Wednesday, October 7, 1998: Haircuts: $5

[NonsenseWords]

Ozy's Haircut, part one.



And you know what? This looks mighty familiar. Where have I seen something like this before...

[Happy Rutabegas year]

and thu, Ozy unwittingly began his annual hair-loss curse.

You may think it's a CH rip-off now NW, but just you wait until we get further through this series ;D

[NonsenseWords]

Oh, I... I'm aware of the generalities about the shaving fetish, and quite frightened of the future. But this particular arc is definitely a Calvin & Hobbes ripoff.

[Happy Rutabegas year]

no.
the whole "shaving fetish" is bullshit that /b/tards just joke about, DCS is dumb but she's nowhere near as pants up as ED would lead you to believe. As a general rule of thumb, you should consider that for everything you read on ED.

It's a running gag that was pretty funny, in which Ozy has a family curse placed on him to lose his hair every year. nothing sexual.

[Arloest]

I dunno I remember seeing something on her FA account that basically confirmed it was a fetish.

Also, I see that both the O&M and C&H strips are about hair cutting, but other than that I don't really see what the 'rip-off' is.

[Happy Rutabegas year]

yeah but not within the actual OM series >:(

I thought we agreed that we would stay more on the "not blatantly hating on DCS" side of the DC line.

[NonsenseWords]

It's not hating to say somebody has a fetish. I don't happen to agree with it, but seriously, whatever floats your boat. And I actually didn't read DCS's ED page; I stay the hell away from ED (I really don't appreciate having pornographic ads foisted on me just so I can read a cheap joke at somebody's expense). Just... DCS has images of shaven Raine Dog, a shaven skunk girl, fanart of other furry characters shaven-- not hard to make connections. And it crops up pretty much yearly in O&M, if the arc titles across the years are anything to go by. I didn't mean any offense by mentioning it (I did mean a joke by saying 'I'm scared').

I know it never gets perverted, it's always a joke (poor Ozy), and it's treated very silly. I'm just not a fan of shaven Ozy's design and not really looking forward to arcs about his humiliation.

[Muninn]

Remembering the Calvin and Hobbes storyline and laughing right now.

I can't help it if you've got funny bumps on your head that make the scissors go wonky. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE FUNNY BUMPS ON YOUR HEAD IN A MINUTE!

[Feefers]

It's a running gag that was pretty funny, in which Ozy has a family curse placed on him to lose his hair every year.

YMMV on that however, I found this "joke" really pathetic and not at all funny in the slightest oh look he's bald.

... ... ... and?

[Tom_Radigan]

It's a running gag that was pretty funny, in which Ozy has a family curse placed on him to lose his hair every year.

YMMV on that however, I found this "joke" really pathetic and not at all funny in the slightest oh look he's bald.

... ... ... and?

This particular strip is funny, particularly as Millie has paid Ozy for the privilege of cutting his hair, and five dollars is no chicken feed to a small child, even nowadays.

Of course the concept of Ozy being shaved all the time did get old pretty quickly, as did Lucy pulling away the football in the Peanuts strip, especially when Schulz ran out of accompanying punchlines. Schulz should have retired his strip in the 1980's; he had run oput of good gags by then.

[Bocaj Claw]

I think the main difference between Calvin and Hobbes and Ozy and Millie's take on this is that Calvin holds the delusion that having his hair cut by a tiger/stuffed animal can turn out well whereas Ozy is filled with fear and despair as soon as he realizes what kind of storyline he's in. Also, the paying Ozy part.

As for my mileage, the annual hair loss thing was at different times genuinely funny and overused. As far as my memory can remember by using memories, the one where the curse rebounds on Millie was particularly humorous.

Tragically, it is true. Kids cut each other's hair.

WAY TO COMMENTARY THERE. I HAVE REAL INSIGHT INTO THE CREATIVE PROCESS NOW.

[Liz]

I think he was also artistically influenced by C&H too. Ozy is wearing the same cloth thing as Calvin.
THIEVERY I SAY.

Anyways. I actually thought this arc was amusing when I first read it. Later, as the gag runs on, it's not as amusing. Just like everyone else said. v0v

[Muninn]

Of course the concept of Ozy being shaved all the time did get old pretty quickly, as did Lucy pulling away the football in the Peanuts strip, especially when Schulz ran out of accompanying punchlines. Schulz should have retired his strip in the 1980's; he had run oput of good gags by then.

Both the hair loss and Lucy pulling the football away were annual gags. If they were done more frequently I could see your reasoning but once a year is fine to me.

[Happy Rutabegas year]

you really have to put it into context. Now that all the strips are online together, you could look at every single hair-cut strip or every football strip right next to each other, and it would seem like DCS tries to make the entire comic be about cutting hair. But in reality she wasn't at all, and it wasn't that big of a deal.

[nickspoon]

The whole shaving thing was, I think, funnier before it was recognised in the strip itself.