Attention Stale, Old People
Your taste in comics is just as old and stale as you are!

So... the Los Angeles Daily News just cut some comics from its line-up... Let's hear from the comments section and maybe see why you're wrong about everything. The following are quotes from the comments left on Friendly Fire, the Daily News Opinion blog.

What have you done with my beloved Mallard Fillmore? And Garfield, Beattle Bailey. And no Dick Tracy anymore. He's been around forever.

No Dick Tracy? He's been around forever? Well, women didn't vote for a really long time either, but I'm glad that changed. Just because it's been around forever doesn't mean it's good for people, like your opinion.

Does the Daily News leadership understand that the comics section is a major draw for many of their readers? I guess not. This is the most horrendous, awful, unbelievable change I have ever seen a major newspaper make. If you are competing against the L.A. Times, you just lost. If you are competing against the internet, you just lost. If this is the direction the Daily News is taking, I don't want it anymore.

I think if you were competing for Drama Queen of the Week Award, you just won. Seriously... these comics are awful. Beatle Bailey? I understand the connection to the baby boomers... he's in the military... they survived some wars, maybe even fought in them... but MY GOD. Enough is enough. You should be happy that you have outlived this comic, because it means you're living in an era that believes in progress and freedom.

And isn't that why you fought the wars?

Please bring back Beetle Bailey, Garfield & Hagar.

... "So I can continue leading a dull, unsatisfying life."

If you want to try out new comic strips try adding an extra page to check them out, not deleting other comics. The new, replacement comics are poorly drawn and not compelling. Hello internet, where I can get what I want and reduce my carbon footprint by no longer having hundreds of pages of paper delivered to me that I never read. You messed with the four pages that I did read.

Now that you've screwed that up, why do I need your paper?

Darn right. You definitely don't need the paper anymore. You weren't using it for building logical arguments. If you're only reading the paper for the comics, then you are wasting paper... You meant to say that you wish they had cancelled all the NEWS because you can read that online, but you need the comics in the paper, or something like that, I'm sure.

And for the most intelligible comment posted, click here. He picks apart in a very effective way why some comics need to go, some stay, and why some just aren't the right fit.

To sum up my vendetta-filled rant, it frustrates me that the comics page that should be drawing in younger readers is consistently filled by comics that the older readers won't let die until they die. I live in Sacramento, and the Bee does a good job of finding a balance between young and old, publishing Lio/Pearls Before Swine/Get Fuzzy/Bizarro as a way of appealing to the witty/humorous/awesome youth, but still plugging along with the older generation's Beatle Bailey/Hagar/For Better or For Worse.

If you really want change, you need to make intellectual arguments. Saying that Diesel Sweeties is a bad fit for the newspaper because its pixelated style does not cross over is one such intellectual argument.

Saying that Dick Tracy has been around forever, and thusly deserves to stay forever? Not so much.

I am a young person. I understand why some old comics have merit, but I also understand that most old comics are still around because they're familiar and change is such a scary, scary thing.

Anyone else have some thoughts on the matter? Or am I really the only person who still reads every comic on the comics page every day?