EDITORIAL - Cartoon strip “Blondie” is celebrating its 75th anniversary, but instead of feting it we should condemn it for defiling our comic pages with the sinister forces of the occult.Here is the proof: Blondie and Dagwood’s son Alexander, born in 1934, and their daughter Cookie, born in 1941, stopped aging when they became teenagers. Blondie and Dagwood themselves are frozen forever in their early 40’s.
This unholy, Dorian Gray-like existence is, of course, diametrically opposed to the natural law. One can only imagine what the years should have done to Dagwood’s already hideous coiffure (for my American readers, that's hairdo). And it borders on cruelty to subject the Bumstead “children” to the raging hormones of puberty for half a century.
Do not celebrate this comic strip. Shun it; eschew it; in fact, shred it as soon as the newspaper is delivered. Or so help us all.
