Here's a brand of affirmative action I'm sure some on the right may enjoy: The L.A. Times comics page is going conservative.
The paper plans to add the painfully unfunny strip Mallard Fillmore -- already seen in the Daily News -- to its lineup next week. Also on tap: another conservative entry, "Prickly City."
Listen, I can get over the addition of a conservative strip. But there's gotta be something better than Mallard Fillmore, which not only doesn't pull off many laughs, but also just looks bad.
Most strips are just a shot of the main character, a Donald Duck-ish bird who works as a TV reporter, reading some rant off of a script. The strip has very little narrative, very few storylines and no real character development. (Say what you want about "Boondocks" and its anti-Bush spin, but that strip also has an ongoing narrative revolving around two young kids and their out-of-touch grandfather. And Doonesbury has populated itself with a huge cast of characters through the years, and doesn't always depend on politics for its storylines.)
UPDATE: We got the scoop, baby! Two of the Times' newer comic strips are being pulled in favor of "Mallard Fillmore" and "Prickly City."
Gone as of Monday is "Zack Hill," a pleasant strip by John Deering about a young boy (Zack) and his single mom, who opens her home to boarders (one, a Rush-loving rightie and the other, a left-leaning aging hippie) to pay the rent.
Then, on July 12, as the Times introduces "Prickly City," say farewell to "Grand Avenue," another decent entry, this one by San Diego Union-Tribune political cartoonist Steve Breen. "Grand Avenue" revolves around a sports-loving granny and her two young grandchildren.
Sorry, "Rex Morgan, M.D." stays.
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