I used to read the comics section in several newspapers, when I was a boy; but I could never quite g0t into Mary Worth, which wasn’t funny, contained no exotic locations or adventures, and didn’t seem–to me, at 12 years old–to be about anything.
I was surprised to discover the Mary Worth comic strip is still going strong. It made its debut in 1938 and it’s still here.
But wait a minute–has Mary gotten younger since the 1960s? Where have all her wrinkles gone (you could turn that into a song, I think)? I’d hardly recognize her. I thought only Merlin got younger as the years went by. Well, Obst, too–but he’s in denial about it.
Mary was always a yenta. Now she speaks as a pop psychiatrist. Did she take a correspondence course? Good grief: “needing a lifestyle change…” Comic strip characters shouldn’t talk like that. It’s not decent. Please don’t tell me Prince Valiant talks like that.
Well, there’s not much point being nostalgic about anything that insists on changing with the times, even if it becomes unrecognizable. Mary Worth has changed more than I have.
I’m sure I don’t want to know any more about it.
Only the name has remained the same.
She not only got young; she got svelte. She used to be plump and motherly.
Never heard of her, but for what I’ve just read, she reminds me of Dear Abby.
Seems the name is familiar, but I really don’t remember anything about it, and probably wasn’t interested enough to read it.
Ah, well, you were a Major Hoople fan…