White, Ben – Snake Pit #10

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Snake Pit #10

Ok, I’m officially off the Snake Pit bandwagon. If you think I wasn’t on it before, go ahead and read those older reviews. As for Ben personally, I wish him the all the best in the world (as he seems from his strips to be a genuinely good guy, more than willing to point out his faults) and I would love to see comics from him in another format. But this three panel daily diary strip thing has worn out its welcome with me. Look, here’s the strip: go to work, drink, party, practice for a band, play in a band, go on tour, hang out with friends, make out with a girl, have a girl break his heart. Mix and repeat. Maybe it’s just me getting older and more fogeyish, but the fact that I could tear the covers off of all my Snake Pit books, black out the dates and you wouldn’t have any idea that they weren’t all done in the same year just depresses me. With this three panel format, he doesn’t really have the time to go into much of anything, and it’s obvious that he edits his troubles with the ladies down to a line or two. Wise, I’m sure, as he doesn’t change names and these people are going to see these strips sooner or later, but I as a reader don’t get much new out of that. Look, this is why I hate doing negative reviews. If I won a million dollars I’d throw a thousand of it to Ben just for the hell of it, and I hope he finds all the happiness in the world. I just wish he would try something different with his comics. $2