Boondocks to hit TV

**dog$** · 20 Apr 2004, 06:30 AM

I remember when the strip began national syndication; it was so full of promise. It provided an appreciable number of cast members with the promise of more on the way, looked relatively unlike anything else, and seemed to have enough variance in content to sustain itself for a long time. It was also at this time when a TV series was hinted at, but nothing concrete was ever set.

Now, McGruder doesn't even draw the fucking thing anymore.

Poor Jen Seng.

**MVS** · 20 Apr 2004, 06:45 AM

24 minutes of that? Piss the hell off.

**Josh** · 20 Apr 2004, 06:45 AM

The strip is not, has not been, and never will be funny.

End of fucking discussion.

**Bacon McShig** · 20 Apr 2004, 04:17 PM

Poor Jen Seng.

What? She draws it now?

Guess she got tired of drawing SD Guiles.

**rezo** · 20 Apr 2004, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by MVS

24 minutes of that? Piss the hell off.

Eh, it may do well though. Randomly shouting "holla" seems to be popular among the kids these days.

**sleeve** · 20 Apr 2004, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by dog$

I remember when the strip began national syndication; it was so full of promise. It provided an appreciable number of cast members with the promise of more on the way, looked relatively unlike anything else, and seemed to have enough variance in content to sustain itself for a long time. It was also at this time when a TV series was hinted at, but nothing concrete was ever set.

Now, McGruder doesn't even draw the fucking thing anymore.

Poor Jen Seng.

That about sums it up.

The Boondocks used to be a good strip, but McGruder sold out waaaaay too quickly.

Originally Posted by ssbomberman

wow a lot of hate for this strip. I think it's true genius. Great writing. It's not LOL funny...and it's not to the level of Dilbert or Peanuts or some of the classic strips -- Bloom County being the greatest ever written.

Fixed.

**Calliander** · 20 Apr 2004, 04:48 PM

Bloom County was definitely the best political strip.

Calvin & Hobbes, owns everything otherwise, however.

Boondocks was very funny in the beginning, but it dropped off quickly. McGruder really doesn't even draw it anymore? How can he still make fun of BET? That lowers almost all of his credibility to nil. A cartoon series based on the strip will do terribly because the strip had few readers to begin with.

**nixhex311** · 21 Apr 2004, 08:58 PM

I never got the boondocks in my local paper, so I read some online. Some of them were pretty funny. Not the best comic in the papers right now, but much better than a lot of the ones in my local paper. But I'm not sure if it would work as a show.