Don't take comic strip too seriously

Editor:

For a newspaper that will run strip bar ads, Playboy magazine ads, anti-abortion inserts, and gambling ads, I find it humorous that you would get so shaken up over a little comic about a well-known sports celebrity (read: Joe McLean). The comic was about his basketball future. He said it himself that his basketball career had ended when they lost in Denver. The comic said nothing about his future outside of basketball. Everyone who is a fan of Wildcat basketball knows that Joe plays his heart and guts out for the team. However, the hardcore sports fans also know about his flaws.

You are all forgetting that this is a comic strip. If we were to take every comic strip in the Wildcat seriously, you could say that Campus Abalone belittles the Mt. Graham controversy; that the Cynic Route ridicules women who are not up to society's aesthetic standard; and that Feet of Clay makes fun of people who are balding.

And to those who have said Joe will make more money than the cartoonist (all those references to Joe making six figures, easy), that argument has as much validity as saying, "My daddy makes more than your daddy."

Michael Yu
architecture sophomore

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