My younger sister’s second grade “media” report (I remember when teachers wanted you to read books) on Ted Rall’s most recent comic strip. (Okay, okay, so it took some prompting.) The report is reprinted here in its entirety:

Ted Rall draws pictures. They are cartoons but they are not so funny I don’t think. Scooby Doo is a funny dog and he is a cartoon also. My friend Trevor makes funny faces and he can say zoinks like Shaggy and also Scooby. Funny dogs are funny but Ted Rall is not. He doesn’t have friends like Shaggy and Velma. And, he thinks subverting reader expectation as a means toward adding a layered complexity to his comic’s narrative texture is somehow clever and useful. But Christ — how played is that? Hello? Did this guy miss the entire oeuvre of Altman? Shit, I can think of a couple of episodes of “Square Pegs” that are more successful than this at suspending the punchline until the final “act”! Scooby Doo is a male dog who is funny. Ted Rall is nothing but a hack be-atch.

Ah, from the mouths of babes…

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