Guilty pleasures

I know we all have these, I think my favorite guilty pleasure is reading soap opera comics. There a multiple opportunities to laugh, gawk, and snark at these specimens of comic. While there are many out there, I really only follow two: Rex Morgan MD, and Mary Worth.

These strips want to be taken seriously, but oh man they are laughably horrible sometimes. Most of them have been around for what seems like centuries, and I'm fairly convinced that the authors that write the strip only do it because they want to retire, but didn't get enough pension.

What takes the cake for these laughable strips is the illustrations. Whenever the text in the strip wants a nice picture to convey what the character is saying/doing/feeling it makes you wanna either facepalm, or laugh your guts out. Take today's Rex Morgan for example:

Forget your husband, look at that hunky statue in the background!

June is talking with a museum working about a book deal for her precocious little daughter, Sarah. While they are discussing the details, Rex has some news for June, but uh oh! It looks like the museum worker is smitten over Rex. Which is a common theme in this strip. I'm serious, everywhere Rex and June go, there is always some female that falls head over heels for this chiseled beauty. Rex goes and leaves a path of smitten females in his wake. When in reality, real women that read the strip find him about as attractive as an unsightly wart.

It's hard to find him attractive when he makes faces like this:

What we can conclude:

1. Rex is trying to make his face recede back into his skull

2. Rex is taking The Bible very literally (I'll just be quoting from memory here) "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out."

3. Rex is horny

4. Rex has some kind of skin pigmentation disease, and also his daughter Sarah is consumed some of Willy Wonka's gum that is a meal, and the dessert is a blueberry pie and ice cream, so she is turning into a blueberry. You can just picture the Jaws theme while Sarah is trying to prey on her unsuspecting dad.