get what fun you can out of the old fashioned artwork and the self-insertion School President character in today's Stupid Comics!!