I came across this mildly amusing new comic strip last November, during a visit to Chicago, while reading the Tribune funny papers.
About a cute, mildly neurotic, young married w/o kids Jewish couple – Hannah and Max – from the Upper West Side of Manhattan. And their friends, relatives, etc.
Sample joke from the Thanksgiving strip: Max’s Mom is presiding over a groaning holiday board, full family in attendance. “You see before you, children, my expression of love for you! …Oh, except for that little dish of asparagus vinaigrette…that’s HANNAH’s expression of love.”
Okay, so it ain’t “L’il Abner” or “Calvin and Hobbes.” But I LIKED it, gosh darn it, enough to check it out a couple times a week at the King Features website. And Hannah was a Babe.
Now it’s vanished! Any word from Chicago on whot hoppened? Or from any other town where the newspaper carried it?
[sub]Damn, nobody ever opens any of my %#@&%#$ threads…[/sub]
Anyone else ever noticed this strip? Anyone LIKE it? Anyone hate it? Anyone want to discuss?
I read the Trib daily, the funnies sometimes, but I never even noticed this one come and go. You’d a thunk I’d have seen it.
[sup]1[/sup][sub]I opened this thread solely because you started it. Here’s a smilie for my buddy.:)–HS, lowly member UI fan club, Chicago branch.[/sub]
My wife hated it. I just mildly disliked it. Don’t miss it at all, tho the replaced it with a piece of crap that is just as bad. Most of their recent additions have been pretty weak. Bad enough to makes me yearn for the return of Fred Bassett.
The Hots were a couple of clueless, self-absorbed twits. She blatantly manipulated him, and he complacently complied.
The high point was probably when the mediocre artist drew them in bed with the covers around their waists and forgot to include her nightgown, essentially drawing her topless (tho nipple-less!) If I knew you had a thing for her, I would have saved it for ya.
The Trib is really shitting on it’s comics readers. Last Sunday they posted a notice that 3 or 4 of the regular comics would be included only every other week due to “space considerations.” Oh yeah - space considerations didn’t preclude them from devoting a WHOLE PAGE of the 6 page color comics section to ads!
What pisses me off the most is that you were in town last Nov and didn’t give me a ring. Don’t you love me anymore?
I thought the strip was kind of eh. I mean, it was kind of like “Mad About You.” A D.I.N.K. (dual income no kids) couple living it up in the Big City. The work that Nina writes and draws tends to have more of an edge to it.
I actually only noticed the strip when they took it away. It was strange to see a strip disappear and just a lame excuse (and lamer replacement) posted in its place.
Like when Hannah spiked Max’s aftershave with mail-order sex phermones just before they went to a big party, to see if it would turn him into a “chick magnet.”
It didn’t work; she later realized that his breath reeked of onion dip.
