Johnny Hart's B.C. should not have been given fifty days instead of years

Arnold Buckley
   Johnny Hart's B.C. caveman comic strip is one of the dullest comic strips ever conceived by an artist and the sad fact it has been allowed to taint newspapers and the comic industry is contemptible. I bought a book for research soon to be donated to a local goodwill of his fifty years of drawing this absolute crap. His short worded strip is often unfunny and few of the items he paradoys actually has anything to do with being in the time period of B.C. The storylines are lame and his characters totally uninteresting with crudely drawn prehistoric people that the reader can barely distinguish from one another in this strip.
 The strip is suppose to be in ancient flintstone times but all the gags for the most part pertain to modern cultural implications. In the  fifty year time period this crumb of a comic artist has been allowed to print, there are endless modern gags that are all unfunny and irrelevant for a comic strip about cavemen. I find it prodigious that this strip was actually allotted fifty years in printed syndication. Hart seems to have wished he could of drawn a space comic strip because looking through the book you would be amazed at how many alien and other planet panels show up in this detestable comic strip.
Much of the social commentary that Hart seems to draw up just fit in with this strip as well as a Native American arrow would fit in an English crossbow. I noticed numerous animal comics within this comic and in this Johnny Hart does a good job. few comic artists can successfully put a whole other absurd boring comic strip with
in another comic strip as his animal strips rarely interact with the cavemen comics within B.C. I mean if he really wanted to draw an odd animal world strip with goofy looking birds and ants why didn't he just scrap the B.C. idea and just draw a whole new fucking comic strip. Many comic artists do this at times when material for their original masterpiece drys up and perhaps none was better than Charles Schulze. I knew Charles Schulze. Charles Schulze was a friend of mine and Johnny Hart is no Charles Schulze despite being given the same amount of years to publish this junk. Although there were many bad strips Hart did leave one parting shot and insult to the world shortly after 9/11 in this classic strip that many in other parts of the world in  believing this dangerous, murderous cult.

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