I've been impressed by the quality of Get Fuzzy for a while now, but in recent weeks, it seems that it has really hit its stride. For those of you unfamiliar with the strip by Darby Conley, the setup is something that could have gotten boring very fast. I mean, a comic about a dog and a cat and their master is sort of old now and it doesn't get very good mojo from Garfield. In fact, most comics get bad mojo from Garfield.
And yet, Darby Conley found a niche that is infinitely interesting. He made his characters very expressive, and the world they occupy is also quite detailed, and it is that very attention to detail that I most admire. There was a few weeks back in late 2005-early 2006 where he had an arm injury and the art style of the strip was greatly simplified, so it became very easy to see just how much work goes into each panel of the comic daily.
Over the past few months, there has also been an influx of new characters, each with a distinctive personality that allows the three main characters to play off them. Whether it is the Brit cat Mac Manc McManx, Shakespug, Foodar or any of the other strange characters that now inhabit that little apartment building on Boston's Longwood Avenue, they all bring something new to the experience and it is a joy to read.
I look forward to reading the comics every day now, and in a comic strip world without Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, well, that is saying something.
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