Abby and Norma --- by Erika Hammerschmidt --- Jul 13, 2007

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TEXT OF COMIC:

I'm fed up with people saying that we have to have good role models in modern entertainment.

Good role models don't make good stories! Were Hamlet and Macbeth good role models? Was Raskolnikov? Was Holden Caulfield?

If people modeled their lives after the protagonists of the greatest stories in history, the world would destroy itself within a year. Everyone knows you're not supposed to use fictional characters as role models!

I say modern entertainment should be just like entertainment during the greatest periods of artistic history-- full of depraved criminals, blithering idiots, raving madmen, and tortured, miserable losers.

What about nerdy, intellectual college girls who sit at tables all day having philosophical discussions?

We'll find our way in somehow.